History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: Pornography is more popular in red states. Why is that? [View all]sigmasix
(794 posts)This paper points out that cyber porn actually participates in the creation of it's own consumers and further twists the consumer towards a deeply unhealthy re-enforcement of the fantasy ideation. The relationship of the porn consumer to cyber porn is not a "normal", or classic media relationship; the way cyber porn works has nothing to do with healthy human sexual curiosity and fantasy play, rather the conjecture is (and I agree) that cyber porn participates in it's own creation and ideation, re-enforcing an escalating consumption and the notion that the unhealthy aspects of the relationship is normal and functional. Danerous stuff, cyber porn. I'm looking forward to continued discussions about this issue and am hopeful that DU members like yourself and redqueen can point me in the right direction for further education about cutting edge research into this new human-created monster. Thank you once again for this link- it opened my eyes to a subject I quit studying 15 years ago due to short-comings in our understanding about the relationship of emotionally charged media to human behavior and linguistic archetypes. You really can teach an old dog new tricks! I'll be looking for more studies of this type and will share what I find with DUers in the feminist discussion group. I hope that people are able to understand that this isn't just a feminist issue, but an American health and media scourge issue as well. I wonder if Faux "news" uses the same sort of approach in the dissemination of it's lies and hyperbole. Highly emotionally charged fantasy worlds that require continued escalation of toxicity to the individual's socialization skills and relationships with individuals, deemed by the faux news consumer as "weak" or the "other", is what has been happening on that channel for over a decade.
Once again- thanks to the OP and to you for this scholarly article.
Glarb! I love DU.