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Online infidelity is an affair through a digital platform or method, whether text, email, social media or anything else.

The cyber-affair can be solely emotional or it may exchange sensual messages, which can simulate a physical affair. But we also need to talk about when such relationships escalate to the physical.

Dr Eve gets to the crux of the matter, saying: "We have an explosion and a revolution of relationships with technology now. As you know, when any new technology comes on, things change, the old ways get very disrupted, so I became very curious about how love, sexuality and intimacy were being disrupted with technology, and that's when I began to do research into online sexual behaviour and relationships.

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