The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis by Knafo Danielle; Bosco Rocco;

Author:Knafo, Danielle; Bosco, Rocco;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Confer Ltd
Published: 2020-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE PROBLEM(S) WITH PORN

Despite pornography’s tendency to degrade and efface subjectivity, we do not advocate an all-out opposition to pornography usage. As mentioned, there are positive and negative reasons for and consequences of porn usage. We would, however, like to point to two problematic effects of porn consumption that are increasingly encountered in the clinic: the negative effects of internet porn viewing on young people and internet porn addiction. Before we address these two problems, let’s take a look at some statistics. Pornhub, the largest porn site on the internet and fortieth most trafficked website in the world, served 92 million people per day in 2018 – 27% of them women – and had 4,791,799 pornographic videos uploaded in that year alone – most of these consumed by people in the United States (Rense, 2018). The number of visits to pornography sites is greater than those to Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined (Kleinman, 2017). Anything imaginable is available with a mouse click. Maureen O’Connor (2017) calls internet pornography society’s collective id. Not surprisingly, porn violates political, social, moral, religious, and/or psychological taboos.

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (2011), researchers of sexual desire, followed and analysed a billion internet searches and 40,000 of the most trafficked adult websites, concluding that “the sexual brain is guaranteed to upset the politically correct, the socially conservative, and just about everyone in between” (p. xv). Thus, sexist, racist, sadistic, incestuous, and paedophile pornography are quite prevalent on the internet (Dines, 2010; O’Connor, 2017). Saketopoulou (2020) explains: “Erotic desire visits us against our consent, indifferent to our politics, unconcerned with what is just or right. In the domain of the sexual, there is often a gap between what is fair libidinal game and what actually turns us on.”

One of the most popular types of pornography is hentai animation. Hentai is Japanese for “changed or strange figure”, denoting a metamorphosis, abnormality, or sexual perversion (Ortega-Brena, 2009). Graphically sexual, phantasmagorical, often violent, and sometimes grotesque, hentai portrays huge genitalia, physical anomalies, tentacle sex, graphic hermaphroditism, transhuman creatures, sadomasochism, and coupling of all kinds. Hentai is fantasy freed from the laws of physics: any combination of human or animal, monster or machine can be used in its depictions (Ortega-Brena, 2009). Shame normally associated with porn usage may be mitigated for users since the animated figures are not real. Furthermore, because it is animated, the only limits to hentai illustrations are the limits of imagination.

A sidelight to internet pornography is the increased number of self-identified digisexuals operating with the help of technology (McArthur & Twist, 2017). The internet’s accessibility, anonymity, and innumerable choices are seen as key benefits by digisexuals. Alessandra Lemma (2017) claims the internet’s appeal is akin to the infantile desire for instant gratification and the resulting sense of omnipotence – what she calls “immediacy without mediation” (p. 47). The temporal space between wanting and working to get – and working to get and getting – is a space of learning, growth, and appreciation. What Lemma makes clear is

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