Internet Addiction – An Online Epidemic?

By his own admission, James Pacenza was spending too much work time in Internet chatrooms, discussing sex in most of them. Business Week reported that Pacenza “goes so far as to call his interest in inappropriate Web sites a form of internet addiction that stems from the post traumatic stress disorder he’s suffered since returning…

Cyber Sex: Getting Tangled in the Web

The Oceano man arrested Saturday morning (11-13-99) at the Santa Barbara bus station may be the first local person to be publicly tangled in the World Wide Web. For those of you who didn’t catch the headline Monday, William Robert O’Brien of Oceano, age 43, allegedly used the Internet to solicit sex from someone who…