Cybersex

An intresting topic that has really developed over the last 10 years due to the advancement of technology.

Cybersex reefers to the meeting of the male and the female. It can be referred to as pornography, online dating, online sex and chartrooms.

In a narrow sense, Cybersex is said to be a human/computer interaction in which participants are sexually motivated.

This has caused society to become cyborgs.

A cyborg is classified as mixing technology with our biological side to meet people
Rather then going to events or meeting people.

It is scary to think that we as a society today rely heavily on technology for our entertinament,buiness ventures and survival. A prime example is a man surviving on an electrical device such as a pacemaker, without technology would he still be alive?

The future really has advanced with the introduction of Virtual Reality Based Cybersex such as a software program called "Afterlife". This allowes participants to enter a three dimensional, audiovisual and tactile reality using a Full body data suit which give the user a sense of a realism but in a remote home environment with no human interaction.


The future could that people will choose to meet online rather then in person, as with the case with Rebecca who believes that "she is becoming a cyborg because her sex life is undeniably tied to and dependent upon AOL chat rooms. All her sexual activities involving partners are online. “Rebecca is not sexually active other than with men she meets online. Although she has had cyber-sex and telephone sex with many men through AOL, Rebecca has not physically had sex with a partner since she began using the service. Rebecca does not practice casual sex in the real world because she does not believe it to be moral or safe.
“(Maheu, 1999:5)


Technology has caused a boundary and a relationship between the end user and the machine. Rebecca has defiantly become a cyborg.......scary but true!

We do not want our world to cometo this because in the end, we need human interaction for many reasons but such as reproduction.

Jumping topics, I think it is important to discuss the impact technology has on us as a soicety because with great technology comes great responsibility, this always however somehow leads to misuse.
A major problem in today’s technological world is the use of technology to breach invasion privacy laws or abuse/take advantage of other end users. "Misuse of technology also involves exposing our youth to cyber-crime.”(Maheu, 1999:5)
Even though governments are always trying to prevent the next occuring problem with technology, there almost always is away around it!

To summarise cybersex allows adults using internet resources to explore sexual identities and experiences. Being affordable and easily accessible and the fact that you are basically anonymous is a strong point to end users. However it allows deception, child pornography and even infidelity and should not always be considered as a way to escape reality!