January 15, 2008
With one click of her mouse, my 14-year-old cousin was taken to myspice.com rather than myspace.com where she wanted to be. A site that can link you to others like Xxx-Sex-Tonight.com, or FreeHorny-Xxx.com; sites that obviously speak for themselves. For a lot of people, mistyping can be normal, but the place that could take you, could be inappropriate for the viewer.
Pornography is everywhere these days and it seems like society is becoming more immune to it. Pornography is any material depicting or describing the human body or sexual conduct in a way that arouses sexual feelings. It is distributed through many media, including magazines, books, television, movies, music, and the Internet. It is as harmful to the spirit as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs are to the body.
With the growth in internet site, there are an estimated 420 million adult web pages online. "For the person who has difficulty stopping, more is only one click away," says sex therapist Louanne Cole Weston, PhD.
However, the addicts are not the only ones who have access to these sites. Children end up finding them when they are not even being sought. A misspelled word could direct you to an eye full of porn rather than the local church website.
Yet, the internet is not all to blame. Some people have no problem leaving evidence of their viewing pleasures around for all to see. While I was putting down my daughter and my best friend’s daughter for a midday nap, I knocked something off the nightstand. When her daughter jumped off the bed to recover the fallen item, it was to my surprise it was a porn DVD. And that was not the only DVD lying around. I accumulated two more that weren’t in their rightfully owned spot, the second drawer of the nightstand.
There is no saying how much more open people can get about their viewing pleasures, and how much more society can take. The E! Channel on TV has done stories on Jenna Jameson and Howard Stern, leaving me to wonder how far porn will make it onto TV where it is all just out in the open.
©COPYRIGHT 2008 ASHLEY B. VINCENT
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