Pornography and the Internet
The modern day internet can be said to have shaped the
prevalence of pornography like no other medium before it. Indeed
such is the ready access to a huge range of pornographic images
one has to seriously question why the subject matter continues
to be such a taboo subject in the Western world.
Pornography was first labelled as such by the French in the
beginnings of the 18th century. It was widely used at that time
in politically inspired cartoons designed to drum up resistance
to the French aristocracy. It was and is referred to by
historians as