Cybersex
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| - | In '''roleplaying''', participants adopt and [[Acting|act]] out the [[role]] of [[fictional character|characters]], or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. Roleplaying, also known as ''RP'' to some, is like being in an [[improvisation]]al drama or free-form [[theater]], in which the participants are the [[actor]]s who are playing parts, and the [[audience]]. | ||
| - | People use the phrase "role-playing" in at least three distinct ways: | + | '''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. It is a form of [[role-playing]] in which the participants pretend they are having actual [[sexual relations]]. In one iteration, this fantasy sex is accomplished by the participants describing their actions and responding to their chat partners in a mostly written form designed to stimulate their own sexual feelings and fantasies. Cybersex may also be accomplished through the use of [[Avatar (computing)|avatars]] in a multiuser software environment. |
| - | *To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theater, or educational setting; | + | |
| - | *To refer to a wide range of games including [[computer role-playing games]], [[play-by-mail game]]s and more; | + | |
| - | *To refer specifically to [[role-playing games]]. | + | |
| - | ==Sexual roleplaying== | + | |
| - | A form of roleplaying in which partners take parts in a drama that provides sexual gratification; these might include a teacher and pupil, or employer and maid. Sexual roleplaying is common in [[BDSM]], and is integral to most pseudonymous or anonymous forms of [[cybersex]]. | + | |
| - | ===Sexual roleplaying in online games=== | + | Cybersex sometimes includes [[Real life (reality)|real life]] masturbation. The quality of a cybersex encounter typically depends upon the participants' abilities to evoke a vivid, visceral mental picture in the minds of their partners. Imagination and [[suspension of disbelief]] are also critically important. Cybersex can occur either within the context of existing or intimate relationships, e.g. among lovers who are geographically separated, or among individuals who have no prior knowledge of one another and meet in virtual spaces or cyberspaces and may even remain anonymous to one another. In some contexts cybersex is enhanced by the use of [[webcam]]s to transmit real-time video of the partners. |
| - | Sexual roleplaying also occurs, on various forms of [[online game]]s. This is a generally less accepted type of roleplaying in an online community, though opinions about it vary. Social acceptance and attitudes to sexual roleplaying differ within various communities, often dependent on the community's genre or purpose (e.g., adult [[BDSM]] and [[Sexual fetishism|fetish]] communities not only accept this behaviour but promulgate it as the main activity around which the online community functions). | + | |
| - | It is also not uncommon for players to form personal attachments or friendships with the player that they roleplay with. | + | |
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| - | The above mentioned example is generally better accepted in an [[online]] environment than roleplaying a character that involves sexual-related content in public or in abovementioned adult-themed roleplaying games. | + | |
| + | Cybersex is sometimes colloquially called "cybering". Channels used to initiate cybersex are not necessarily exclusively devoted to that subject, and participants in any Internet chat may suddenly receive a message with any possible variation of the text "Wanna cyber?", or a request for "C2C/C4C". | ||
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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. It is a form of role-playing in which the participants pretend they are having actual sexual relations. In one iteration, this fantasy sex is accomplished by the participants describing their actions and responding to their chat partners in a mostly written form designed to stimulate their own sexual feelings and fantasies. Cybersex may also be accomplished through the use of avatars in a multiuser software environment.
Cybersex sometimes includes real life masturbation. The quality of a cybersex encounter typically depends upon the participants' abilities to evoke a vivid, visceral mental picture in the minds of their partners. Imagination and suspension of disbelief are also critically important. Cybersex can occur either within the context of existing or intimate relationships, e.g. among lovers who are geographically separated, or among individuals who have no prior knowledge of one another and meet in virtual spaces or cyberspaces and may even remain anonymous to one another. In some contexts cybersex is enhanced by the use of webcams to transmit real-time video of the partners.
Cybersex is sometimes colloquially called "cybering". Channels used to initiate cybersex are not necessarily exclusively devoted to that subject, and participants in any Internet chat may suddenly receive a message with any possible variation of the text "Wanna cyber?", or a request for "C2C/C4C".
