Tangled in the Web: Understanding Cybersex from Fantasy to Addiction

by Kimberly S. Young

Have you heard of cybersex? Many Internet users have. It is a recreational activity that can involve activities such as downloading pornography, online sex chat, web cam sex, avatar sex, and sexting all of which can open new doors into human sexuality. When does cybersex become a problem? It may be that a husband is secretly downloading online pornography. It may be a homemaker is having explicit sexual chats with men she meets in chat rooms. It may be a teenager is sending naked pictures over her iPhone. It may be a couple is separating or divorcing because of an online affair. Tangled in the Web helps you understand the nature of sexual behavior online. The book outlines how online sex can become addictive, how to assess sexually addictive online behavior, and how this behavior can hurt individuals and couples. This book helps you break the habit of Internet sex addiction with dozens of practical and concrete therapy strategies. This book is also helpful to partners of online sex addicts and helps you confront a loved one dealing with online sex addiction and recovery from the hurt and betrayal.

153 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2001

About the author

Kimberly Young is a licensed psychologist, an author, and an internationally-known speaker on Internet addiction. In 1995, she founded the Center for Internet Addiction and since then she has written numerous articles on the topic including four books, Caught in the Net, Tangled in the Web, Breaking Free of the Web, and Internet Addiction: A Handbook for Evaluation and Treatment. She is a professor at St. Bonaventure University and her work has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek, and she has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and ABC World News Tonight. She has written creatively on and off since she was eight-years-old, mainly working on poems and short stories. While recovering from retina re-attachment eye surgery, she was homebound for several months and decided to pursue her creative writing more seriously. The Eighth Wonder is her first novel.