Has The Internet Made Porn Socially Acceptable?
Author: Paul Carruthers

In a world dominated by computers and technology we take a look
at what effect the Internet has had on people's attitude towards
sex and pornography.

Pornography and prostitution is nothing new to the world, it
has been around for years and years and will carry on to do so,
of recent times it appears to be everywhere, sex shops in high
streets, top shelf magazines in newsagents, recognised red
light zones, legal brothels, mobile phone videos and even porn
star name t-shirts are used to promote pornography.

Pornography has had many effects on society, it has recently
been suggested that violent porn should have a blanket ban due
to rapists being influenced by such films. A rapist also
admitted that a girl wearing a FCUK t-shirt inspired him to
rape her and these are just some of the bad effects of having a
wide range of highly accessible porn.

Whether it is legal or illegal there will always be
prostitution in society due to there being a high demand of men
willing to pay for sex and women prepared to accept that money.
Brothels have a mixture of good and bad press as they are seen
to confine the issue to a particular area, cut curb crawling
and sexual activity in public places.

If you go back to the early 1900's sex before marriage was
looked upon as the devil's work, the many unwanted pregnancies
due to the lack of protection were dealt with down back alleys
in an inhumane fashion. These abortions were a very painful
experience and managed to keep many women away from pre-marital
sex.

Instead of sexual intercourse many lovers decided to perform
what was referred to at the time as safe sex, this was a form
of foreplay involving the man simulating sex with the females
arm pit. Even though this did manage to cut down the unwanted
pregnancies the view of pre-marital sex and pornography amongst
the world was looked upon in bad light.

In these days porn was in literature with racy stories and even
these were viewed upon as revolting and unnatural by most, there
were few pictures and drawings that existed but nevertheless
they did exist, even dating back to the Egyptians with
hieroglyphics.

The 60's was a start for sex becoming more acceptable due to
the free love period and hippy influence, cannabis was a factor
as roadies and hippy's turned to cannabis to relax and lose
their inhibitions. Pornography snowballed from there sparking a
huge industry that started out in theatres where nudity was
allowed on stage if there was no movement, it then proceeded to
still images strung together to simulate movement.

Then along came pornography magazines which became popular
amongst many ages of men with titles such as playboy and
mayfair dominating the market, the amount of money in this
industry is clear to see if Hugh Hefner's playboy mansion is
anything to go by.

Pornography by this time had a following as single men used it
to release any sexual tension built up, although many men were
too embarrassed to buy pornography magazines and still the
market was socially viewed as inappropriate and looked down
upon by many.

The internet became main stream in the mid nineties which
opened a gateway for people to access pornography anonymously
and in the privacy of their own home in the years to come. This
proved successful with money in the industry reaching a record
high, and pornography reaching the homes of millions of people,
the current figure in the UK is that a quarter of Britons view
porn across the internet.

Men across the world viewed pornography across the internet and
felt more confident about viewing such images and movies as they
could see the global demand for this market and people started
realising that it is perfectly natural. Men had started to
openly chat about porn, some found it funny, some informative,
some repulsive and for some it became their life.

With just soft-core porn available, UK residents visited
European countries like Holland and Germany where they were
years ahead of the UK in the social acceptance of porn.
Hardcore porn was banned in the UK until September 2000; the
popularity of internet porn had played its part in the decision
to legalise hardcore porn.

The breakthrough of playing and transferring media through
mobile phones enforced the fact that porn HAS become acceptable
in many walks of life as 60% of men own pornography on their
mobile phones. This figure without the internet would be
considerably lower without the internet as the internet is over
90% of the population's source of porn.

Amongst some, pornography and prostitution are viewed upon
similarly although there is a definitive difference, in the
majority of countries pornography is legal whilst prostitution
is not and then there is the fact that most pornography is
viewed/created in privacy whereas prostitution can be a very
public affair, although both are welcomed by people across the
world.

There can be no arguments that pornography has become socially
acceptable, the internet has had a major impact on this due to
being able to access adult content of any nature anonymously in
the privacy of your own home. This has paved the way for other
areas in the porn industry to grow alongside internet porn and
help turn this market into the multi billion pound industry
that it is today.

Like it or not porn is now socially acceptable amongst the
majority of people under the age of 30.


About The Author: Paul Carruthers is the owner of
http://www.whatsyours.co.uk and
http://www.whatisyourpornstarname.com