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(AgapePress) - A well-known Internet safety expert says staggering numbers of young people are involved in the dangerous world of cyber-sex -- but most parents are not even aware it's an issue affecting their children.Eighty-seven percent of more than 2,500 university and college students polled across Canada admit to having virtual sex over Instant Messenger, web cams, or the telephone. The 20-question survey was conducted by Toronto-based CampusKiss.com, an online dating community for students.Internet safety expert and advocate Donna Rice-Hughes, president of the group Enough Is Enough, says results among American students are no different."The majority of kids --...

Cyber women test what's real By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter Software cyberbabes, created by powerful computers, sophisticated modelling packages and active imaginations are getting extremely human-like. Rene Morel's 3D model has a very human face Virtual cyberbabes are used in advertising campaigns, hit shoot-em-up games, and the pop industry, from Lara Croft to virtual pop idols, T-Babe and Diki or DK-96. Some of the best 3D models around are currently on show at an exhibition which has just opened in London called Perfectly Real: Women in Bits and Bytes. But they raise questions about what people...

Machines are social before being technical.1      The skin trade it seems has gone electronic. In the third week of 1996, W. H. Smith's, England's largest book vendor, removed all the pornography from their magazine racks. Their explanation: there is virtually no demand for the stuff. While we might be tempted to speculate on the role politics played in W. H. Smith's decision, rather we should see in their apparently disingenuous explanation the truth of contemporary porn consumption: that demand for it is in fact virtual. The virtual realityof porn today is that, with about 70,000 sex-related Web sites...