How Technology Affects Relationships

It today’s society, pornography is a fast-growing epidemic that is evident in families, marriages, and teenage lifestyles. Supporters of pornography claim that it can be used as a tool to teach students about sex education. However, critics claim that pornography is unjust, influential, and dehumanizing. Pornography is unjust because it has the potential to break down intimate relationships and marriages. It can also have negative effects on children in particular young boys. More and more young boy’s minds are being influenced by pornography which is leading to misinterpretations about how to have a healthy sexual relationship. Most importantly, pornography dehumanizes women and it exploits children. Women and children are being victimized for the sheer pleasure of someone viewing pornography.

The article supported their claim through collecting data from the website NevaEvaLand, a popular social media page used by girls in low-income areas such as Atlanta, Georgia, to display how different sexual scripts influenced the way girls acted on the internet. Stokes found that there were five groups that most girls would label themselves a part of the, “Freaks, Virgins, Down-Ass Chick, Pimpette, and Resisters” (Stokes 124). After analyzing the five different sexual scripts, the author described the attitude each person carried towards sex and how they acted on the internet. Her reasoning for why the girls acted in the manner they did online was because they were looking for different pleasures out of sexual partners. The Freaks and Down-Ass Chicks were more promiscuous and expressed that on their homepage, while those such as Virgins were finding someone who was fine with abstaining from sex. The data collected made her reasoning effective by providing credible support to her

227). Among these females, 27.8% were forced to be sexually photographed or filmed by their partners, 75% were forced to consume pornography and 80.5% claimed that they were forced to re-enact sexual acts from pornography (Moreau et al. 227). With 9.4% having reported that they experienced forced sexual relations with other individuals, 38.5% forced with other couples, 53.8% forced into sexual relations with other individuals including family and 69.2% having experienced prostitution through the force of their partners (Moreau et al. 227). With most of these statistics demonstrating forced exposure of pornography to an individual, it could potentially lead to the solidification of sexual scripts involving the alteration of values and such. Which slowly and forcefully educates the females of subordination and objectification. Forcefully creating beliefs that women are tools for sexual gratification as a normality of society. Overall demonstrating that the exposure of pornography has positive correlations with the increasing of sexual

As of 2012, approximately 95% of all americans between 12 and 17 years old are online and ¾ access the internet by cell phone, tablet or laptop. ⅕ of United States teenagers who regularly log onto the internet say they have received unwanted sexual solicitation through the web. Only 25% of those have told a parent. Sexual predators on the internet tend to be between 18-55. There target are usually between the age of 11 and 15. About 75% of children are willing to share personal information online making it easier for sexual predators to find children.

What starts out as accidental exposure to sexual media can become a full-blown addiction (Kistler & Lee, 2010; Ouytsel, Ponnet, & Walrave, 2014). Early use of pornography is correlated with higher compulsivity as an emerging adult (Giordano, & Cashwell, 2017; Stinson, 2010; Willoughby, Carroll, Nelson, & Padilla-Walker, 2014; Willoughby, Young-Petersen, & Leonhardt, 2018; Ybarra & Mitchell, 2005). Virtually every individual who lives in modern society will be exposed to sexual media; even those who say they abstain still have a 20% likelihood of seeing pornography and sexual media incidentally (Willoughby, et al.,

First of all, data shows that 75% of young people reported seeing people kissing or having sex in TV shows or movies they’ve watched. The data conducted showed that 69% of young people have listened to sexual music. 19% played games with sexual activity and 25% found sexual material

In this generation we tend to use social media networks, such as facebook and twitter to communicate with our friends and family. Has social media replaces all other forms of communication?

Pornography is an issue that has generated serious speculation; it has grown from a state of insignificance to being a major social issue in most parts of the world. The period from early 1960’s has been labeled as the modern pornography wave. It is a period that saw major discussions in all aspects of the phenomenon from terminology, definitions, the level of sexual content, the economic impact, and most importantly its effects. This paper seeks to address the issue of pornography from the perspective of male participation, consumption, and the interrelated issues. The paper includes a review of two articles; the first article is a scholarly article from a peer reviewed journal, while the second one is a popular media

Victor B. Cline who specialized in treating patients with pornography addiction writes, “The first change that happened was an addiction effect. The porn-consumers got hooked. Once involved in pornographic materials, they kept coming back for more and still more…. The second phase was an escalation effect. With the passage of time, the addicted person required rougher, more explicit, more deviant, and “kinky” kinds of sexual material to get their “highs” and “sexual turn-ons.” It was reminiscent of individuals afflicted with drug addictions.… The third phase was desensitization. Material … which was originally perceived as shocking, taboo-breaking, illegal, repulsive, or immoral, in time, came to be seen as acceptable and commonplace.… The fourth phase was an increasing tendency to act out sexually the behaviors viewed in the pornography, including … frequenting massage parlors (Cline).” American culture has normalized addictive behavior by saying it’s “healthy” and “educational.” Pornography teaches boys and men to dehumanize women and children and turn them into objects of sexual fulfillment. It is threatening to society when young boys and men are in create find fulfillment from sexual gratification whether it be through pornographic content, paid sexual encounters, or forced sexual intercourse. When men actively engage in pornography it creates a narcissistic personality. Rather than seeing a young girl with

The term sexuality here in the U.S. has become a culture that mirrors an explicit image of sexual behaviors all in the media, TV, news, magazines, etc. Sexual behaviors have evolved into a type of valid entertainment; sort of similar to gambling, going to sports games or watching TV/movie. “Hypersexuality is a highly debated topic among psychiatrists and sexual medicine researchers, who have different opinions about whether "too much" sexual activity is truly a disorder, for either sex.”; according to Staff Writer of Live Science, Bahar Gholipour. Statistics and studies shows that 72 million people utilize the internet for sexually explicit literature satisfaction as well as 42.7% of internet users watch pornography (Timothy W. Fong, 2006)

In the United States, it is widely available—pornographic websites are highly popular and get more traffic then Netflix, Twitter and Amazon combined—yet it is publicly viewed with disgust in a profound love-hate relationship. Since pornography appeared on the Internet, the accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of consuming visual sexual stimuli have increased and attracted millions of users and crossed into public health in many areas, including risk behaviors, sexual exploitation and gender roles and behavior. Yet only a few people consider pornography use as public health issues even though it can pose specific risks for its direct users and the user’s partner since pornography consumption bears resemblance with reward-seeking, novelty-seeking and addictive behavior. Like it or not (or shall I say, censored or not?), pornography has such a presence in our daily lives across the globe, yet few debates and effective policy actions have taken place to deal this dilemma due to the lingering taboo over the subject, while the nature, dynamics and impacts of pornography and its relevant sexual behaviors on society remains largely

According to a poll of 10 to 16 year olds done by the advocacy group Children Now, "77 percent say that there is too much premarital sex on T.V., while 62 percent say sex on T.V. and in movies influences kids to have sex when they are too young" (Clark, "Sex, Violence"). The influences of the media is felt everywhere and especially in terms of human sexuality. Everything from TV commercials to the newspaper has some form of sex in it, usually to keep the audience interested. In modern society, the changing times as well as media executives wanting more ratings(and therefore money) have lead to teenagers more willing to try sexual acts at a younger age and the country being more openminded about sexual issues.

According to the article “Is Porn a Threat to Public Health?” “The average age at which boys first see porn has dropped to 10 1/2” (Lo, par. 2). Many Americans would see this statistic as problematic and believe such exposure harms young people. However, there are several reasons why that is incorrect. Benefits of exposure to pornography include the minimal risks of sexual behavior and watching porn, the criminalization of serious sexual acts and crimes, and the multiple benefits of watching or participating in sexual acts. Therefore, pornography and/or sexual acts in teenagers pose minimal risks and should not be governmentally regulated or criminally punished.

Pornography has been around for several years now, but during the last 10 years or so, the access to it has become much easier. This is because during this period many people have access to Internet, which makes it faster and easier to go to a website and watch pornography. Nobody has to go to the trouble of going to an “Adult store” to buy the movies or magazines. The companies that work with pornography acknowledged this and focused their efforts and capital in something called “online pornography”. As a consequence, the number of people getting access to pornography has increased a lot, and a high percentage of these people are

Studies have shown that pornography has several significant effects on an individual. A study in 2000 conducted by Oddone-Paolucci, Genuis, and Violato revealed information on the correlation between pornography consumption and behaviour (Oddone-Paolucci et al., 2000). Out of 12,323 people, eighty-five percent of people were sampled from the U.S.A, eleven percent from Canada, and two studies were done in Europe (Oddone-Paolucci et al., 2000). Overall, the analysis of the results showed “a thirty-one percent increase in the risk of sexual deviancy, a twenty-two percent increase in the risk of sexual perpetration, a twenty percent increase in the risk of experiencing negative intimate relationships, and a thirty-one percent increase in the