Internet Pornography

The internet has vastly changed our society, from the way we are able to access information to what we do with our free time. Yet there’s one aspect of internet culture that is rarely talked about: pornography. I know that a person reading this essay might wonder what would compel an eighteen year-old girl to talk about such a taboo subject in her college English class. And frankly, the answer is much less interesting than one might think. The truth is, I was scrolling through the documentaries offered on Netflix when I saw one called “After Porn Ends.” That inspired me to write about how porn relates to the culture industry. However, I greatly overestimated the amount of print information I would be able to find in Joplin. After going to the …show more content…
Ogas and Gaddam are behavioral scientists who used the internet to conduct what they describe as “The World’s Largest Behavioral Experiment” (xiii). The researchers determined that when people have the illusion of total anonymity they will express their true desires. The first few chapters talk about how internet porn is a great source to see an honest random sampling of all kinds of people. These chapters discuss “Internet Rule #34” otherwise known as, “If you can imagine it, it exists as Internet porn” (7). They use Calvin and Hobbs pornography as an example of an unlikely pornography category that exists (7). I think the examples they give show how porn not only affects culture, but culture affects pornography. This book charts the most searched websites and types of online sexual activity for men and women, with many of the women preferring stories and videos where relationships and romance are the main focus while men tend to prefer graphic sex with images (19). I am hoping to use this source to identify the differences between men and women when it comes to viewing porn and to gain insight into how culture affects pornography and vice