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Virtual sex is a form of non-penetrative sex
Non-penetrative sex

Non-penetrative sex is sexual activity without vaginal, anal, and Mouth Sexual penetration, as opposed to sexual intercourse, anal sex, or oral sex....
 where two or more people gather together via some form of communications equipment to arouse each other by transmitting sexually explicit messages. Virtual sex describes the phenomenon, no matter the communications equipment used. Also called hot chat.



Increases in Internet connectivity, bandwidth availability, and the proliferation of webcam
Webcam

File:Logitech E2500 webcam.jpgWebcams are video capture connected to computer or computer network, often using Universal Serial Bus or, if they connect to networks, ethernet or Wi-Fi....
s have also had implications for virtual sex enthusiasts.






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Virtual sex is a form of non-penetrative sex
Non-penetrative sex

Non-penetrative sex is sexual activity without vaginal, anal, and Mouth Sexual penetration, as opposed to sexual intercourse, anal sex, or oral sex....
 where two or more people gather together via some form of communications equipment to arouse each other by transmitting sexually explicit messages. Virtual sex describes the phenomenon, no matter the communications equipment used. Also called hot chat.

  • Cybersex
    Cybersex

    Cybersex, computer sex, internet sex or net sex is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience....
     is virtual sex over the Internet
    Internet

    The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
    , including IRC
    Internet Relay Chat

    Internet Relay Chat is a form of real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for Many-to-many in discussion forums, called #Channels, but also allows One-to-one via instant messaging, as well as chat and data transfers via Direct Client-to-Client....
    , e-mail
    E-mail

    Electronic mail, often abbreviated as e-mail, email, E-Mail, or eMail, is any method of creating, transmitting, or storing primarily text-based human communications with digital communications systems....
    , instant messaging
    Instant messaging

    Instant messaging is a form of Real-time computing communication between two or more people based on typed text. The Written language is conveyed via devices connected over a network such as the Internet....
    , chat room
    Chat room

    The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing....
    s, role-playing game
    Role-playing game

    A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
    s, etc.
  • Phone sex
    Phone sex

    Phone sex is a type of virtual sex that refers to Dirty talk between two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy....
     is virtual sex over the telephone
    Telephone

    The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
    . People also have virtual sex via mobile phone
    Mobile phone

    A mobile phone is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites....
     text messages. The advent of cell phones with built-in digital camera
    Digital camera

    A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording digital image via an electronics .Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs....
    s has undoubtedly added new dimensions to these activities.


Increases in Internet connectivity, bandwidth availability, and the proliferation of webcam
Webcam

File:Logitech E2500 webcam.jpgWebcams are video capture connected to computer or computer network, often using Universal Serial Bus or, if they connect to networks, ethernet or Wi-Fi....
s have also had implications for virtual sex enthusiasts. It's increasingly common for these activities to include the exchange of pictures or motion video. There are companies which allow paying customers to actually watch people have live sex or masturbate and at the same time allow themselves to be watched as well. Recently devices have been introduced and marketed to allow remote controlled stimulation. Thus the distinctions between real and virtual sex may become increasingly blurred.

Sociologists have compared virtual sex to being a cyborg
Cyborg

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism . The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space....
, because a natural human activity (having sex) is being mediated by technology. Thus, in some sense, the technology becomes part of the person's identity.

This is a relatively new phenomenon although there are stories of telegraph operators exchanging sexually explicit messages at the fin de siecle
Fin de siècle

Fin de si?cle is French language for ?end of the century?. The term sometimes encompasses both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be a period of degeneration, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning....
 (end of the century).

As with many other aspects of human sexuality
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
 this one is controversial, with opponents branding it as a form of pornography
Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually arousing imagery....
 and often trying to infer some correlation to pedophilia
Pedophilia

The term pedophilia or paedophilia has a range of definitions as found in psychology, law enforcement, and the popular vernacular.As a medical diagnosis, it is defined as a psychological disorder in which an adult experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children....
 and/or child pornography
Child pornography

Child pornography refers to images or films depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child; as such, child pornography is a visual record of child sexual abuse....
. There is not yet any clear consensus about the psychological implications of cybersex. As with other forms of paraphilia
Paraphilia

Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotype normal, consenting adult human partners....
 cybersex is scrutinized as a possible symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental disorder most commonly characterized by Intrusive thoughts, repetitive thoughts resulting in compulsive behaviors and mental acts that the person feels driven to perform, according to rules that must be applied rigidly, aimed at reducing anxiety by preventing some dreaded event or by resolving a more...
. Meanwhile proponents are quick to point out that any activity can be symptomatic of OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental disorder most commonly characterized by Intrusive thoughts, repetitive thoughts resulting in compulsive behaviors and mental acts that the person feels driven to perform, according to rules that must be applied rigidly, aimed at reducing anxiety by preventing some dreaded event or by resolving a more...
 and that cybersex between or among consenting adults is essentially no different from any other form or erotica
Erotica

Erotica or "curiosa," works of art, including erotic literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with eroticism sexual stimulation or sexual arousal descriptions....
, pornography
Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually arousing imagery....
 or sexual activity.

Other

Virtual Sex also refers to the genre of CD-ROMS and DVDs directed by Joone
Joone (director)

Ali Joone is an award winning film director and film producer of pornographic film and founder of the company Digital Playground. He is considered a ground-breaker in the world of interactive adult technology, pioneering the Virtual Sex line of DVDs....
 and released by Digital Playground
Digital Playground

Digital Playground Inc. is a Pornographic film studio headquartered in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. It has been called one of the five biggest porn studios....
 in which the viewer can "command" a famous porn actress by selecting from a menu of explicit scenes.

See also

  • Teledildonics
    Teledildonics

    Teledildonics are electronic sex toys that can be controlled by a computer. Promoters of these devices have claimed since the 1980s they are the "next big thing" in cybersex technology....


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  • text/SMS
    SMS

    SMS or sms may refer to:...
    .