Mass Media in Malaysia

Pornography is a word that is used widely across the world. It is used as a topic of jokes on television sitcoms or as a topic of distress in various religious settings. But, what are the real effects of pornography on our international society? Up until the 1900’s, the dominate media outlets of pornography were through magazines, videos, DVS’s and television. However, since the intention of the Internet and Smartphone cell phones, these sexual visuals have been by nearly every individual to walk the earth. Every country on every continent ways of exploring all types of pornography.

The internet offers material to a child that is important to their education and upbringing, and it provides them with promise and hope in this new age of technology. It is also a source of concern; the internet provides children with the vulnerability of exposure to sexually explicit materials. This essay will cover the ways in which the exposure to sexually explicit content can corrupt the future generation of children, in which ways in can influence their future and future decisions, and how the ‘pornification’ of society is damaging the children. Searching for pornographic material or sexual content is as easy as searching the word sex into any search bar, where it will come along with videos, photos, or even chatrooms.

The easy accessibility of pornography and long term exposure to it from an early age can lead to damaging views about women or even correlate with violence and sex crimes. Young males especially are targeted and pressured by peers and society to consume porn and throughout time, may become desensitized to the brutality, violence and degradation depicted in it. Now that does not necessarily mean every male will go out and commit a sex crime, but it has been studied that males who view porn frequently have less empathy for rape victims and may exhibit aggressive behavior and or hold negative opinions about women. In order for these increasingly negative attitudes towards women, the policies and regulations surrounding how easy it is to find porn, very much need to be altered. Pornography can play a major role in affecting the brains of young males who watch it, and by result can influence them to be violent towards women.

The pornification (or alternatively pornographication) of the social world has created lasting effects in the lives of people that they must deal with every day (Dines 1998, p. 164). Pornification is the process by which the social and cultural world is sexualised. This occurs through the expansion of media technology and the pornography industry, as well as changes in media regulations and restrictions which allow pornographic imagery to intrude into public spaces (Tyler 2011, p. 79). This essay will offer explanations for why the pornification of the social world is occurring, how the phenomenon differs from a freedom of expression issue and is instead considered a sociological issue, what consequences and harm arise from these explanations, and will offer social measures that can be adopted in order to deal with the issue. Pornification has occurred in almost every realm of the social world, including in its unaltered form on the Internet, social media, marketing, advertising, music, fashion, sport, and art. However, this expansion of easily accessible pornified content is a stark and confronting challenge for our social world.

The omnipresence of pornography in today’s society has increased extramentally over the past few decades. What is available over the internet is remarkably unrestricted and available to anyone who looks for it. This paper will cover how and what the messages on sexuality that are being conveyed to today’s society,

Pornography is the explicit, sexual images that we wish to protect our children from, but there are other ways. It is estimated that sexually explicit sites are the only sites on the Web making money, even though there is so much competition. Using this information we can assume that the majority of the people on the Internet want and use this pornography at their own leisure and are not at all offended by it in the slightest. Further research has shown that in Australia 70% of (the) people want X-rated material readily available. There is a market out there for such material and if the Internet is censored, many successful businesses will become ‘unacceptable’ to the rules and guidelines set by the censors, but if we want it, it should be allowed to be accessible.

Mass media is an extensive word used for all the forms of technology through which information can be disseminated. Mass media refers to the communication devices which are used to converse and interact with a large number of audiences in various ways and languages. It has become an inseparable part of our lives, be it the pictorial messages of the earlier times or the high technology media available today. Apart from entertainment, mass media also is an effective way of communication, spreading information, advertising, marketing, and in general, of expressing and sharing views, opinions, and ideas.

“Experts say today that there really is no way children are not going to see it. Those who become addicted to this risk free form of sex run a risk of another and greater kind; They risk the loss of love in a world where only love brings happiness. About 11% of all internet visits are to these sites.” What is this unnatural destruction and how do we stop it from entering our minds? Pornography, according to the dictionary, is sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal, as well as the production of such material. More specifically, books, photographs, magazines, art, or music designed to excite sexual impulses and considered by public authorities or public opinion as in violation of

One of the problems caused by censorship is one with sites deemed as pornographic. Parents reasonably do not want their children to view this content. As a preventative measure, censors believe that such sites should not be viewed by anyone on the internet. Instead of banning every website that contains content to be even slightly offensive, society must research better preventative measures to halt the viewing of such content by specific audiences. This will allow for the viewing of these sites for appropriate audiences.

The Internet is a global network of vast information. With a few clicks, an individual can have access to up to 200 million web-sites filled with educational and recreational information. The Internet is not regulated in anyway (Carnegie Library 1). It is accessible throughout the entire world from the North to the South, to the early morning sunrise and dark sunsets. Different ethnicity and backgrounds come together linked upon this network resembling a connection of one body in unity. Sadly, issues arise creating concern for users, focusing particularly on minors. Pornography is one of the inappropriate materials on the Internet for minors. This material is harmful to young impressionable minds. Pornography is tearing and

Pornography for years have been an easy access for pretty much people of all ages to watch freely on the internet (Phillips, 2014). So

In recent years, pornography has established itself as perhaps the most controversial topic arising out of the use of the Internet. The easy availability of this type of sexually explicit material has caused a panic among government officials, family groups, religious groups and law enforcement bodies and this panic has been perpetuated in the media.

“Never before in history of telecommunications media in the United States has so much indecent (and obscene material been so easily accessible by so many minors in so many American homes with so few restrictions” (qtd in “Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse”). The problem addressed in the quote by the U.S. Department of Justice is pornography, a 10 billion dollar industry, has made its way from discreet taboo to something that is today considered acceptable and even common. With the internet being such a common tool, it is no surprise that there is easy access to sexually explicit material. The widespread accessibility and usage of pornography has changed people’s outlook on the normality of watching such sexually explicit material, and

“I believe and hope that Playboy [has] played some small part in changing the values — social and sexual — of our time," (Gross). Hugh Hefner made his goal to change our society. His goal, as we can see through our culture, was accomplished. He ultimately changed our culture in the way people interpret sexuality to what we have accepted in our sexual exploits. The word, pornography in Greek times meant prostitute. Today, referring to “porn” means emphasizing the sensuous or sensational aspects of a non-sexual subject in stimulating an impulsive interest in their audience. Just as the word pornography has evolved, our acceptance of the word has evolved as well. Ultimately, the acceptance, normalization, and desensitization we have towards pornography have changed over time…and not for the better. Consequently, we must identify the problem with pornography, next we will uncover the effects that pornography has caused, and finally, we will find solutions to our porn addiction.

Mass media is a media intended for a large audience. It may take the form of broadcast media, as in the case of television and radio, or print media, like newspapers and magazines. Internet media can also attain mass media status, and many media outlets maintain a web presence to take advantage of the ready availability of Internet in many regions of the world. Some people also refer to it as the “mainstream media,” referencing the fact that it tends to stick to prominent stories which will be of interest to a general audience, sometimes ignoring controversial breaking news. Many people around the world rely on this form of media for news and entertainment, and globally, it is a huge industry.