Weirdos of the world unite -- there is a place in cyberspace for you.
From bad art to inflatable panties, bald women to Spam sculpture, no "hobby" is too strange for the brave new virtual world, with surreal sites opening every day.
Into contortionism? Want to visit a Thai corpse museum with a group of schoolgirls? Or know what home life might be like with a serial killer? Then the Net is the place for you.
"The sheer variety of it all is at once breathtaking and baffling," according to a new book on the weirdest sites now operating in the on-line world. "The vain and the obsessed sit by the macabre and the downright grotesque."
Wow Wow: Sites Unseen, published this month by Laurence King Publishing, should draw oddballs, fetishists and voyeurs of every persuasion with its eclectic mix of the "strange and compelling." Inevitably, much is sex-driven, be it husbands by mail order, latex for cross-dressers or rubber for Mr. Blowup.
But when it comes to outlandish pay phones, the art of hatred or satsuma frenzy, it is clear some surfers are just plain weird. There is a site for the hairy, one for hat freaks and even one about a "big, dead, smelly" exploding whale.
Wow Wow was compiled by an array of contributors from poets to designers to journalists.
"Wow Wow succeeds in provoking the whole gamut of emotions, from incredulity to depression and from confusion to amazement, in both the writers and the reader," the publisher said.
Take , "devoted to men with a fetish for cigarettes and dedicated to the imagery of women smoking." See Aja, Angela, Babette, Eden and Gina perform on screen, or join Matt and Darren for a chat in the "smoke room" about the eroticism of cigarette holders, the joy of smoke rings and the French inhaler who is seeking a British woman for cigar fun.
"If you didn't get the message, 2ndhandsmokeinc.com is here to remind you that cigarettes mean sex -- serious sex," said Shannan Peckham, an Oxford University teacher who reviewed the site.
Reviewer Catherine Wilson explores -- "for guys with a foot fetish whose thing is images of women's feet pressing down on the accelerator." She admits to her own foot fetish as a student and says: "Tiffany-Anne is the sexiest revver around. No one can rotate her foot on the gas pedal and get that Dodge Durango to fire like Tiffany."
But sex is not the only show in town. There is a site showing Quicksam wallowing in quicksand and one that trails Kansas Rex in his hunt for the world's most remote pay phone. He finds it -- and the line is dead.
Bare heads, all female and some famous, loom large at 's Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow site. "Be it drinking champagne from a woman's sweaty stiletto or simply the fine curve of Victorian furniture, we each have our unique fixation," said reviewer Oliver Horton. "Bald women are the final frontier."