Friday, October 24, 2014

Cyber Sex: The newest form of cheating?

Social media has given people a great outlet for communication. It has open a world to new friends, new stories, new relationships, new sex? Once picture messaging became available on smart phones, people started to discover a whole new way to have "sex".  Cyber sex is defined as two or more people engaging in sexually explicit messages or photos over the computer. This created a whole new world to people who may or may not ever had real intimacy. Chat rooms became popular for people to interact and develop online relationships and then participate in cyber sex.
           Are there any advantages to Cyber Sex? With any new form of technology, even cyber sex there are advantages and disadvantages to it. For some people this may mean that they can hide behind a computer screen and express who they really are through chat rooms, online dating and eventually cyber sex. Some people may even enjoying moving from partner to partner and never feeling like they were in a "real relationship" or it was "meaningless". For others, this may be a great way to prevent unwanted pregnancy, or STD's. By having cyber sex there is no real contact, so you can avoid human diseases and even harm.
          What does Cyber Sex cost someone who is in a relationship? When a person in a real life, face to face relationship, and one partner choose to have Cyber Sex, is that cheating? There a new territories that some couples had to figure out. Just like a Porn addiction, is a cyber sex addition cheating to some people? With any form of sexual experience some type of emotion is usually involved: passion, or infidelity, or happiness. When it comes to "cyber sex cheating", which is worse Emotional or Sexual Infidelity? An article written on September 25, 2014 answers these questions. They raise questions that no matter how someone cheats, it still is cheating. When one person partakes in cheating, being on the cyber platform or with a person with real intercourse, they are breaking their trust with their partner. Is the cyber sex worth it? Some partner may never ever find out that their significant other is cheating, there are some strategies to hiding the infidelity. People can always delete anything web history on their computers, smart phones or tablets. In the end, what does cheating cost that relationship? It will only break the barrier of trust and harm the relationship in the end.
         There is another side to Cyber Sex, just like a Pornography addiction, an addiction to Cyber Sex is very serious. Some people are harming themselves and other because of their addictions. This addiction, can be very serious because people that you may know, could be hiding their real life from you, just like a drug addict would. "The Sexual Recovery Institute (SRI) is a specialty therapy agency directed toward the treatment of sexual addiction. SRI provides local programs for individuals and couples residing all over Southern California while also hosting persons seeking intensive treatment from throughout The United States and abroad."This program can help people handle their addiction and potentially end their addiction all together.
          Some people online are using cyber sex with their long distant relationships while others are struggling with a pornography and cyber sex addiction. This new form of technology, web cameras, "sexting", explicit imagines, video chatting and chat rooms all have their advantages and disadvantages. Realizing that there are going to be disadvantages and advantages to any type of activity someone partakes in, helps remove the risk of being harmed and harming others.

This website is a Cyber Sexual Addiction website, they have a self help exam, blogs, links that can help someone who is battling with this form of addiction.
http://www.cybersexualaddiction.com/
This article is the article defining different forms of cheating and how cyber sex can be cheating to some couples.
http://www.itscheating.com/cheating/men-and-women-see-cheating-differently/#more-1091

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