Without porn, information sharing tools would not be as wide-spread as they are today. Porn has had a gaping impact on sharing information globally.
Rantanen suggests that as globalization progresses people will interact less physically and more virtually (Rantanen pg 10, 2005). It is in the nature also of porn that people actually interact more with themselves as they would with other people.
As watching movies became more prevalent in the home with VHS it is safe to say that with the ease of access to information people are spending more time at home watching porn than ever before. The masses of sweaty-palmed males are reaching the same climax individually.
When I asked a 'family member' how informational flows have affected their porn habits he said "it can be accessed from any device and you can find anything you can possibly imagine." Now despite Uncle Jimmy's limited imagination, he does raise some valid points. With the magic of globalisation it is entirely possible that the person sitting across from you on the train is watching the Kraken have his way with Wonder Woman.
Based on the past of pornography and the parallels of globalisation is it possible that by looking at where porn is heading we can also see where we, as a globe, are going?
One of the consequences of globalization thus seems to be a mass-experience monological quasi-interaction - Rantanen 2005Globalization has indeed made people less social in the physical aspect, but at least we still interact online and we still try to fulfill our sex drives with another person. But what will happen when the porn industry doesn't need the Internet? When the benefit of porn is not the benefit of man? When every great mind is wasted with their SexBot? When there is nothing to gain from more interactive porn will mankind's technological progress get stuck in stasis?
Source - Rantanen, T. (2005) The Media and Globalization, Sage, London, pp. 1-18
