Tara McGowan's List: Internet Porn

• t is pornographic material that appears to depict children, but doesn’t use real children.
• it can be argued that it promotes child abuse, or does involve a child if a ‘real’ child’s face is used or if one believes that it is that ‘real’ child’s body.
• the Supremes held that these two forms of pornography were protected by the First Amendment.
• I wonder if by giving people the opportunity to experiment with the idea of child porn, are we allowing them an opportunity to increase their craving for the real thing.
• argument that the use of ‘virtual porn’ keeps pedophiles and would-be pedophiles away from children, by giving them an outlet for their “sickness”.

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• philosophical rational-dualism and scientific positivism.
• the alleged war between desire and technology as an abstract polarization and ideological artefact.
• Vivid narratives, generated by existential, phenomenological, and hermeneutic methods, portray those sensual-sexual experiences, depict the dynamic power of cyberspace, and sketch a vignette of bionic embodiment.
• I discuss the power of cyber-transactions based upon a hermeneutic research on flirting on the Internet.
• Within the virtual forum, there are no limits, boundaries, rules, traffic signals, or border-crossings.
• the inherent structure of sensory deprivation maximally fires the imagination.
• Indeed in virtual politics, fantasy is the key strategic tool.
• Sigmund Freud’s “einfall” (free association) method demonstrates that speaking to an unseen other in the absence of threat is freeing.
• Unencumbered conversation and interaction also spawn powerful sexual and psycho-spiritual attachments.
• Only one’s own moral standards and emotional boundaries set limits. You direct the play and juggle concocted personalities. In an eye blink at the flick of a mouse, you can stop the whole show. “Heady” control.
• Simulation reigns in cyberspace. So the initial major tasks of those tackling online dating are to fetter out the frauds and to build trust.
• bersex grants temporary release, tension-reduction, plus the additional pleasure of believing that your correspondent is sharing and co-generating the excitement. Virtual sex fills a lack. What about the quality of the fulfilment? One might easily feel angered and cheated at the possibility that one’s own imagination, not the partner in cyberspace, generates the sexual elan It boils down to the “reality” that one is masturbating self in the presence of an absent other.
• raging war in cyberspace between desire and technology.

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