Is Cyberprostitution Prostitution?

The opening of an academic paper about online sex work:

In this paper, I examine the way in which cyberprostitution--a new advance in the technology of communication sine qua non.disturbs the status quo heretofore considered the conceptual terrain of prostitution under the Law. First, I map out the .early, clumsy form. of cyberprostitution today.the practices and possibilities which threaten to serve as .an incubus on later understanding. of this new technology. Next, I explore the way in which such technical laymen as judges (and lawyers) have begun to apply familiar analogies from the past in their attempts to assimilate cyberprostitution into some semblance of a structure of rights and obligations. Finally, I suggest that the interface produced by the analogizing of prostitution to today.s lay image of cyberprostitution provides an important and likely shortlived window of opportunity for an honest moment of reckoning with a naked emperor previously and pervasively dressed up and trotted out as .Prostitution. by our courts and regulatory agencies. In other words, I am as much interested in the way in which the American legal system is expanding the conceptual terrain of prostitution to include cyberprostitution as I am in the way cyberprostitution is by virtue of this expansion changing the very lay of the land.

Is Cyberprostitution Prostitution?
New Paradigm, Old Crime