The Internet has been synergistically linked to human sexuality since its inception. In fact, pornography was one of the early financial engines4 that helped transform the Internet from a relatively unknown U.S. military research project5 into a burgeoning information, communications, and commercial highway of global proportion.

• Results showed that the men who viewed either of the sexually explicit films displayed more dominance and anxiety, ignored the contributions of their partner more often, touched their partner for longer periods of time, and averted gaze more than the participants who had viewed the non-sexual film. 
            
  • In terms of the degree of risk, the analysis revealed
    • a 31 percent increase in the risk of sexual deviancy,
    • a 22 percent increase in the risk of sexual perpetration,
    • a 20 percent increase in the risk of experiencing negative intimate relationships, and
    • a 31 percent increase in the risk of believing rape myths.
      
• The following observations were made by the lawyers polled with regard to why the Internet had
  played a role in divorces that year:
  • 68 percent of the divorce cases involved one party meeting a new love interest over the
    Internet.
  • 56 percent of the divorce cases involved one party having an obsessive interest in
    pornographic websites.
  •  47 percent of the divorce cases involved one party spending excessive time on the
    computer.
  • 33 percent of the divorce cases cited excessive time communicating in chat rooms

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