Surfers
of porn sites repeatedly surf for more leading to
addiction
While
offensive and distasteful to many users, most Internet
pornography is not illegal. Countries have different
cultural standards and legislation regarding sexual
material. Thus, content that is banned in one jurisdiction
may be easily accessible on servers in another.
Cybersex is very addictive especially for teens, particularly
male adolescents, who have always been driven by natural
curiosity to seek out pornography. Hard-core sexual
images, which were once very difficult to acquire, are
now just a mouse click away.
The online pornography industry uses many strategies
to promote use of their sites, including:
• Pop-up windows: trap users in an endless loop
of porn.
• Home page hijacking: (planting a Java script
command on
computers to change the user's default
home page to a porn site). Changing the home page back
to its original setting appears to solve the problem.
However, when the computer is rebooted, the offensive
site re-appears as the home page.
• Stealth sites: a variety of techniques, including
buying up expired domain names, exploiting common misspellings,
or using well-known names of companies or artists.
• Hidden key words that are picked up by search
engines: Porn operators bury key words, including brand
names of popular toys or names of pop artists, in the
code of their Web sites to lead children and teens to
their sites.
Once Internet
users get a glimpse of the pornographic websites, some
may turn away in disgust but most of them might get
sexually aroused and voluntarily enter these sites.
They would indulge in the activity and subconsciously
get addicted to cyber-porn and thus, contracting Internet
Addiction Disorder.
