According to Cosmopolitan magazine 15% of women have knowingly made sex videos. What they may not know is that a growing number of those sex videos are turning up online on websites like YouPorn and PornoTube. The Tyee a newspaper in British Columbia, reports that there are over 250 "ex-girlfriend" videos posted on YouPorn - postings that are often made by ex-boyfriends to embarrass their former partners.
Porn 2.0 sites allow users to create their own pornography and post it online where it is available, free of charge, to anyone and everyone on the Internet. "It's like an electronic peeping Tom" said author Fredrick Lane. These websites create a number of concerns - including the creation of child pornography by children.
Girls as young as 11 post sexual photographs of themselves; teens use their cell phones and web cameras to make a video strip tease. Children often want to mimic what they see online - and now these websites give them a forum to post and share their material with not only their friends, but millions of people, including sexual predators, around the globe.
Porn 2.0, like most pornography on the Internet, fails to consider real world problems and laws. Posting sexually-explicit video of someone without their consent is a major violation of privacy. Although YouPorn and PornoTube require posters to have the consent of all individuals involved, there is no enforcement. Pornographers, amateur or professional, continue to flaunt any responsibility for the harm and damage their product might have.
Critics often point out that the global nature of the Internet makes it difficult to prosecute violators. Janine Benedet, a professor at the University of British Columbia disagrees: "The idea that the Internet is a borderless lawless universe is quite false."
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