Internet being a recent technology discovery has transformed they way we conduct our things. It is a one stop shopping where one can get almost everything at a click of a button. From shopping, research to all kind of information internet can be of great help. Internet has no limitation; almost everybody can have access as long as there is connection.

Internet as a tool can be used to make and at the same time destroy an individual. This depends on what a person access in the World Wide Web. Due to minimal limitations and privacy which comes with the internet it is possible for people to engage in acts which can be considered as unnatural. In actual sense internet is a cesspool of pornography and other types of dirty contents that has caused great harm to many people. Internet is a host of millions of pornographic materials which display materials which are pure filthy and violent not to mention obscene. (Griffith 2001)

Researchers have described internet as a “triple A vehicle” where accessibility, affordability and anonymity drive this dirty industry. Internet allows people to access and send instant and anonymous information which in most cases is not censored. This means that anyone around the world can post any information online and at the same time anyone in the proximity of the World Wide Web can easily have access to any filth that is put here. It is a known fact that pornography is not new, it has been there for many years but in the recent past it has been accessed by many people due to the advancement of the technology and in this case, discovery of the internet. This discovery is having both positive and negative impacts in our society. It has created a new industry which has become so popular with the masses. Internet pornography has become a popular avenue because it offers complete anonymity when compared to the forms of pornography.

Research has shown that exposure to the internet pornography is corrupting the youth across the globe where they are losing virginity at a very young age. At the same time the teenagers are indulging into unnatural acts due to the contents they access from the internet. It is natural that when the young people are exposed to these dirty materials from the internet, there is a great likelihood that they will involve themselves in funny behavior trying to imitate what they see on these sites. This is a great danger to our society because we can not completely control what is posted in the web. This partly explains the moral decay in our society where all forms of evil are being witnessed in different corners of the world. (Thornburgh and Lin Herbert 2002)

A peer reviewed study revealed that twenty five percent of the males between the ages of twelve and seventeen who have regular access to the internet usually visited pornographic sites. These pornographic sites offer all types of material which were previously hard to get.

We it not for the internet, it would be possible to control what people read, more so the young one who unknowingly  and innocently indulge into internet pornography due to relaxed rules concerning the accessibility of material in the internet.

There is need to control what is posted in the internet, this should be done urgently so that we can save many people who would otherwise had not be exposed to these dirty contents if there was a thorough check and control of what goes into the web. There have been several confessions, majority from very respectable members of the society that they have become addicts of internet pornography. These people need to be saved from themselves and the only way to do this is through educating and sensitizing the society on the danger of the internet. Alternatively the authorities need to put some very stringent measures of censoring the contents put in the internet.

Reference

Griffith (2001), Sex on the Internet: Observations and Implications for Internet Sex Addiction, The Journal of Sex Research, vol 38.

Thornburgh and Lin Herbert (2002) Youth Pornography and the internet