Sex Degrees

   Lish Daelnar, 23, has an unusual piece of personal history posted on
   the web: her very own sex chart. Despite her relatively tender years,
   the chart already registers 1,400 links, some of which are very
   famous, very old--and very dead.

   Reached by phone, the Santa Cruz resident said the project started
   four years ago when she dated a lot of guys in the Internet scene.

   "To make fun of me, some of the guys created a sex chart," says
   Daelnar of the website, which defines as a link "any sexual action
   between computer users that is capable of spreading an STD with a
   minimum requirement of wet kissing."

   But according to Daelnar's definition, one-way links don't count.
   "Body parts have to be touching, fluid has to be exchanged. I don't
   count it as a link if the girl didn't get anything out of the
   situation."

   In the first version of the chart, Daelnar, listed by her email
   nickname "crank," made out with 8ball, Dcheese, beastie, oodles,
   fatslayer, jamesy, pip and aoxomoxoa--proving that geeks aren't
   celibate, after all.

   But boys being boys, the guys soon tired of the joke.

   "I wasn't embarrassed enough," says Daelnar, who took over the chart 3
   1/2 years ago "because I needed to do something else other than play
   computer games."

   Today the chart takes up 46KB and connects 1,400 names in a perverse
   connect-the-dot puzzle, an effect that apparently has not pleased all
   those listed.

   But Daelnar ain't sweatin' it.

   "I'm sure about the Minnie Driver link," she says, "but Drew Barrymore
   could be someone's email nickname, which is why I kept the list so
   vague.

   So far, the chart has garnered a lot of interest.

   "Everyone has either met or knows someone on it," says Daelnar, who so
   far has been interviewed by Wired News and NBC. "And Sally Jesse
   called!" she adds, admitting that she gets lots of weird emails.

   And what does her mother think?

   "That it's pretty hilarious. Besides, she thinks html stands for
   hotmail, so I'm not sure she'd grasp what the chart's all about."

   Despite revealing all her makeout links, Daelnar's not about to
   release any photos, a lesson in caution she learned from her other
   great obsession: body art.

   "I'm very ornamented--I even have a tattoo on my head," says Daelnar,
   explaining that since a picture of her head was posted on the
   Internet, complete strangers have come up to her on the street. "Which
   is kinda creepy."

   In case you're wondering if you or someone you know is on Daelnar's
   chart, visit www.attrition.org/hosted/sexchart/.