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This issue approaches virtual sex as a privileged field for understanding how pornography is transformed by immersive technologies, digital platforms, and synthetic images. The contributions move between VR porn, video games, AI-generated erotics, webcamming, nineteenth-century photography, and early online environments such as Habbo Hotel, showing how erotic experience is continually reshaped by different media forms. Rather than presenting virtual sex as a purely contemporary phenomenon, the issue situates it within a longer history of technical mediation, pornographic imagination, and embodied spectatorship. What emerges is a reflection on how pornographic images change when they become environments to inhabit, interfaces for perceiving bodies, and infrastructures that stage and monetize desire.