Relationships Between Technology and Sexuality

In Ten Seconds to Love, the author talks about Pamela Anderson's sex tape, which is one of the things that she is most famous for. So here he talks about how since she has a sex tape society automatically labels her as a whore; whereas Marilyn Monroe, may not have had a sex tape but she still got around, is viewed as classy. They were both married several times but in Monroe's time sex wasn't public but rather hidden unlike in Anderson's time where sex has become more public and that celebrity seems to gain more publicity from it; which is what they want to begin with so there's no "accidentally getting out" about it. So the technology in this reading shows how movies in Monroe's time made her more famous, secretive, and pure; and how sex tapes in Anderson's time made her more public and a "whore."

In Porn, the author talks about how the porn industry helped develop the Internet because it was an incentive for people who bought the over sized and expensive equipment. It also talks about how in turn the Internet helped the pron industry by making it available to everyone in their homes. But in the past couple of years the porn industry has suffered because of technology getting better because now they face the problem of piracy and "tube sites." In the video we watched, it said that the companies have to go through every website to see if their content is on there without permission, if they find it they send them a message asking them to take it off and they do but it's back up within days; so it's a constant scan of websites daily. The industry is also suffering because on the video a guy said that people aren't in to watching porn for the quality anymore, they just want a quick video. This costs the companies making quality videos a lot of money because it takes a lot to make these quality videos and then if no one is going to watch them they're losing a lot of money. But with new technology the porn industry is finding ways to adapt by doing things that can't be pirated, i.e. live, etc.

So technology in a way is hurting celebrities with labels and the porn industry with piracy but it is also helping them at times too.