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One celebrated case of online gender switching is that
of the 'Julie Graham' persona, a neuropsychologist who
had supposedly been left severely disabled and disfigured
from a car accident and as a consequence refused to meet
any of her online friends in real life. Julie circulated
and became popular in CompuServe's virtual communities,
before setting up a women's discussion group where she
befriended a number of women helping some overcome suicidal
tendencies and drug abuse, and engaged in online sex.
Eventually
however, the real author of Julie felt forced to admit
his identity as male able-bodied New York psychiatrist
Sanford Lewis... more
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