1    The boundaries of the private and public self appear to have become less discernible within the last two decades. The expanding and ceaseless dissemination of personal pictures and narratives through the different media have led to a dwindling sense of shielded privacy and intimacy. By the same token the sense of continuously performing oneself, of seeing onself as being seen by others, has increased and accompanies our self awareness. The three articles in this issue address the implications this altered relatedness of Private I, Public Eye has for the general engagement with and indivdual agency with regards to gender and sexual “identity”.