User:Niteowlneils/remote sex

Remote sex refers to any activity intended to provide sexual stimulation between people in different physical locations. Generally, two or more people send graphic erotic content to the other participants. Remote sex has consistently moved to new technologies as they've become available. While the technologies have changed, the basic behavior has not. The goal is to exchange erotic material, usually until one or more participants have an orgasm. Often, the participants behave as themselves. Other times, they role-play according to pre-arranged scenarios. Erotic content in books, newspapers, magazines, videos, or television or radio programs doesn't count as remote sex, as they are one-way communication mediums.

Methods
Evolution of technology used for remote sex:

Letters
Before the invention of electricity and the telephone, the only viable means of engaging in remote sex was via letters sent via the mail, or hand-carried letters.

Telegraphy
It is unknown whether this technology was ever used for remote sex. As all telegraphs were in a business or government setting, it seems unlikely.

Telephone
The date of the first use of the telephone for remote sex is unknown, but it is generally considered to have gained initial widespread usage in the 1980s. It is likely the first way anyone engaged in remote sex in real time. Referred to as phone sex or telephone sex.

Computer bulletin boards
In pre-Internet times, computer users could communicate with each other via bulletin board systems (BBS). As with any communications technology, some people used it to engage in remote sex. One of the first technologies that could be used by more than two participants. The first method of cybersex.

Internet forums
Similar to a BBS, a forum can be used to engage in remote sex.

Internet chat
IRC clients provide another medium to use for remote sex.

Web cams
Ditto. Often accompanied by a chat feature to communicate with the person depicted.

Text messaging
Ditto

Wireless Internet connections
Ditto. Terms include toothing and bluechat, if using a Bluetooth-enabled device.