Sex! It’s no surprise that porn is the largest and most profitable online industry. Perhaps no longer surprising also, sexuality is the most frequently searched subject and the most profitable part of the Internet. Daily, people are accessing porn via the Internet in ever growing numbers and spend increasing amounts of time online. Nearly 30% of Internet users have accessed an ‘adult’ site.
The internet provides a place where people can communicate, fantasise and discuss sexual content and engage in a virtual sexual relationship. The desires and arousals that come from sex and intimacy can be experience via the internet cybersex. This is what can make cybersex such an addiction.
Ryan Singel article Internet Porn: Worse Than Crack?, portrays internet pornography as the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction.
The addiction often arises as viewing pornography really does, unlike other addictions, have a biologically effect. That is,vit causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. Cybersex can be used as a mood altering drug much like drugs of alcohol.
Via the internet people can view pornography, engage in cybersex or an exotic chat with someone due to the accessibility, speed of delivery and the secretive manner. It essentially is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and can do it in the privacy of your own home. This is what the internet a dangerous tool as it removes inefficiency the in the delivery of pornography, making porn much accessible privately.
The need or want for people to use the internet for such acts such as cybersex is on the raise. Experts quoting that a figure as high as $83 billion was spent Internet sex last year, larger than the combined annua
l revenues of ABC, NBC and CBS.Marnie C. Ferree the writer of Women and the Web: Cybersex Activity and Implications explains how women’s web use compares with men’s. It is quite typical to think of men only when cybersex is mentioned, M. Ferree believes this is evident due to, “Standards for feminine behaviour limit women’s expressions of sexuality more than men’s practices, and women’s participation in Internet sex is far outside the stereotypical boundaries”
Women are indeed equally as involved in cybersex as men, maybe even more. For women, sexually promiscuity can be dangerous and often isn’t desirable for many women. Things like body image, fear of being rejected, and self-respect perhaps can lead to women to online sex as a safe way to cure ones urges. In some ways it’s like a romantic novel but with someone on the other side.
I believe if you find engaging in online sexual activity pleasurable or rewarding there is nothing wrong it that. It’s when one has a sense of loss of control or freedom or excessive thinking and preparing for the engagement that where problems and addictions can arise.
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