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Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity
The Journal of Treatment & Prevention
Volume 7, 2000 - Issue 1-2
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Compulsive Cybersex: The New Tea Room

Mark F. Schwartz
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Stephen Southern Masters & Johnson Clinic, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Pages 127-144 | Published online: 08 Nov 2007
 
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Abstract

Cybersex has become the new tea room for meeting anonymous partners and engaging in a fantasy world in which survivors of childhood abuse escape the demands of daily life as well as the pain and shame of past trauma. Compulsive cybersex was described as a survival mechanism involving dissociative reenactment and affect regulation. Descriptive data from a clinical population of cybersex abusers were reviewed to construct four subtypes of cybersex addiction. Treatment strategies for each of the subtypes were recommended.

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