Cybersex Addiction
CYBERSEX ADDICTION
By:
Joanne Petrie
Darlene Grippo-Sowa
PSY/210
Axia College
6/24/11
Cybersex Addiction J Petrie
Internet Sex Addiction
Internet has provided people with a huge number of benefits- which include increased knowledge data bases, reductions in communication barriers, and a much more pronoun wide reach around the globe internationally and locally. On the other hand, the same internet has also showed results of negative effects as well, of which is the most prominent is cybersex addictions. As the term cybersex suggests, that it is the virtual encounter to different forms of internet-based sex. All can cause problems by discussing or watching and pose risks to internet users by displaying explicit sexual materials. A cybersex situation is the encounter of two or more individuals connected by internet and use the act of giving or taking one thing in return for another that describe a sexual encounter or experience. Cybersex is most commonly performed in the privacy of people’s homes, or in cyber cafes, educational institutions, workplaces, chat rooms, and online porn sites. The three main forms of internet-based cybersex are: Online Pornography which shows pictures, video, audio, and texting.
Real Time Interactions which is talking to individuals about explicit sexual subjects of a discourse or of a section of a discourse in internet chat rooms, and exchange images or files, such as video and audio messages. Multi-Media Software is online erotic media, and CD-ROMs with sound and video clips, x-rated movies, and sexual games. Also cybersex addictions have caused drastic psychological changes to active participants in the on-line community of the internet and serious symptoms of cybersex addiction to ones-
self.
By:
Joanne Petrie
Darlene Grippo-Sowa
PSY/210
Axia College
6/24/11
Cybersex Addiction J Petrie
Internet Sex Addiction
Internet has provided people with a huge number of benefits- which include increased knowledge data bases, reductions in communication barriers, and a much more pronoun wide reach around the globe internationally and locally. On the other hand, the same internet has also showed results of negative effects as well, of which is the most prominent is cybersex addictions. As the term cybersex suggests, that it is the virtual encounter to different forms of internet-based sex. All can cause problems by discussing or watching and pose risks to internet users by displaying explicit sexual materials. A cybersex situation is the encounter of two or more individuals connected by internet and use the act of giving or taking one thing in return for another that describe a sexual encounter or experience. Cybersex is most commonly performed in the privacy of people’s homes, or in cyber cafes, educational institutions, workplaces, chat rooms, and online porn sites. The three main forms of internet-based cybersex are: Online Pornography which shows pictures, video, audio, and texting.
Real Time Interactions which is talking to individuals about explicit sexual subjects of a discourse or of a section of a discourse in internet chat rooms, and exchange images or files, such as video and audio messages. Multi-Media Software is online erotic media, and CD-ROMs with sound and video clips, x-rated movies, and sexual games. Also cybersex addictions have caused drastic psychological changes to active participants in the on-line community of the internet and serious symptoms of cybersex addiction to ones-
self.
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