Sex Chat

Sex chat refers to sexual conversations between two persons over the Internet, either commercially, or for mutual pleasure, for example by separated lovers. Such conversations can be highly graphic and are not recommended for sensitive or easily offended persons.

Sex chat can be done casually by two willing individuals over public chat systems such as IRC, or it can be done through a professional service where one of the parties pays the other to conduct the conversation. Pay services are similar to the phone sex services, except that they usually involve typing instead of talking and the person being paid is usually visible on screen via a web cam.

During the course of a sex chat session, the partner may fantasize about doing something which they obviously cannot ("I am touching you now"), or they may pretend to be doing something which could actually be happening ("I am touching myself"), or actually do it. Simulated activities can range from masturbation to sexual intercourse, but can also include sado-masochistic fantasies. Many Internet sex chat services are highly specialized: nurses fetish, gay sex, mature women, humiliation etc. The spectrum of phone sex offers reflects the wide and often bizarre spectrum of human sexual behavior.

Sex chat over the Internet is relatively cheap due to the high competition and is usually aggressively advertised. Parents sometimes find out that their children have engaged in such activities and it is adviseable to install software that blocks access to such sites.