ABSTRACT

Many websites and online service providers offer a variety of features, often organized by location and/or special interest, which allow people to communicate with each other in public chatrooms or via private chats. Chatrooms also provide a convenient way to identify others who are online at any given moment by looking at the list of everyone

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information someone wants to reveal about themselves, including physical appearance and photographs, sexual orientation, location, relationship information, sexual interests, drug use, HIV status, a potential partner’s desired attributes, hobbies, etc. Any subsequent communication may lead to immediate or future in-person meetings, the development of online relationships, and/or sexually explicit online exchanges (sometimes called cybersex) via a chat client or a webcam.