ABSTRACT
My interest here is in the ways that text-based vr can be read as a place-a laboratory, even-where bisexual cyborg subjectivity can be experimented with. To date there is hardly any research on the changing meanings of bisexuality occurring because of this new technology and form of communication, although there is a disproportionate interest in ‘sex on the net’ from both popularist and academic writers (Winder 1995; Butterworth 1990; McRae 1996). It’s as if bisexuality is too restrictive a term to use in such a ‘wild zone’. My reading of the narratives of cyberspace insists on the mapping of vr onto wider understandings of sexuality, gender and corporeality. It is precisely that connection between the asserting of identity and its simultaneous destabilising which makes the bisexual cyborg such an incisive and political image to work with.
