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