Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace

This review highlights the relationship between sexuality and Internet use, the various ways in which the Internet includes and enhances sexuality, how it affects sexual behaviors and attitudes, and the important role it has in peoples’ sexual behavior, education, interaction, and satisfaction. This...

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Main Author: Ami Rokach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ital Publication 2020-09-01
Series:SciMedicine Journal
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Online Access:https://scimedjournal.org/index.php/SMJ/article/view/115
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description This review highlights the relationship between sexuality and Internet use, the various ways in which the Internet includes and enhances sexuality, how it affects sexual behaviors and attitudes, and the important role it has in peoples’ sexual behavior, education, interaction, and satisfaction. This article also presents the ‘two faces’ of the Internet. It is a useful, cheap, and widely available tool which ‘opens the world’ to people who only need to sit by the computer, but it may also include harmful, damaging, and twisted material which could – especially for the younger generation – be harmful and misleading.
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spelling doaj.art-522f8263aa834667ad5206ec3178b23c2022-12-22T01:54:45ZengItal PublicationSciMedicine Journal2704-98332020-09-012315115610.28991/SciMedJ-2020-0203-539Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in CyberspaceAmi Rokach0Department of Physiology, York university, Toronto,This review highlights the relationship between sexuality and Internet use, the various ways in which the Internet includes and enhances sexuality, how it affects sexual behaviors and attitudes, and the important role it has in peoples’ sexual behavior, education, interaction, and satisfaction. This article also presents the ‘two faces’ of the Internet. It is a useful, cheap, and widely available tool which ‘opens the world’ to people who only need to sit by the computer, but it may also include harmful, damaging, and twisted material which could – especially for the younger generation – be harmful and misleading.https://scimedjournal.org/index.php/SMJ/article/view/115psychologyinternet usecyberspacesexuality.
spellingShingle Ami Rokach
Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace
SciMedicine Journal
psychology
internet use
cyberspace
sexuality.
title Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace
title_full Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace
title_fullStr Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace
title_full_unstemmed Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace
title_short Sexuality and Internet Use: The Promise and Dangers in Cyberspace
title_sort sexuality and internet use the promise and dangers in cyberspace
topic psychology
internet use
cyberspace
sexuality.
url https://scimedjournal.org/index.php/SMJ/article/view/115
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