Cybersex: nuove forme di dipendenza sessuale

Journal title RIVISTA DI SESSUOLOGIA CLINICA
Author/s Valentina Cosmi, Luca Pierleoni, Chiara Simonelli, Adele Fabrizi
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/1
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 63-78 File size 86 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSC2009-001003
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Cybersex: new kinds of sexual addiction - Sexual and internet addiction represent a rapidly growing phenomenon in the industrialized countries. The union between these clinical diseases has contributed to create new addiction forms, as cybersex addiction and cyber-relational addiction. Despite the poor diagnostic classification on this matter, the scientific debate is high pitched and thought-provoking. The different causes of these phenomenon and their heterogeneity suggest the adoption of different intervention strategies for clinical treatment of subjects with these kind of diseases, to take into account the individual needs and peculiarity.

Key words: sexual addiction, internet, cybersex, compulsion, sexual dysfunctions, diagnostic criteria.

Parole chiave: dipendenza sessuale, internet, sesso virtuale, compulsione, disfunzioni sessuali, criteri diagnostici.

Valentina Cosmi, Luca Pierleoni, Chiara Simonelli, Adele Fabrizi, Cybersex: nuove forme di dipendenza sessuale in "RIVISTA DI SESSUOLOGIA CLINICA" 1/2009, pp 63-78, DOI: 10.3280/RSC2009-001003