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Research on internet infidelity is a relatively new field of interest.

It is difficult to classify any type of sexual interaction via the internet as infidelity because it lacks the physical aspect.

In their book, " The Philosophy of Sex ", Alan Soble and Nicholas Power speculate about the internet, infidelity and culture, " According to the dominant account in our culture, the paradigm case of what counts as sex is heterosexual intercourse, where a man and women engage in a particularly intimate form of physical contact, in which a penis penetrates a vagina.

This case is paradigmatic in that it organizes social judgments about which other activities count as sexual, and also connects to dominant views about what sex is normal, natural and good.