Does cyber/phone sex with another man/woman count as adultery/infidelity?
While the acts of cyber sex or phone sex are different from physical sexual acts, we believe that anything sexual in nature is an intimacy that is meant only for a husband and wife. In the New Testament, Jesus himself lays out a stricter guideline than the Old Testament laws. He says, “but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28). If Jesus judged merely looking at a woman with a lustful eye as adultery, is it such a leap to assume that He would say the same of our modern means of employing the phone and internet? It is also interesting to note that, according to one source, “evidence proves there is a high correlation between on-line infidelity and subsequent real-time sexual affairs”. Even if one defines sex using its strictest definition, it is still extremely dangerous to be involved in cyber/phone sex and will almost inevitably lead to intimate physical contact.
