Psychological Background of Cybersexual Activities : Qualitative Survey of Specific Computer Mediated Communication (among Czech Users)

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Authors	DIVÍNOVÁ Radana
Year of publication	2005
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Abuse: The Dark Side of Human-Computer Interaction
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	http://www.agentabuse.org http://www.agentabuse.org/divinova.pdf
Field	Psychology
Keywords	Internet; online sexuality; sexual behavior; chat rooms; needs; motivation; masturbation; grounded theory
Description	The Internet and computers significantly influence the ways of presenting and consuming sexual content. In the presented study cyberexual activities and their users are surveyed. We understand cybersex as erotically suggestive or explicite messages or sexual fantasies that people exchange via the net. The qualitative survey conducted in 2003 outlined the psychological background of cybersexual activities. It belongs here: (1) needs that contribute to the motivation, (2) perceptions of cybersex, (3) sence of cybersex, (4) influence of cybersex upon the real sex, (5) the advantages of cybersex compared to real sex. In this paper only the first, second and last category are enlarged.
Related projects:	Psychological and social characteristics of children, youth and families, development of the personality in the time of changes of modern society