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Porn driving Technology. Chris Keezer. Who Am I? . Biased Married with kids Been involved with teaching sessions about good sexual and personal relationships. Why Am I Here?. To tell you about what is shaping the technology around us Harmless Fun.
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Porn driving Technology Chris Keezer
Who Am I? • Biased • Married with kids • Been involved with teaching sessions about good sexual and personal relationships
Why Am I Here? • To tell you about what is shaping the technology around us • Harmless Fun
PornindustryfindsbackdoortoiPhone 4 • Joel Schectman July 29 2010 • Iphone 4 announced June 7, 2010 • Pornindustry are earlyadopters and shapers of technology • Craigslistwas marketing for models
What Now? • August 13th 2010 Marked the first iphone 4 sex chat service • 2001Forbes Magazine • Adult Check, CyberAge, CCBill, and Internet Billing Co. • J. Christopher Mallick • Amex
What's porn done for us? • Camcorder • VHS, DVD, now Blu Ray • Streaming Video • Payper view cable and Satellite tv • Are the gains worth the losses?
Ethical implications • 30% of college age males • CARNES research average age at which children see porn 11 • The occurrence of these sexual abnormalities has increased with the accessibility of pornographic material • porn expanding rapidly • Pornified Pamela Paul • Jean BethkeElshtain
Closing Remarks • Iphone 4 and facetime porn • All that is happening in the world of porn now • What is it doing for us? • How to we ethically respond?
Sources • Aldridge, John, “The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn”, The Observer Sunday 3 March 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/03/internetnews.observerfocus • Carnes, Patrick,Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction • Layden, Mary Anne, director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania • Lubove, Seth, “See No Evil”, Forbes Magazine, September 17, 2001http://web.archive.org/web/20020306212610/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0917/068_print.html • Patton, Eric, Internationally certified addictions specialist, specializing in sexual addictions Certified by The American academy of healthcare providers in the addictive disorders • Schectman, Joel, “PornindustryfindsbackdoortoiPhone4” The Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jul. 29, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/porn-industry-finds-backdoor-to-iphone-4/article1655561/print/ • The Witherspoon Institute “The Social Costs of Pornography” • Dines,Gail, "Pornland How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality":