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"When will you be coming home, tonight?" asks Shyam's harried wife. "Honey, I'm stuck in a very important meeting, I'll come home around midnight. I'll make it up to you and the kids on Sunday by taking you on a nice family picnic."
Convinced that Shyam is working late, his wife hangs up. Shyam is actually in a cyber cafe involved in sado-masochistic sex with his virtual cyber partner living in Thailand. Shyam is actually a very affectionate father and gets along very well with his wife. Shyam and his wife make love quite often but his wife is a bit inhibited in bed. Shyam has a fascination for oriental women and wishes for what he terms 'a bolder' sex-life. Since he can't get what he wants in real life, he partially satisfies himself with online S&M sex.

Twenty-one-year old Anindita Ghose feels, "If love is a state of mind, playing sexual mind games with someone other than your partner definitely spells c-h-e-a-t-i-n-g. Indulging in cyber sex reflects an unsatisfied sex life and I would surely feel insulted, inadequate and not to mention furious if I found out that my boyfriend was going about doing it, though I would be far more upset if he was having 'real' sex. So there, cyber sex is a threat to a relationship even though it's unreal in a strange sort of way."

Film artiste Bobby Darling however has a different point of view. When asked if cyber sex is cheating or just a harmless fantasy, he candidly answers, "Cyber sex may not necessarily be harmful. I regularly go to a site where both straight and gay people engage in cyber sex. I am simply trying to relocate abroad and searching for a partner from that site. In my opinion a married person who engages in online cyber sex cannot be termed as an infidel as it is after all virtual sex. A married person can get attracted to someone he meets at a party, but that can't be termed as betrayal, can it? However if a married person has real sex with someone outside marriage it is definitely betrayal."