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Pornography is becoming more prevalent and normalized in the twenty-first century. However, the issue of child pornography or teen pornography is quite taboo. It is very hard to find any information on what the main idea behind teen porn is. No matter how one can type the subject into a search engine, as soon as the words teen and pornography are in the search engine the computer screen becomes filled with hundreds of different types of young teen pornography sites. Teen or child pornography is pornographic material featuring under-age participants. According to Wikipedia, child pornography is one of the fastest growing criminal activities on the Internet. Although child pornography is illegal, it is one of the most viewed genres of pornography. To get around the legal issues of this highly in demand genre of pornography, producers will do two things to avoid prosecution for making these videos. Producers make their videos across national borders, and, also, find actors that look very young and dress them in clothes that younger people wear. They do this because they really want to give off the idea that the actor is underage. By doing this, producers are not breaking any laws and are still getting the footage they need to make a video or photographs. 
Women in the porn industries are actively playing the role of a young person in order to arouse their audience. I can not come to terms that these women are portraying a teen or child as a sexual object and understand the underline of it. I think teen and child pornography should be off limits and is disgusting. Not once have I ever wanted to be the “naughty school girl” for Halloween like most girls. Everyone is growing up with the notion of being the “naughty school girl” is hot, which is why it can be acceptable but, yet, these girls and women are not looking at the bigger picture of what they are doing and portraying. These women and girls just want to seem hot, arouse their audience, and, hopefully, make some money (in certain cases), so doing whatever it takes to be accepted by the male audience will be done. However, it would be nice to see the child and teen porn disappear for ethical reasoning.
Pornography is becoming more prevalent and normalized in the twenty-first century. However, the issue of child pornography or teen pornography is quite taboo. It is very hard to find any information on what the main idea behind teen porn is. No matter how one can type the subject into a search engine, as soon as the words teen and pornography are in the search engine the computer screen becomes filled with hundreds of different types of young teen pornography sites. Teen or child pornography is pornographic material featuring under-age participants. According to Wikipedia, child pornography is one of the fastest growing criminal activities on the Internet. Although child pornography is illegal, it is one of the most viewed genres of pornography. To get around the legal issues of this highly in demand genre of pornography, producers will do two things to avoid prosecution for making these videos. Producers make their videos across national borders, and, also, find actors that look very young and dress them in clothes that younger people wear. They do this because they really want to give off the idea that the actor is underage. By doing this, producers are not breaking any laws and are still getting the footage they need to make a video or photographs. The question is why is teen pornography in such high demand? According to some research, the majority of teen pornography viewers are older individuals. Some individuals were asked why they liked to watch this type of genre in pornography, and they said “that being older than the actor portrayed as the teen in the video, it makes me feel empowered because I am older” (Interviewee, 2011). In an article, Sexy Thrills: Understanding the Erotic Thriller by Martin, K., someone said that watching teen pornography is like living a fantasy that they have, because being older they are no longer able to get someone interested in them that is good looking and younger. According to Jane Caputi:
When women demand and express their intellectual, sexual, and emotional freedom, society responds with both overtly woman-hating representations as well as the increased sexualization of children. In pornography, women are marked with clothing and hairstyles to suggest that they are children or teenagers. Everyday porn also shows women in poses and clothing that suggest they are little girls (2011, p. 314).
Women in the porn industries are actively playing the role of a young person in order to arouse their audience. I can not come to terms that these women are portraying a teen or child as a sexual object and understand the underline of it. I think teen and child pornography should be off limits and is disgusting. Not once have I ever wanted to be the “naughty school girl” for Halloween like most girls. Everyone is growing up with the notion of being the “naughty school girl” is hot, which is why it can be acceptable but, yet, these girls and women are not looking at the bigger picture of what they are doing and portraying. These women and girls just want to seem hot, arouse their audience, and, hopefully, make some money (in certain cases), so doing whatever it takes to be accepted by the male audience will be done. However, it would be nice to see the child and teen porn disappear for ethical reasoning.
References
Caputi, J. (2011). The pornography of everyday life. In G. Dines & J. Humez (Ed.). Gender, race, and
class in media (pp. 311-320). Thousand Oaks, C.A.: Sage.
Love’s Baby Soft Photo Retrieved from
Martin, N. K. (2007). Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
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School Girl Photo Retrieved from http://aewl.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/school-girl.jpg
Wikipedia.com (20110. Child pornography. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Child_pornography
/wiki/Child_pornography
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