Current and Emerging Aspects of Cybersexuality

Dear Colleagues,

Since the early 1990s, researchers, educators, and health professionals have expressed concerns about the impact of the Internet on human sexuality. Human sexuality refers to the broad spectrum of concepts and variables that make people sexual beings, including but not limited to their sexual behaviors, experiences, interests, preferences, attitudes, knowledge, health, and well-being. Rapid evolutions in digital, communication, and interactive technologies have expanded the ways in which people can, and do, use Internet or data-connected technologies for sexual purposes. However, people’s cybersexuality is not in isolation from their offline sexuality; their technology-mediated sexual activities likely interact with, and contribute to, their offline health and well-being. In the context of high-paced technological changes, research from health, psychology, and education on cybersexuality has lagged. The purpose of this Special Issue is to assemble current research on the state of contemporary and emerging aspects of cybersexuality—that is, human sexuality as it relates to the Internet, cyberspace, data-based communication technologies, and/or emerging interactive technologies. We especially encourage submissions that include qualitative or quantitative data collection or synthesis. Sample topics might include (but are not limited to):

• Experience, outcomes, or predictors of technology-mediated sexual interaction, online sexual activities, cybersex, sexting, virtual sex, haptic sex;
• Artificial intelligence and/or robotics and human sexuality;
• Digital and emerging technologies in clinical, educational, health interventions or service deliver contexts related to sexual health;
• Forensic aspects of cybersexuality as they relate to health, psychology, and/or education;
• Virtual reality, augmented reality sexual activities, fantasies, preferences, assessment;
• Developmental aspects of cybersexuality;
• Cybersexuality and relationships;
• Sexuality on or via social media or social networking;
• Advances in research methods for investigating cybersexuality.

We invite expressions of interests via a one page statement of intent by email to kshaughn@uottawa.ca.

Dr. Krystelle Shaughnessy
Guest Editor

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• technology-mediated sexual interactions
• sexting
• cybersex
• haptic sex
• digisexuality
• online sexual activities
• cybersexuality