Cyber sex is a so called virtual sex date where several individuals connected with the help of computer networks or the Internet connection exchange messages having sexual meaning and describing sexual actions. Cyber sex is considered to be a type of role play having sexual nature. In such a game the participants pretend that they are involved in sexual intercourse. Computer sex implies that the participants will describe their actions and answer to the messages of the partners in a written form in order to stimulate their sexual fantasies.

Very often cyber sex involves masturbation using different men and women sex toys. Participants usually wear erotic lingerie and may also use anal sex toys if virtual intercourse is accomplished with the help of video chat.  The quality of a cyber sex date depends on the ability of the participants to arouse a bright mental images and pictures in the mind and imagination of the partners. Cyber sex is practiced either among the individuals having intimate relationships, for instance, between geographically separated lovers, or among people who were not introduced to each other in the real world and met in cyberspaces. Very often participants remain anonymous to each another.
It is known that cyber sex is usually accomplished in online chat rooms with the help of messaging systems, webcams, Skype and online games. The more accurate definition of cyber sex, whether real life masturbation using men and women sex toys must take place for the computer sex intercourse, is up for discussion.