A mathematical model to start a discussion on cybersex addiction

Abstract

Cybersex is the use of the Internet and its services to achieve sexual arousal and pleasure. This use, however, can become excessive and uncontrolled. Common consequences of a problematic engagement in online sexual activities are the deterioration of real-life romantic relationships and the occurrence of sexual dysfunctions, even in young population. Here, a simplistic mathematical model based on differential equations is proposed to investigate the impact of cybersex on the human population growth. This model is analysed from a dynamical system theory perspective. This study can be presented in a class on differential equations and it can be the starting point for talking about Internet sex addiction.

KEYWORDS:

• Cybersex
• dynamical system
• internet sex addiction
• population dynamics

MATHEMATIC SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS:

• 34-01
• 34D05
• 37N25
• 92D25

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Funding

LHAM is partially supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) under the grant #302946/2022-5. This study was also supported by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) (finance code 001).