Male and female use of cybersex

From k-punk: "In The Fragile Absolute, Zizek illustrates Lacan’s distinction between two types of enjoyment, by referring to male and female uses of the web. ‘On the one hand we have the closed, solipsistic circuit of drives which find their satisfaction in idiotic masturbatory activity. On the other hand, erotic pleasure hinges on the seductive talk of the lover, on the satisfaction provided by speech itself, not just on the act in its stupidity. And does not this contrast explain the long-observed difference in how the sexes relate to cyberspace sex? Men are more prone to use cyberspace as a masturbatory device for their solitary playing, while women participate in chatrooms, using cyberspace for seductive exchanges of speech.’ While men wait for high-resolution webcams that'll show everything, women trade words.
Some remarks by Irigaray in This Sex Which Is Not One are instructive. ‘Woman’s autoeroticism is very different from man’s. In order to touch himself, man needs an instrument: his hand, a woman’s body, language…And this self-caressing requires at least a minimum of activity. A woman touches herself in and of herself without any way to distinguish activity from passivity. Woman “touches” herself all the time, and moreover no-one can forbid her to do so, for her genitals are formed of two lips in continuous contact. Thus, within herself, she is already two – but not divisible into one(s) – that caress each other.’"
In related news, Yale Professor Craphogger launches his 'democratization of sex' project: by cloning Marilyn Monroe's vagina from stem cells generated from one of her hairs, and by use of a sheath attached via multitudinous electrodes to your PC hard-drive, he will provide access for the world's penises to this hitherto inaccessible valley.