Vanilla Romantic Movie Vs Porno: Fifty Shades of Grey

Media is a medium that we use to communicate or spread information to one another. We also use media to receive information to cater to our needs. According to David Buckingham, media consists form of a wide whole range of both conventional and modern communications devices such as television, photography, movies, videos, advertising, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and music.

The term of mass media means a variety of communication devices. In today’s modernization, there are massive and diverse of ways to communicate through media devices which are also outsized by users worldwide in numerous types of languages. There is only one thing that anybody would agree with due to the perspectives of the world today, media is indivisible as a part in our lives. The media range is accessible at anywhere and anytime a person would need it. Our lives need the joys of the environment so it was how the entertainment and media just continuously go hand in hand. The use of mass media in daily life now is more crucial than ever. The technology of communication, advertising, marketing, and also how social media are placed as platforms as ways to express and share views, opinions, and ideas of someone are just how the mass media grew to be the most efficient way to communicate with one and another.

Basically, pornography is an actual depiction of sexual behavior which can be found in books, magazines, movies, the Internet, and in other media with the aim to spark arousal and sexual excitement. The distinction between pornography and erotic literature or art is subjectively massive that can change the community standards.

The meaning of pornography is pretty much personal to some extent. The history of pornography cannot be received in a way. The representational process that might be contemplated as sexually desired in one society may be criticized as pornography. A lot of modern Muslim societies also appeal to the ‘pornography' designation to most motion media and TV programs that in Western societies are unarguable. Pornography is very much to the viewers or audience which is extremely abundant within the eye of the observer to adapt a cliché.

The creation of pornographic works had been promoted since the era of printing presses back in a few decades ago in Europe. Most of it contained elements of humor and romance which is aimed to entertain people and as well as bring up the desire to arouse. The treatment of the joys and despairs of marital deceit and the act of being unfaithful to spouses in classical writings were how these works harked back.

Other than the major sexual element of pornography, it also became the most important vehicle in social and political protest. Pornography supplied transportation for exploring the daring concepts of the world which includes sexual freedom for both men and women. These matters were censured by the church and state. Abundant sexual content additionally centered on the illegal acts of the royals and aristocrats, thereby contributing to the harm of the good reputation of Europe’s elites.

Pornographic media has been condemned since ever and had been authorized to be legally forbidden. This is because pornography is believed to have corrupted minors and adults which can lead to the involvement of sex crimes. Sometimes, significant artistic or non-secular works are also prohibited because they were might be assumed to be pornographic too. Those assumptions are challenged on legal and scientific grounds. Many countries conduct legal proceedings against the production, distribution or even possession of pornographic materials which deal with obscenity. Even though there were various legal standards in worldwide, most countries in Europe and North America still hold the representations and depictions of pornography deemed a great standard since a few decades ago.

The Impact of Media Pornography on Society

The production of pornography started to become widely popular in the 19th century. Although pornography had been first taking place in the early 1920s, later in the 1960s, the content of pornography was gotten highly grossed in the media world at the era. Then, the rising development of videocassettes which started in the 1980s, and also digital video discs (DVDs) in the 1990s made the production of pornographic media were distributed more widely and even made the use of pornography to be personally used by people. Moreover, the emergence of the Internet in the 1990s is also one of the reasons why pornographic media is spread out even more. It became the easiest platform to satisfy sexual desires and can be accessed anywhere. The most profitable industry in the media world during that era is the industry of pornography. The emergence of new technology of the Internet had inspired people to start posting their own pictures through the rising of media social which are often challenged the concepts or standards of beauty the eyes of the world should have been. This matter had always been an issue as people keep trying to reach the standard of beauty they see every day on the media and even dared to do harmful acts just to fit in. Other than taking a big spot in the marketplace for commercial, pornography also dealt with the matter of standards that makes everyone try to become or do one.

Pornography is can be said to be easily present and to be used among adults and adolescents. As we all know the consumption of pornography may satisfy inner sexual desires but it results with a lot of negative effects such as how it affects people emotionally, psychologically, and even physical health. These bad effects may increase the rates of depression, anxiety, the act of violent behavior, exposure to sexual arousal an early age, increasing the maternity issues among teenagers, and also unhealthy relationships between men and women.

In the Journal of Adolescent Research, it was recorded that 67% of young males and 49% of young females accepted the existence of pornographic media in 2008. The exposure of these sexual contents are likely to be present almost in everywhere we are. Furthermore, based on a 2010 survey of English students, there were about one-third of youngsters aged between14 to 16 were exposed to sexual content at the early age of 10 or maybe even younger. Meanwhile, in another survey recorded in 2011, there were 31% of adolescent boys had admitted to surfing adults' websites on the Internet. Another survey reported that the adult males with 51% and adult females with 32% also claimed that they had been watching or grew up with the exposure of pornography before they were 13 years old. It had clearly show pornography has clearly become widespread throughout modern American society in an outsize range of ages and not only adults. Moreover, it cannot be denied if the exposure of pornographic media just continues grossly evolving in every part of this world.

Various studies had implemented that the impact of sexually explicit media on adults are resulting to social development, attachment, and interpersonal relationships. As an example, to stand an effort, to describe the social characteristics of sexual content consumers Mesch used a 2004 sample of Israelis who aged 13 to 8. Based on the study, using the quantitative methodology, it was found that most adolescents with a higher preference on socially interacting and bonding with others were not likely to use sexually explicit material because they had less interactive peers Additionally, Mesch found that more quantities of pornography consumption were significantly correlated with lower degrees of social integration, specifically related to religion, school, society, and family. Higher degrees of consumption of pornography is related to higher levels of aggressiveness. This resulted in a statistically significant relationship between pornographic material consumption and aggressiveness that happened in schools.

Children these days are exposed to pornography early age when they accidentally view the material on the internet. Somehow the parent’s or close adult’s material could come in contact. Children may have reported their feelings of shock, disgust, embarrassment, anger, fear, and sadness after coming in contact with pornography material. This exposure mostly resulted in anxiety for the child. The children may suffer from all the symptoms of depression and obsession with the sexual content they engage in. Furthermore, this can be very disturbing to the child’s environment and even peers who might witness or are victimized by this behavior of adults acting out sexual acts. Sexual exploitation with the aim of grooming the children by the sexual predators have purposefully exposed to young children. Children may have a higher risk in having or showing faulty adaptation behaviors to a certain situation or environment and even psychologically if they are exposed to pornographic media.

The use of pornography results in the violent and sexually aggressive toward women. This brings out a rape myth ideology for men who consume frequent pornography which is that women's appearance can cause rape or actually enjoy being sexually assaulted. Most pornographic movies and films usually portray the comparison of male and female aggression through verbal or physical including the sexually portrayed actions that show how women are degraded. This show that it held violent pornography as a strong proof that it exposure is related with extreme behaviors in male. The breaking through of the famous erotic, romantic, and drama movie called Fifty Shades of Grey which depicts the sexual acts of a modern-day couple instead of portraying a normal couple. The characterization and the storyline of the movie have adopted to the idea of women would actually enjoy being sexually assaulted. But this movie seems to be reviewed as a vanilla romantic movie with a few mildly transgressive scenes.

The recent phenomenon of nowadays dating concept among society especially young adults and adults which is sexting that is meant by sending out nudes or explicit pictures, videos, and having sexual conversations through dating applications. This is one of the mediums which conveys to the breaking through of media pornographic that can happen in daily life or even something to be a trend of.

Society itself is the major contributing factor in why and how these sexual contents, media, and lifestyles had been affecting in a child’s or an adolescent’s life. According to L. Callahan-Rodriguez, society includes many important factors throughout the development of life in children and adolescents which also include the values of life, the norms, the role of parents and peers. More or less these youngsters are guided by the how the world and society are represented in their daily life. So, the ways of how society depicts or views sexuality may affect these youngsters' mindsets to respond to certain issues of sexuality. This means that they will be having their own perspectives of view in how they are dealing with pornographic media. For example, if a pornographer is seen to be negative which is represented by society, the youngsters will likely to be more secretive and careful in how they handle issues and behaviors of pornographic.

To be more specific on who is the most important in children’s life is, of course, must be the parents itself. Parents are the adults in children’s life are the persons that their own kids would look up to and rely on. Parents held the most responsibilities in order to mold children’s life and future. How society works need to be guided by the parents in children’s life to make them understand and adapt with what the world is having. Nevertheless, the children’s physical, mental and social also need to be guided to comprehend in how they face the world today. Parents are also usually blamed for not be able to conduct their children from involving the negative behaviors that also could lead to sexuality such as maternity issues and being sexually active at a very young age.

A number of studies show that most adolescents that are likely to exposed to sexual content early would have been influenced by their own peers too other than from the parents or the media they can access at home. Based on Ragsdale et al, It was reported that 74.9% of adolescents are learning about sex. There were 15% of youngsters who learned that ‘sex is casual’ or it means having sex is common to do in the range of age from their own circle of friends rather than from their parents. Adolescents are learning the sexual expectancies from their own environment that they are casual or comfortable in. They had these thoughts that their parents may not want to talk about sex and it felt awkward to do so. They preferred to have knowledge of sexuality from the media they seen on the televisions or the Internet. Moreover, they would receive the knowledge through the impressions and influence from their friends.

The effects of media had been a matter of many psychological and sociological studies which can be conducted through the applied theory that applies the pornographic media. First of all is the Arousal Theory. This theory can be related with people that have their own levels of motivation. According to this theory, founded by psychologist Daniel Berlyne. Based on Hull’s drive reduction theory, Berlyne attempted to explain the relationship between arousal and curiosity in individually. According to Berlyne, the optimum level of arousal at a given time for an individual is exist. The organism will search for stimulation and for example, is the exploratory behavior only if the extent level of arousal reaches below the optimum level. Doubts, perplexities, contradictions, inconsistencies or irrelevances may be in result if the curiosity is the result for conceptual conflict which was argued by Berlyne too. So, for some children and adolescents, it was attainable to be actuated by pornographic material although it was suggestively. For instance, immediate consequences might be faced by these individuals.

The Safety Valve theory by A.O. Hume, suggests that an individual’s needs for sexual desires and behaviors are likely the reason why they are exposed to pornographic media.A normal human being has his or her own needs of sexual desires, so with the availability of media pornography, it can cater to their needs to be satisfied which can also be viewed privately.

Meanwhile, for the Disinhibition Theory, sexuality acts are inhibited by experiences of an individual itself which might exist in children and adolescents that are supposed not be happen an early age. However, because the continuous exposure of sexual content in the media, there are just resulting much more towards sexual behaviors in them. These youngsters might have accepted and adapted this extent of behavior in life which is suggested by L.Berkowitz’s theory. The depictions of media that have sexual or pornography content that keeps on appearing on social media, can make people these days to accept the normalization of pornography in life.

The users of Facebook had been up to 2 billion active users. According to the New York Post, child porn is taking place on Facebook once more. There were 100 of sexualized pictures of youngsters that were about to report by the BBC, and it was found that Facebook eventually only removed just 18 of them using Facebook’s policing tools. The BBC report also stated that Facebook did not take any act when it was reported that five pedophiles convicted had active Facebook accounts violating the company's rules explicitly.

The Guardian has revealed that Facebook has faced a minimum if one recent surge in revenge porn and sexual extortion cases. There were simply about 54,000 potential cases in January of 2017. Over 14,000 accounts involved in these disputes were disabled by the company, 33 of which involved children.

In addition, 2,450 cases of blackmailing of sexual content such as videos and pictures were potentially increasing rapidly through Facebook. In other words, is the upsurge of sextortion. A total of 14,130 accounts were disabled. Sixteen cases have been taken over by Facebook's internal research teams and these are just the highlights of porn problems on the world's largest social site.

According to The Star, from the list of the highest number of internet porn (IP) in South-East Asia, Malaysia recorded the first place which includes uploading and downloading photos and the visualizations of child pornography. It was about 20,000 of internet porn addresses in Malaysia in this regard. The Dutch police that based in Malaysia in 2015 provided data that were about 17,338 IP which involved child pornography revealed by Asst Comm Ong Chin Lan of the Sexual, Women and Child Investigation Division of the Royal Malaysian Police( D11) on Cyber Protection for Children seminar.

According to The Star, there were 51% of 13 to 15 aged children were recorded having relationships and friends with those who committed into the illegal and harmful act through the application of WeChat. Other channels included Facebook, WhatsApp and Beetalk. In the development of Malaysia, the country is still progressing towards advanced development compared to other southeast Asian countries. The result of how Malaysia reached the highest number of Internet Porn (IP), shows that Malaysia still lacks behind for its law enforcement regarding the matter that needs to be monitored for its media content. Moreover, the changing of the new government should be able to have different enforcement to make sure Malaysian citizens are not influenced by the media of pornography that could corrupt the mind and behaviors of society.

Conclusion

Media pornography can be concluded to have a massive impact in society's lives. Modern society’s acceptance and exposure brings out the negative effects, especially towards children and young adolescent. The media of pornography itself shows a bad image or a bad side that can be scope in the media world. But pornography had been one of the vehicles to receive attention or perk up the audience in the industry including entertainment, politics, and even in business. It had been decades the symbol of sex had captured the eye of the beholder in the social world. Nonetheless, it became one of the most important platforms to be publicized or as agenda-setting.

The use of media pornography towards the extent of the modern world needs to be enforced strictly before it worsened as it already is. There are lot of negative effects towards society with this engagement of sexual content in everyday life. Young adolescents and children are the most likely to be easily influenced with these contents.