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ABSTRACT
This article introduces the concept of sexual authorship – text-dominant instances employing narrative to communicate and construct the body and sexual activity. Sexual authorship includes cybersex, online erotica shared in communities or non-profit contexts, and blogging. The article investigates all three forms to elucidate the similarities that exist, making use of Simon and Gagnon's ‘Sexual Scripting Theory', and reveals a common form of sexual experience for the author/reader based on several themes. A mutual construction of a fantasy for arousal is established where produsers are aroused during authorship, and by virtue of the knowledge that others will use their production for sexual excitement. This performative aspect is achieved by utilizing shared ‘tokens of meaning’ to construct a represented body, which may serve purely as a fantasy object or mediate the physical or enacted body of the individual, or attempt all three.