Bad Taste, Miasmic Forces, and the Ubiquity of Online Porn
Bad Taste, Miasmic Forces, and the Ubiquity of Online Porn
This chapter focuses on the risk and filth notions of pornography along with its low cultural status. It explores the extensive use of the Internet by pornography distributors and consumers, and dicusses developments in online pornography in the mid 1990s, which are responsible for the increasing dot-com craze. The chapter presents the role of U.S. government regulation practices in the commercialization of sexual content. It presents a discussion about protecting children from exposure to sexual content on the Internet, wherein the Internet is seen as a harmful technological tool for children. The chapter discusses the increase in the volume of online pornography, which it relates to addiction, and discusses the positive effect that filth notions within pornography have on attracting the viewers to pornography websites. It presents arguments regarding pornography’s association with the lower classes, stating that consumers of online pornography do not belong only to the lower classes.
Keywords: online pornography, children, Internet, dot-com craze, sexual content commercialization
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