o.com: Cybersex Addiction

Melanie Wood/Nick Orchard
Stranger Productions/Soapbox Productions
45 minutes • 2005
Also available on DVD

o.com: Cybersex Addiction is a cautionary tale of the Internet's profound effect on human sexuality. Each day, hundreds of thousands of individuals access the Internet to make sexual contact with each other without ever having met eye-to-eye or having said a simple hello. In that most intimate of human interactions, sexual encounters, the boundaries no longer exist between computer and human. o.com: Cybersex Addiction is the story of real people whose virtual worlds become more compelling, more “real” than the outside world. Two Canadian professionals—a computer tech-support worker and a lawyer so affected that he entered a treatment program—share their stories of battling what psychologists refer to as one of the most rapidly growing addictions. Cybersex addicts carry a message for all of us about technology's ability to accelerate our alienation from each other.

Subject(s): Addiction, Human resources, Internet, Mental health, Sexuality