When it comes to the Internet today, it is a place that
everybody from around the world can connect and communicate with each other as
long as they have access to Internet. As a result, certain companies like
pornography have taken advantage of this freedom of communication and have
become one of the leading developers of the Internet industry. Actually, when
thinking about it, it is no wonder that porn has been a motivator. With the
porn industry having access to the Internet, they are able to take their
business and spread it further out to people. This industry also gets its
supporters from users, mainly men. Our expectations of the Internet which is supposed
to be free is now responsible for expressing the men’s desires of sex.
When it comes to men’s desires, the Internet has a way of
facilitating a portion of their desires. When I think about men’s desires, what
comes to mind for me is the three things we want most which is sex, money and
power. As a man, I can understand that. However, while men do have desires like
that, I also have a desire to be able to get an amazing job and be able to
support myself and for a possible family. The men who are looking for
prostitution probably are desperate for sex or they have issues with strong
independent women today. While thinking
about it, the Internet is just one of the many ways that pornography has
spread. Before the Internet, pornography was seen in magazines, pictures and
even VHS’s. Men would also go to rental
stores to rent pornography out. All of these types of media including the Internet
have given the image of hyper-sexualized women. As a result, gaining the
supporters from mostly men of different ages from college to businessmen. According
to the Hughes’s article “The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry”
(Cyberfeminism, 1999), the Internet Entertainment Group (IEG) recorded that the
proportion of buyers of women over the Internet are 90% male, 70% living in the
US, and 70% being between the ages of 18 and 40. What this says about men’s
desires and expectations of real women is that they need to be subservient and
compliant to any and all their demands.
The term embodiment refers to someone or something that is a
perfect representation or example of an idea. For this case, there are men out
there who are looking for women that embody the expectations that can satisfy
their desires. With the Internet showing women being hyper-sexualized, it also
shows the men’s desire on how women should act. While most men are only
thinking about these desires, I would like to believe that I am not part of
that norm. Women are not to be considered property to men just to satisfy the
sexual desires. Speaking for my own desires, I hope to find the right women for
me one day and that she will like me as well. Overall, this shows that the
global prostitution industry has more power and leverage than the lawmakers
that try to regulate it.
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