Gender tourist

Someone who tries on the mask of a gender other than their own when online.

• By choosing a distinctivly male or female nickname, or by setting their gender property
• By adopting behaviour and/or speech they assume people of another gender use
• By describing themselves with obviously masculine or feminine characteristics

There are many reasons why someone would pretend to be a girl, or pretend to be a boy online such as:

• to encourage net.sex or flirting
• to avoid harrasment, and/or copious amounts of textual drooling
• to see how the other half lives
• to mess with someone's head
• to skip out of the whole business by using gender-neutral name and pronouns
• to explain the vast proportion of green-eyed red-haired cheerleaders online

Many unskilled gender tourists over egg the pudding, by taking on a name like sexysexyhotkittengirl and describing their vast bouncing breasts and skimpy clothing in overenthusiastic terms.

Some people are extraordinarily paranoid about this, especially when indulging in netsex, and devise trick questions which will catagorically prove the 'true' gender of the other. These questions tend to be as sophisticated as pre-school and frequently revolve around menstruation and pantyhose sizes.

Wrongly calling a gender tourist out, though, is guaranteed to piss people off.

Gender tourism is mostly harmless, and frequently amusing unless it involves nasty meatspace surprises.