In the early days of its advent, the Internet and other virtual environments also seemed to provide some new forms of sexual identity and gender identity. In the Niba and electronic bulletin boards, users can choose their gender and sexual orientation according to their own wishes to build an online role.
Despite this, this new world seems to be familiar to people. Even in the mud bar that they think are progressive, most characters' self-expression shows that they come from the stereotype of heterosexual men:
"LambdaMOO users shape themselves or reshape themselves into some gender prototypes: a group of sharp-eyed and tall men, a virgin and prostitutes, a poet and athlete, a vampire, a dreamer, and a slave dealer, a slave."
Although the Internet is full of many possibilities on the surface, the search terms most requested on the Yahoo search engine are still "sexual". Playboy 's website also claims that its daily page clicks are as high as 1.4 million. This trend will continue as the Internet becomes more visible.
The old MUD (Niba) is text-based, but current technology has allowed for instant video contact. It is indeed argued that selling porn through the Internet has become a major behind the development of virtual video technologies such as video players.
For example, adult video gatherings allow users to see live performances of nude models as long as they pay, and this emerging industry allows some companies to collect millions of dollars a month.
(Nicolas Mirzov's Introduction to Visual Culture)
