This is bigger than i thought!
Wow! Reflecting on sex in cyberspace! This topic is not as easy as I thought it would be. After reading the readings I am realising that sex in cyberspace and the issues surrounding it are relatively new to an average person who hears about it.
In this day and age sex in cyberspace can mean all different things and appeal to all different types of people, a well known cybersex phenomenon is online porn, with it being the biggest revenue making industry online. Another not so well known area of sex in cyberspace is that of the second life virtual world.
The virtual world of second life and everything that goes on inside it makes people question and start to wonder if what is happening real or is it just that virtual. If I go by my previous blog and say that shared experience creates reality then everything in second life should reality, but is sex in second life really sex? For some it probably is as close as the real thing they are ever going to get and for others its just a bit of fun. There are some downfalls of sex in second life for example once the sexual script has been chosen and two avatars are engaging in their activity then you cannot change what the script is programmed to do, as said by Levinson p.150 “Spontaneity, in other words is scripted”. The plus sides are anything is possible including even penis and breast sizes, and there is a lot of money to be made, real and imaginary.
However sex in cyber space is not always fun and games and it doesn’t always stay in the cyber world for adult eyes only. The content that is available on the internet for anyone to see leads to the discussion of whether or not the internet is a safe place for children to spend hours of time roaming the net and doing what they want and watching what they want. It makes sense to think that the children of today are the most internet savvy of the modern world so it would be just as easy for them to access cyber sex as it would for an adult, not even at the library is a child safe from inappropriate content, but in fairness it is imposable to regulate everything on the internet.
With this being said the likelihood of young people becoming addicted to pornography is of prime concern in the article ‘internet porn: worse than crack?’ the comments that were made in the article do raise some good points about whether this new and attractive industry could potentially become an addiction that is worse than gambling, drugs and alcohol addiction in ten years time? I thought it was interesting to note this statement by Layden "The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behaviors," Layden said. "To have drug pumped into your house 24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it -- it's a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts who will never have the drug out of their mind."
I have learnt that sex in cyberspace has so many forms and implications that it is impossible to cover them all, but a new thing I have learnt is that women are massively overlooked as a large percentage engaging in cyber sex.
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