Have you experienced cyber sex?
Was it something you would venture to again? Is it necessary and affective?
Pornography, online chartrooms and sex in cyberspace is a popular, unstoppable and growing business which is accessible twenty four hours a day seven days a week in the privacy of your own home. Sex in cyberspace is an affordable totally anonymous area online which is there to provide amusement to some and enjoyment to others. Cyber sex is the safest way to experience sex which many may be turning to in an unsafe world. However does it desensitise us to the real thing?
Perhaps cybersex will become the ‘normal’ sex in the future.
Online places such as ‘Second Life’ a virtual reality game have shown increases with cyber sex. Within Second Life sex is fairly common “ whether an assignation with a prostitute, a pick up in a bar or making love next to the fire at home with your second life spouse, sex is the virtual realm” (New New Media, Paul Levinson, 2009) and is extremely apparent and one of the main attractions within the virtual world.
When looking into Second Life I was extremely surprised about how large and popular the industry is, I was also extremely surprised when I was meet head-on with some of the women in the virtual world. All these women whether they be prostitutes, pole dancers or others where all perfectly sculptured and very unrealistic. Cyber sex offerings within Second Life are on the same level as real life. The business’s within Second Life offer the same services as the real life however Second Life has an advantage over the real world because your sexual fantasies can be played out without the embarrassment and within the comfort of your own home.
What is so attracting about this world of virtual sex? Is it because we can be someone else within our minds? Is it because we can have a virtual sexual relationship with another person through online? This brings up the question... is cybersex a form cheating?
Sex in cyberspace is in some way the equivalent to having another relationship. If you are in a monogamous relationship is having an online relationship with an avatar or in a chat room classified as cheating? Will your world relationship last over the online?
Mary Ann Layden co director of Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology program called Porn “the most concerning thing to psychological health that I know existing today”.
Could this virtual reality be harming people with them not knowing? Layden said “the internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous and aroused”, Layden brings up the argument of cyber sex being addictive. In the article “internet porn: worse than crack?” it has been researched that pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction then cocaine addicts.
Is this cybersex phenomenon becoming the new drug for this generation?
Today’s obsession with the newest technology has created a need for virtual reality and in turn cyber sex. But is cyber sex become a problem within society with people becoming addicted to online feelings and shutting out real world feelings.
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