When discussing internet pornography, people can take it many different ways, because there are so many different aspects to internet pornography. So where does it all start? Well first off one of the most common pornography you can find on the internet starts with females. There are many websites out there dedicated to naked girls taking sexual photos and even videos of themselves, by themselves, or with someone else, either male or female. One can also find sites dedicated to male pornography or even child pornography. Im sure while browsing the internet every one has come across some sort of pornography site. Whether it be because you have visited one, or a pop up has occurred, or even that you have misspelled something in Google and it directed you to a porn site.
Porn on the internet can pretty much be seen any where these days, and pretty much any one can access it either if they are male, female or of underage (Ferree). Banks (2007) suggests that there are three types of pornography users and they are, recreational users, where they are unlikely to experience any adverse affects from the online experience and usually stumble across there first encounter by accident. The sexual compulsive type, where those who are of this category pursue alone activities at the risk of their jobs, relationships and social lives. And finally there are the risks users, risk users are the ones that use sexual online experiences because they are either depressed or stressed. Banks (2007) essay talks mainly about pornography access at public libraries, and states that over last few decades with increasing access to technology on average 14 million people spend hours in libraries everyday accessing the internet and among those 14 million people are individuals who spend up to 10 hours deeply immersed in online erotica.
Because online erotic is becoming increasingly more sort after and popular Ryan Singel offers the suggestion that internet porn is becoming worse than crack (A drug). And he continues to say that pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their obsessions than cocaine addicts do. He also mentions that the internet has now become the perfect drug delivery system because no one knows who you are, you are aroused and can have this drugged pumped into you 24/7 .
But do we really have the right to call internet porn a drug? One may look at it as a simple hobby that they enjoy encountering in like say, a sport. Other may say it is defiantly a drug and that lethal one at that, and some may say it’s just a disgusting habit. Although some people like to turn a blind eye to internet porn it is something that we all have to take notice of, not only because it is out there and is happening but also for people’s safety. Quite recently we have seen a lot of media on the news about pedophiles, where they will take pictures of naked children and post them on the internet. When seeing this side of pornography how can one not believe that this a dangerous drug?
The realization of internet porn is that it is happening and it is all around us. Even as Banks (2007) says even with the best filters trying to block sites out there is never going to be a good enough filter to block it out completely. It is something that we all have to ask our selves, do we want internet porn to stop? Why do we want it to stop? And how are we going to stop it?
Banks, S. 2007 ‘Your Privacy’s Showing: Pornography at your Local Library’ in A. C. Hall and M. J. Bishop (Eds.) Pop-Porn: Pornography in American Culture, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport
'Internet Porn: Worse than Crack?' by Ryan Singel
'Women and the Web: Cybersex Activity and Implications' by Marnie C. Ferree.
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