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Cybersex: A Profile of Addiction and Recovery
Milton S. Magness, D Min, MA Psy, LPC, CSAT, CART
February 17, 2004

The purpose of this project is to explore the scope of compulsive cybersex behavior and identify the most effective methods of limiting or eliminating the behavior. A study was conducted using responses from 133 persons self-identified as having difficulty with compulsive sexual behavior. Study participants were recruited by therapists whose practice focuses in this area and from various 12-step groups related to sexual compulsion/addiction. The resulting data give a profile of the behavior of person who are self-identified as having difficulty with compulsive sexual behavior and well as the scope of that behavior. The data also provide a profile of what such persons do as attempts to achieve freedom from compulsive sexual behavior.

From the time that the Internet was primarily a research tool for academicians, the potential existed for using the medium for something other than scholarly research. With the growth of the Internet, millions of people have discovered they can use their personal computers to access information about things they would perhaps never dream of pursuing outside the anonymity of cyberspace.