Cyber-Sex
| Autor: | Limor Schwartz Ma, Joan D. Atwood |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy. 1:37-56 |
| ISSN: | 1533-2683 1533-2691 |
| DOI: | 10.1300/j398v01n03_03 |
| Popis: | While percentages of extramarital sex (EMS) vary from study to study, it can be estimated that 50-60% of married men and 45-55% of married women engage in extramarital sex at some time or another during their marriage and almost half come to therapy because of it. EMS appears in several different forms, only some of which are sexual in nature. Recently, couples are coming to therapy with a new type of affair: the Cyber-Affair. According to the President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, this type of Internet infidelity has been greatly underestimated due to the Internet's current popularity as a technological advancement. In addition, healthcare professionals are often unfamiliar with the dynamics associated with the relatively new concept of cyber-affairs and the electronic process of “virtual cheating” and thus often do not consider the behavior as infidelity. It is the purpose of this paper to explore this new phenomenon, the cyber-affair and to investigate how the ability to for... |
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