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XI.5 September + October 2004
Page: 75
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Human computer (sexual) interactions


Authors:
Mark Blythe, Mark Jones

There are few better examples of the pervasion of computing technology into private life than the proliferation of human-computer sexual interactions. Although the HCI community has become increasingly interested in leisure contexts, entertainment, emotion, affect, enjoyment and fun, it tends to ignore the fact that one of the ways many people have fun with their computers is by accessing pornography. Indeed pornography may well be the only reason that some people own home computers at all [8]. "Sex" and "porn" have been the most frequent Internet search terms since the Web became widely available, and terms relating to the…




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