Cybersex

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The term cybersex (CS), which has existed since the 1990s, describes various forms of virtual eroticism , sexual interaction and pornography that are lived out with the help of a computer or via the Internet . The spectrum ranges from pure viewing and / or masturbation while consuming pornographic images to sexually suggestive chats or the exchange of erotic emails within long-distance relationships to sexual stimulation with the help of data helmets or data gloves .

Concept emergence

The term cybersex is a loan word from English that has been used since the early 1990s. The term has been listed in German dictionaries since 1995. Usually cybersex is abbreviated as "CS" or "C6" in chat jargon . If a webcam is also used, the terms “cam sex”, “live cam sex” or “webcam sex” are also used; If both partners use a camera in a chat or similar, for example to observe each other while masturbating, the term "Cam-to-Cam", "Cam2Cam" or "C2C" is often used as a sub-category of Camsex.

History and Development

At the beginning of the 1990s, cybersex was mostly equated with the initiation of erotic or sexual contacts or online dating via email; other common forms were the increasing availability of various storage media with pornographic images or erotic computer games such as virtual strip poker . With the spread of the Internet, countless free as well as paid websites with erotic or pornographic content emerged . The use of such sites is mainly for personal sexual stimulation, whereby the Internet user can act out his sexual fantasies while consuming the images. In chat rooms, on the other hand, the focus is primarily on the anonymous exchange of sexual fantasies, which gives everyone involved the opportunity to articulate mutual fantasies and to exchange sexual ideas verbally erotically. For special interest groups, for example fetishists , homosexuals or swingers , special chat rooms were created, which over the years also developed additional offers such as information, round tables or forums .

With the development of 3D -based multiplayer online role-playing games such as Second Life , the possibility arose not only of verbally expressing sexual fantasies: users could now also carry out their respective avatars corresponding actions virtually. There are environments in which cybersex is expressly sought, while in other role-playing games it is a marginal phenomenon.

Data helmets, gloves and full-body suits should provide an interface between purely virtual sex and sexual experience in reality, but their development is still in its infancy. In addition, other aids are also offered, for example vibrators that can be connected and controlled to the computer via USB . This development is now also continuing commercially, in particular the controllable dildo and the webcam are monetized by many portals on the Internet. The boundaries to the developing machine sex are fluid.

As early as 1994, Alfred Biolek introduced a long-distance couple on his talk show Boulevard Bio on the subject of "cybersex" , who had developed specially made suits with sensors and vibrators. These vibrators were connected to the partner's computer at the other location via the ISDN telephone network at the time . With specially developed programs, the stimulation of a certain part of the body could be selected and activated.

distribution

Only a few statistics and studies exist on the exact number of visitors and users of cybersex. For the USA , studies have shown that around 40 million people visit such websites. The majority of them, around 70 percent, consume these offers during working hours.

Adolescents and children with Internet access are usually also exposed to cybersex in one of its forms. A 2006 study of minors in the Netherlands found that 75 percent of girls and 80 percent of boys had sexual experiences on the Internet. 26 percent of the girls and 10 percent of the boys experienced these experiences as negative. Similar results can be expected for the whole of Western Europe.

motivation

In addition to the pornographic representation consumed by the individual for sexual stimulation or to stimulate the imagination during masturbation, other motives can be determined in cybersex between two or more people in addition to pure stimulation. Kornelius Roth lists six basic factors that make virtual sex attractive: It is easily available, safe, anonymous, secret, not very expensive and normalizes one's own sexuality. In addition, other factors such as the almost infinite availability of new sexual partners and sexual stimuli make virtual sex attractive. If sexual communication takes place in text form (for example in chats and forums), there is also the possibility of building an independent virtual identity that does not have to correspond to real existence. With such an artificial identity, worlds of experience can be made accessible that remain closed in reality, for example a man can portray himself as a woman in his sexual fantasy, play an animal or behave significantly older or younger.

Another aspect of cybersex is the security provided by the lack of physical contact and the physical integrity of the individual, even with extreme fantasies. For example, infection with sexually transmitted diseases or an unwanted pregnancy are excluded even with frequently changing sex partners , and pain is not actually felt. Socially frowned upon or legally forbidden sexual practices such as coprophagia or incest can be practiced virtually, only a few practices are also punishable on the Internet, for example pedophilia .

Sex addiction on the internet

Similar to real sex addiction or internet addiction, cybersex also contains a certain addictive potential . While most users only visit sex sites occasionally, there is another group that are at increased risk. These are usually Internet users who have already shown minimal tendencies towards sex addiction in reality and who try to use cybersex to suppress real problems or to process them emotionally. Cybersex addicts, on the other hand, are mostly people who live out their real sex addiction in virtuality and thus expand it. In an American study, 77 percent of the men affected stated that they concentrate predominantly on the consumption of pornography, while 80 percent of women addicted seek virtual exchange via chats. As with other forms of addiction, co-dependencies of the life partner can arise and the family and work can be neglected to such an extent that the maintenance of relationships and working relationships is endangered or made impossible. The treatment and withdrawal symptoms are similar to those of real sex addiction.

See also

  • Cyber-grooming , targeted addressing of people on the Internet with the aim of establishing sexual contacts
  • Sexting , private communication on sexual issues via mobile messaging
  • Sextortion

literature

  • Wilfred Lindo: Cybermania. The breathtaking travel guide through digital space . Data Becker, 1994, ISBN 3-8158-1082-5 .
  • Al Cooper: cybersex. The Dark Side of the Force. A Special Issue of the Journal "Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity" . Brunner-Routledge, 2000, ISBN 1-58391-305-X .
  • Christiane Eichenberg: Crackling in the network. Romances in cyberspace - real love relationships or pseudo partnerships? In: c't. Magazine for computer technology . No. 1 , 2001, p. 84-91 ( profamilia-online.de [PDF]).
  • Kimberly S. Young: Cybersex: Uncovering the Secret World of Internet Sex . Carlton, 2002, ISBN 1-84222-156-6 .
  • Daniel Koller: Cybersex. The criminal law assessment of soft and hard pornography on the Internet taking into account the depictions of violence (= Editions Weblaw , 3: Dissertation No. 1). Edition Weblaw, Bern / Schulthess, Zurich / Basel / Geneva 2007, ISBN 978-3-905742-19-0 (Edition Weblaw) / ISBN 978-3-7255-5444-7 (Schulthess) (Dissertation University of Zurich 2007, 510 pages ).
  • Karoline Lukaschek: On the constitution of community in a fantasy and role play chat room , University Library, Heidelberg 2008, DNB 988280574 . Dissertation University of Heidelberg 2008, 176 pages, full text (PDF; 6.4 MB) free of charge, 180 pages, DNB 988282011 .
  • Arne Dekker: Online Sex. Physical forms of subjectivation in virtual spaces . transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1854-9 ( content and information free of charge, 19 pages [PDF; 1.5 MB ] Revised dissertation University of Hamburg 2012, 322 pages, under the title: Cybersex , publisher information and full text e-book , fee-based, 322 pages).
  • Bernd Borchard u. a .; Ulrich Moser (preface): Cybersex: Psychoanalytische Perspektiven . Ed .: Agatha Merk (=  contributions to sex research . Volume 97 ). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8379-2252-3 .
  • Jan Snagowski: Cybersex addiction: Conditioning processes and implicit cognition . University Library Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg / Essen 2016, DNB 1098130561 . Cumulative dissertation University of Duisburg-Essen 2016, supervisor: Matthias Brand, full text (PDF; 2 MB; 156 pages) free of charge (English).

Web links

Wiktionary: Cybersex  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Excerpt from WDR Computer Night on YouTube
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  8. ↑ Lutz van Dijk: The story of love and sex . Campus Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-593-37913-9 , pp. 187 .
  9. ↑ Kornelius Roth: Sex Addiction: Illness and Trauma in Hidden . 2nd Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-86153-442-8 , p. 150 .
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