Original Article on The New York Observer

On one of the first nights of summer break, Marie Calloway, a 21-year-old Portland college student, was up until 3 a.m., sitting in her parents house in Nevada, working up the nerve to hit send. For weeks she had been exchanging e-mails with a writer she admired. Now she would make a frank proposal. He had expanded her world view, she told him, and shed be in New York at the end of the month. Would he like to sleep with her? He responded promptly. Six months later, Ms. Calloway published a 15,000-word story about the brief affair. It couldnt have surprised those familiar with her work. On Thought Catalog and her personal blog, Ms. Calloway published similar accounts of sexual encounters with Internet acquaintances. She even told the writer ...(read more)