Book Reviewed: How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole

Virtual porn In a virtual world, experiencing love, heartbreak, and healing are real. It creates a fantasy world where your thirst for online sex becomes unquenched, and drives you to desire for more. The technology has worked well for both the sides of the economy, the supply and demand chains controlled by the government legislation and the activists who fight for individual rights. Porn industry generates billions of dollars and offer employment for online sex workers and the investors of the platforms. Sex industry has strongly influenced the way the world wide web operates, and it has provided a relatively safe place to explore sexual fantasies from porn pictures to porn videos for all kinds of interests. The author provides an historical look at the public and private shows between cam models and their customers, from exotic dancing and pornographic videos to masturbation shows and erotic chatrooms. There are many virtual brothels and strip clubs with limitless potential for many avatars and make the Old-Time bedroom sex obsolete and unnecessary. In video games, "emergent" content occurs when two or more things collide in a game to produce something that was not programmed or scripted. The online porn is not free from racism or age discrimination or the physical attributes. In 2014, Chase Bank shut down the accounts of hundreds of porn performers. The adult industry suspected this was due to the Department of Justice's "Operation Choke Point," a 2013 initiative that demanded that "bankers behave like policemen and judges. Customers' access to financial services provided by PayPal, Venmo, and Google Pay were shut down, Denying payment services to service providers was a big blow. But the online creators produced creative ways like pre-paid tokens to access porn sites and their services. In one of the chapters, on deepfakes that allows making celebrity face-swapped videos as if the videos are real. The author discusses actual cases and some of these are either exaggerated or simply untrue.