With significant digital advancements in the last decade, we are forced to wonder whether this is always a good thing. Take pornography, for example. Human sexual desires have always been present, but what could be cited behind the escalated number of sex and porn addicts in recent years?
Increasing potency
While porn was once a hushed topic of conversation, it has now become a widely accepted pastime, ushering a host of problems with it. Accepting and embracing your sexual needs is one thing, but pornography usage can be a double-edged sword. The downsides of porn usage are mainly due to the increased potency and accessibility of pornographic content.
Let’s shed some light on how porn has changed and evolved over time.
1860s to 1970s
The development of photography led to erotic photos, which could also be dubbed as art. The onset of halftone printing led to mass-produced imagery, which naturally created room in the market for pornographic magazines solely targeted towards sexual exploration and desires. The first issue of Playboy launched in December 1953. The acceptance of porn magazines also increased. Woody Allen’s famous movie Bananas shows a hilarious clip of the character purchasing pornographic magazines from a local newsstand.
1970s to Early 2000s
The word started becoming less taboo, and there are frequent references made to porn in America’s all-time hit show, Friends. By this time, pornographic pictures and movies became common and people could even have these movies shipped to their house to view content in the privacy of their homes. With the development of the cable, soft porn started to run late at night on TV, as you may recall from Friend’s humorous episode ‘The One with The Free Porn.’
Early 2000s
The late 1990s and early 2000s welcome the internet, and this meant increased affordability and accessibility to pornographic content. Videos and images that catered to every fetish and sexual desire started to emerge, giving people the chance to view porn that suited them, with the cover of anonymity.
2004 to Now
With increased high-speed internet, access to porn drastically increased. There are around 1.3 million porn sites today. Let that sink in! Porn sites shifted from generating revenue from subscribers to advertisers, which made viewing porn even easier. Within a single second, you could have access to several porn videos, thanks to the shrewd porn website layout. The revenue for the porn industry also drastically increased, and today it stands at an estimated value of $15 billion!
Now with laptops, mobile phones and tablets, porn has become more accessible than ever. You don’t have to switch on the TV when you can just flick your phone out and find thousands of porn videos on the internet right from the comfortable confines of your bed. If it took effort, people might have resorted to other activities to escape from boredom or loneliness. But with the easy access to porn, usage and addiction are rampant.
Overview of Pornographic Content
With increased accessibility to porn, the potency also increased. As men and women became desensitized to soft porn, producers were more than happy to fuel their desires. While aggression in porn may not be that popular, the satisfaction levels are increasing, making people less satisfied by sex and intimacy with partners, leading them to rely on porn to get off.
Future of Porn: Virtual Reality
What does the future of porn look like? Since 2014, when Ela Darling filmed her first VR performance, the idea of virtual reality took off and is now set to be the future of porn. Porn has seen a lot of changes over time, and now we have VR porn.
With VR porn, you get an immersive experience. Instead of just watching pornographic videos on a screen, you can virtually participate in it!
Final Word
While experts say VR porn can provide a more positive experience than viewing porn from a mobile or computer screen, there is the threat of an even decreased reliance on personal relations and intimacy for sexual gratification and satisfaction. While VR porn is all set to become the future, we can’t help but wonder what this will entail for the relationships of this generation?
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