ABSTRACT
What do you call a man who, when online, would have sex with men but in the offline world, he would only have sex with women? A study by health scientist Michael Ross shows that heterosexual men who have sex with other men online would still claim themselves as heterosexuals because for these “straight” men, the experiences of the body in the physical world are more privileged than the virtual one when it comes to constructing their identity (Ross 2005: 345). This labeling of one’s sexuality that only considers one’s expression of sexuality in the offline world while disregarding online encounters is problematic. We need a new category of sexuality to help us understand the complexity of sexuality in this era of the digital world. I call this new category of sexuality wikisexuality.
