Spending the equivalent of a waking day a week downloading pornographic images, sending erotic emails and using webcams to engage in online sex?
Australian researchers would classify you as a cyber-sex surfer - and worry about your state of mental health.
Marcus Squirrell, from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, sounded out 1,325 men who spent over 12 hours a week on internet sex sites and found that over a quarter of them were clinically depressed.
"Thirty per cent had high levels of anxiety and 35 per cent were moderately to severely stressed, which is, of course, extremely high," he told a conference in Melbourne .
The more time his respondents spent in online sexual activity, the worse their level of depression and anxiety.
But his research did not answer the big question: Are those prone to depression and anxiety more likely to become cyber-sex surfers, or does online sexual activity itself make you depressed and anxious?
Australian researchers would classify you as a cyber-sex surfer - and worry about your state of mental health.
Marcus Squirrell, from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, sounded out 1,325 men who spent over 12 hours a week on internet sex sites and found that over a quarter of them were clinically depressed.
"Thirty per cent had high levels of anxiety and 35 per cent were moderately to severely stressed, which is, of course, extremely high," he told a conference in Melbourne .
The more time his respondents spent in online sexual activity, the worse their level of depression and anxiety.
But his research did not answer the big question: Are those prone to depression and anxiety more likely to become cyber-sex surfers, or does online sexual activity itself make you depressed and anxious?
And the questions towards the end of the article open up to many researches ahead available for us to look at. As currently i am doing my study on sleep for publishing, maybe i can do sleep and internet study and anxiety in it as well. I am so ambitious! hehehe... well not bad huh, i have 3 articles lining up for publishing! hehehe.... that make me nerd?! well who cares!
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Interesting. I like that article too :)
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