I have experience something like this but now in the BDSM scene as much as my use of my "empathic skills to attune to the deep emotional goings on at the time." This comes even more into play during online sessions of... whatever you wish to call them . cybersex being to me a negative term.
but i have been told they feel as well as i what is going on. so.. the factual explanation of it to me lies in metaphysical characteristics that most on the board probably won't give a hoot about.
so carry on back to regularly scheduled programing.