"My Thesis" a Iligan City Travel Page by glengyl_iligan

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

In the Philippines, the Revised Penal Code through Article 201 punishes “the authors of obscene literature, published with their knowledge in any form and the editors publishing sex literature”. Punishable by law are: those who exhibit indecent or immoral plays, scenes, acts and more who shall sell, give away or exhibit pictorials, engaging scripture or literature which are offensive to morals. Does this mean that online and private affairs in the Internet and engaging into cyber sex cannot be punished?
The Internet can be an efficient tool for either self-improvement or self-harm. Users can acquire knowledge to full journals with a minimal amount of effort. For others, the Internet meets the need for instant, even constant, companionship. It creates a forum where individuals can gain the online admiration of others with intellectual creativity, regardless of their true position in reality. Surfing the Net can allow people to establish relationships that eliminates loneliness, freeing them from the demands and challenges of traditional friendship. It also leaves them open to a variety of unexpected emotions, such as when their secrets are revealed to their online communities, when they are financially instable, or betrayed in love. (Mahiu, Marlene PhD September 1999)
Cyber sex is the issue to be examined in this paper. It will be discussed both as potentially problematic behaviors evolving from individual's involvement with technology, as well as the resulting issues raises for the feminist psychological community when considering treatment options, both "off and online." This paper, then will describe the behaviors associated with cyber sex and the issues facing practitioners who attempt to ethically approach treatment in face-to-face or virtual environments.
One of the purposes of this paper is to determine the various factors why Cyber sex is continuing to absorb society. Are practitioners lured by the money they can gain? Is it because of the influences of the new technologies? Or the social condition they are experiencing? How can society accept cyber Sex? Are they considering it as their work? These are just few of the questions we will investigate.
Cyber Sex Practitioners are people who engage in chatting depending on the intention they have, it might be for friendship? Love? Or for the Money they can profit? These people despite of age, gender, and marital status they’re still engaging into it.
Statement of the Problem
This study aims to examine cyber sex, its causative factors, the process, the benefits and the problem encountered among selected practitioners in Iligan City. Specifically, it will seek answers to the following questions.

1. What are the socio-demographic profiles of the respondents?
2. What are the factors that led the respondents to engage into this?
3. What are the processes involved?
3.1 What is the Nature of Cyber Intimacy?
3.2 How does it start? In the first chat?
4. What are the consequences of Cyber Intimacy?
4.1 What benefits have been obtained?
4.2 What common problems have been encountered?
5. How do they perceive their future life?

Conceptual and Theoretical Framework

The success proposition theory of George Homans suggested that for all actions taken by persons, the more often a particular action of a person is rewarded, the more likely the person is to perform his action. Generally, it is true that increasing rewards leads to increasing frequent actions. It also coincides with the stimulus proposition that if in the past, the occurrence of a particular stimulus or set of stimuli, has been the occasion on which a persons action has been rewarded, then the more similar the present stimuli are to the past ones, the more likely the person is to perform the action, or some similar action. This is also reinforced by Thibaut and Kelly’s Social exchange theory, or “framework” (Fieldman, 1985:88) prefer to call it, assumes that the existence of a certain group characterized by similar conduct and activities depend upon the participation and satisfaction each one experiences.
Differential association theory of Sutherland, enumerates nine statements that attempts to explain deviancy. In one statement, Sutherland assumes that behavior is learned in interaction with other persons in the process of communication (Thio, Alex, Sociology: An introduction, 1986). This means that learning behavior is like learning other things. It involves communication with words in gesture. Sutherland further assumes that the “principal part of the learning of a certain behavior occurs when intimate personal groups”. This means that one can learn a behavior through his intimate groups, like his friends and neighbors, because he or she associates with them closely and interacts with them directly.
Another focus of this study is the nature of cyber sex, and the influences of intimate groups on the respondents’ decision of becoming a practitioner. This means that the social context on which this study was anchored revolved around the influence of environment and modern technologies with whom the respondent had personally attached.
The implications of these issues comprise the whole conceptualization on which this is based.
Further more, the respondents’ socio-economic characteristics like in come, education and occupation of parents could also factor that pushed the respondents. The absence of more opportunities to earn a living or find extra job. A theoretical assumption states that the higher one’s education the higher is the income.