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For example he says, “... dialing 1900 and seven other digits can put you in intimate contact with pre op transsexuals in wet suits who will talk to you as long as the credit limit on your MasterCard stays in the black” (Van Der Leun 477). Humor is used here by saying all these “men” call expecting to talk to some young, hot girl, but in reality, they could be speaking to another guy. It is showing how people’s fantasies are not always what they seem and how erotica has gotten so out of hand that people do not care as long as their fantasy is fulfilled.
Sarcasm is also used to justify the reasoning; “But of all these: food, shelter, sex, and money, sex is the one drive that can elicit immediate consumer response” (Van Der Leun
477). Van Der Leuns’ sarcastic tone in this quote shows how society has come to depend and rely on sex and money. Women have learned that sex is power, and many women have
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learned that they can make a huge amount of money by doing these sexual acts to lease other men. They degrade themselves in order to obtain money for their shelter and food. He states how most people have become so wrapped up in the thought of being rich and getting …show more content…
Making this, it is essentially easy for the consumer to mass produce and put out into the world to view. Van Der Leun gets a harsher tone when going into depth of how the internet world is being consumed by online sex. “A vast hue and cry resounds over the nets to rootout the offending material and burn those who promulgated it. High tech is being perverted to low ends, they cry” (Van Der Leun 476). His overall tone in this quote shows how passionate he can be to prove how highly the people looking at this material view it. It is saying that the people that look at these sites view it as some sort of genius idea when really it is demeaning and insulting to women. Within using the words resounds over and burn he is saying how people praise the work that is being done but then he goes on to use the words offending material showing his true point of how this should not be grouped with praise. Diction can be used in various different ways to get the writers point across. Van Der
Leun doesn’t only use words but punctuation as well. Such as in the last paragraph on page
477 he uses quotations around the word “adult” and again in the second paragraph on
Sarcasm is also used to justify the reasoning; “But of all these: food, shelter, sex, and money, sex is the one drive that can elicit immediate consumer response” (Van Der Leun
477). Van Der Leuns’ sarcastic tone in this quote shows how society has come to depend and rely on sex and money. Women have learned that sex is power, and many women have
Gower 2
learned that they can make a huge amount of money by doing these sexual acts to lease other men. They degrade themselves in order to obtain money for their shelter and food. He states how most people have become so wrapped up in the thought of being rich and getting …show more content…
Making this, it is essentially easy for the consumer to mass produce and put out into the world to view. Van Der Leun gets a harsher tone when going into depth of how the internet world is being consumed by online sex. “A vast hue and cry resounds over the nets to rootout the offending material and burn those who promulgated it. High tech is being perverted to low ends, they cry” (Van Der Leun 476). His overall tone in this quote shows how passionate he can be to prove how highly the people looking at this material view it. It is saying that the people that look at these sites view it as some sort of genius idea when really it is demeaning and insulting to women. Within using the words resounds over and burn he is saying how people praise the work that is being done but then he goes on to use the words offending material showing his true point of how this should not be grouped with praise. Diction can be used in various different ways to get the writers point across. Van Der
Leun doesn’t only use words but punctuation as well. Such as in the last paragraph on page
477 he uses quotations around the word “adult” and again in the second paragraph on