Virtual Sex Relationships—The case study of Cybersex in Taiwan

• Main Authors: FU,Yi-Wen, 傅怡文
• Other Authors: 簡上淇
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76056768633501621859

碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 人類性學研究所 === 96 === Recent years, Internet has been widely developed, spread and applied everywhere. With the nature of the internet, sex is everywhere in the internet consequently. We discovered that cybersex has been a trend of resolution on demand of sex as sex appears in various kinds of interpersonal relationship in the internet. In order to investigate sex and relationships in the internet, the researcher adopted Narrative Inquiry Approach by collecting data from several interviewers during conversations. Through on-line questionnaires, the researcher would like to explore the attitude toward, experience about, and reasons for cybersex among college students in Taiwan. Based on the result of this study, it is found that males are more willing to share their sexual intercourse or sexual behaviors than females among people having experiences about cybersex. Females do not tend to disclose their real-life background even if they accept to share their thoughts. Part of the internet users consider that cyberlife inevitably connects between real life no matter what kind of point of view people held. Besides, relationships in cyberlife are probably to extend to real life. However, due to the difference between cyberlife and real life, most internet users tend to regard sexual behaviors in internet and real life as individual. With the rising of the internet, it offers a new way and place for people to do sexual activities. New interpersonal relationships and interactions have been developed in the internet as well as a new type of sexual activities. People start to develop "real" interpersonal relationships in "virtual" spaces, resulting in a different-from-past way for exchanges and interactions.