Whether people admit to it or not, most people watch porn. In
this day and age of internet, teens are introduced to pornography at young
ages. Pornography is apparent in advertisements, television shows, and news
broadcasts.
If you flip through any magazine odds are that you would see
some kind of sexualized picture of a model, actor, actress, or average person. Whether
it is on the red-carpet events or Sports Illustrated or Playboy magazines, most
images leave little to the imagination. Gamer and theorist on YouTube, MatPat, expressed
in a recent live stream how in his early career of making videos, a video with
a more click bait thumbnail was seen to have not only more views but reach a
popular page on different websites multiple times. This infers that people are attacked to more "risky" photos.
In many South Park episode,
viewers see how men act when the subject of porn in brought up in discussions,
going as far as lying about their devious acts and trying to act innocent, and
finding talking about it uncomfortable.
In the documentary, The
Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships, Professor
Gail Dines infers that aspects of pornography leak into the real world, as
people cannot separate fantasy from reality. The fantasy of pornography is made
to look glamorous in the eyes of the viewer. People who are more open to porn
act like the girls are okay with how they treated in videos and blur lines
between really life and their fantasy world. On twitter performer Nikki Hearts
mentioned how a fan groped her wife, Leigh Raven, who is another performer in
the industry. This can be interpreted as women being sexually objectified based
on they work.
A look on the Twitter of members of the porn industry show
the hate people have for them as the highlight their haters and brush it off referring
to their source of income. Where someone would think that these people are just
for graphic content not suitable for all ages, a look through social media show
their interests pertaining to politics, animals, family and other “safe for
work” content.
Pornography seems to be one of many types of media that most people seem to be in tune to. Many women in the porn industry are seen to be not a human being, but a sex object. When men on the other hand, are shown as the dominators, and the ones always able to take control. While young people, to a certain extent, acquire knowledge of any types of sexuality from their parents, and even more so, from their same-sex peers, the media has seemed to be identified as an important source of knowledge for the physical, social, and emotional aspects of dating, romance, and sex. Today’s youth entertainment media including a vast number of movies, TV, magazines, pop music, and music videos are targeted at a teenage audience and provide a numerous number of messages on falling in love, relationships, and sexual desires; therefore, the media may be able to shape sexual attitudes, values, and practices. While most parents are eagerly trying to push the end of the internet, with its easy access and highly explicit sexual content, it just seems to become another source of information. Even though the pornography extent of media has made numerous amount of changes I do believe there is no way to stop today’s youth from the pornography messages.
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