Morality of Cybersex

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In a world where technology continually prevails, contact with computers and the internet are becoming increasingly obtainable. With the internet comes a virtual world where communication is faster, easier, and more accessible than ever before. It is not surprising, then, that cybersex and online relationships have increasingly grown in popularity among internet users. Writer Stephen O. Watters in his article “Affairs” allocates private incidents of a few women who have been unhappy with their marriages. Due to their unsatisfying love life, they have sought correlation with men online. His article is basically a variety of stories to show how cybersex has ruined marriages, relationships, and has created emotional attachment to the computer. In a sense cybersex is an addiction. It is a way for many to hide themselves from reality in a pretend fantasy world. It gives them a brief feeling of satisfaction until they have to face reality. However, this brief contentment has caused more problems within people’s lives over time. The writer quarrels about the type of relationships people can set up by the use of the internet can be awfully powerful, and that the consequences of these online relationships can be just as hurtful to a marriage as an actual live affair. If one is in a relationship but sought attachment with someone else, whether it is physical or emotional, it is considered cheating. Cybersex, “the twenty-first-century’s version of phone sex” (Watters 383) is a sexual interaction without physical contact. Singles and even married couples are increasingly using Cybersex to seek extra-safe sexual intimacy. The question that is proposed is if Cybersex is considered another form of cheating (If that individual is emotionally attached to another partner.) Furthermore, does cheating require actual physical contact to be considered immoral? A relationship
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