Video: What is "cybersex"?
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Marc F. Kern
Marc F. Kern, Ph.D., has over 30 years of clinical psychotherapy experience helping people overcome their self-defeating habits and acquire the insights and skills to live happier lives. He has a deep personal understanding of the addictive process and continues his lifelong research of contemporary treatments for addiction and other destructive behaviors.
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By Marc F. Kern
Published on 04/17/2008
Cybersex is a very interesting sort of phenomenon. Cybersex is sort of a function of the Internet, a function of computers.
But what it provides is a mechanism that has heretofore never been available.
People can communicate and talk with other human beings and fantasize and to discuss sexual content and to engage in a virtual sexual relationship that, at least in their minds, is real.
We don't have to worry about AIDS and things like that because there's no physical contact.
But the mechanisms and the desires of sex and sexual intimacy and sexual contact can be lived out through the Internet in cybersex.
The mechanisms and the desires of sex and sexual intimacy and
sexual contact can be lived out through the Internet in cybersex.
Cybersex is a very interesting sort of phenomenon. Cybersex is sort of a function of the Internet, a function of computers.
But what it provides is a mechanism that has heretofore never been available.
People can communicate and talk with other human beings and fantasize and to discuss sexual content and to engage in a virtual sexual relationship that, at least in their minds, is real.
We don't have to worry about AIDS and things like that because there's no physical contact.
But the mechanisms and the desires of sex and sexual intimacy and sexual contact can be lived out through the Internet in cybersex.