Internet Content and Sexually Driven People

The chapter, ” Internet Pornography : A Social Psychological Perspective on Internet Sexuality”, discusses a very interesting and highly popular topic. The main purpose of this chapter was to link the causes of human sex drives to the constant stimuli that people can experience when they log onto the internet. According to Fisher & Barak, there is a Sexual Behavior Sequence that any individual will have developed throughout their lifetime that, when applied to an artificial stimulus, will react the same as when the person is aroused naturally.
The point that this chapter makes is intriguing in the sense that it finally provides us with a bases and reasoning as to how and why people are directly affected to the pornography that they view on their computers. It makes sense that people’s “internal affective and cognitive responses” to internet material will determine what the future of their sex lives will be like and whether or not they will continue to use the internet for “help”. In other words, if the pornography that someone views on the internet is highly effective, then they will be more inclined to use this type of inducing force in the future. This is why the pornography industry is constantly growing on the internet and why people are now turning to this type of stimulant rather than using magazines like in the past.
Another statistic in the chapter that I thought was interesting was the increasing amount of violence and more provocative poses that now appear in both magazines and on the internet. This figure, about a jump from 1%-5% in the 1970′s alone, has shown how people have become more comfortable with their sexuality and how people’s yearning for more explicit content has also been directly affected by this. Personally, I feel that this increase in explicit content has had an irreversible negative affect on women and the expectations that people have for one another.

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