Love Online
Emotions on the Internet

This book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.

Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (Author)

9780521832960, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 January 2004

302 pages
21.6 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.539 kg

'How better to enhance the higher pleasures of philosophy than with the gratifications of voyeurism? Just such an occasion for compound joys is afforded by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's charming investigation into internet affairs and their implications for the future of love, sex and marriage.' Philosophy in Review

Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in the real world? Is online sex still cheating on your partner? Why do people tell complete strangers their most intimate secrets? What are the rules of engagement? Will online affairs change the monogamous nature of romantic relationships? These are just some of the questions Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev, distinguished writer and academic, addresses in this book, a full-length study of love online. Accessible, shocking, entertaining, enlightening, this book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.

Introduction
1. The seductive space
2. The paradoxical nature of online relationships
3. Emotions on the net
4. Online imagination
5. Privacy, emotional closeness and openness
6. Is it worth it?
7. Flirting on and offline
8. Cyberlove
9. Chatting is sometimes cheating
10. The future of romantic relationships.

Subject Areas: Internet guides & online services [UDB], Psychology [JM], Sociology & anthropology [JH], Cultural studies [JFC], Philosophy [HP], Communication studies [GTC]