This essay examines how video can be haptic and explores the eroticism to which the haptic image appeals. Although many visual media are capable of these qualities, it is interesting to see how the electronic medium of video can have this tactile closeness, given that it is generally considered to be a distanced and "cool" medium. Through exploring the tactile qualities of video itself and the relationship between the viewer and the image, a multisensory or a fullness of experience is attempted. A visual erotics is examined as a respect for otherness and concomitant of loss of self in the presence of the other. Marks clearly examines sense perception and the levels of possible engagement within the medium of video and within the limits of visuality.