Have you even wandered into one of these relatively recent type of sites? If you did, you know for sure what I am talking about.
The concept is simple. You go to the site, the system randomly finds you someone from somewhere over the world searching at the same time as you, and you two chat. About wathever you want, during how long you feel like it, until one of the two presses the “Next” button.
The things is, the moment you press that button, chances are the next person you’re going to find is a guy. Naked. Doing things. Or if you’re not using video, you’ll probably get an instant “ASL”.
Well, as you can imagine, there is no better reaction for this than to press Next. But the moment you press it, you realise something… the next one is acting exactly the same way! And you are probably going to get the same behavior for a long time, until you eventually find someone who ACTUALLY wants to talk.
And that’s the core of the problem. This site, used for chatting and meeting people from all over the world, is essentially being used as a dating site/porn hub! A well intentioned person can’t realistically go in there willing to find an interesting conversation, or if it does, there’s probably a long period of searching antecipating it.
So far, from my analysis, this creates two problems, one mild and one serious. Mild one is well intentioned people tend to avoid this site, due to the high ammount of shady content. The severe problem is, even though these sites have a warning that you should be over-age and that the contents are not their responsability, there are some children who somehow end up there.
From my personal experience, I’ve met a few children in there, going as low as about 3-4 years old. Now, the immediate thought comes to my mind. What are these children subject to! You never know the next pervert who is going to come across these children, and what they are subject to. Granted, nowadays children are easily exposed to pornography, too easily. But pornography is a passive means, it doesn’t interact back at the children. People, they’re unpredictable. There’s no telling how a middle aged disgusting man, sitting naked in front of the computer is going to react to little children.
Now, I prefer not to dwell further into that topic. It’s a valid point I raise, but for your consideration. What I now want to ask myself and to you is: What drives them to act this way?
Lets think about it. These guys are masturbating either for: another guy doing the same; people who don’t want to see them in their private life; innocent children. Also granted that sometimes girls may turn up, receptive to this type of attitude. But in general, it’s a long shot. Then why? Why do such things?
Well, I will have to say it’s the lack of control over this type of media. These are the XXI century’s show offs. That guy who is in the park, wearing only a long coat, showing their privates to random people. It is a psychological condition that deserves further study. What, in a human, mainly male, mind, drives to this kind of behavior. The need to feel exposed? The thrill of knowing you’re doing wrong? The safety felt by anonimity?
Think and discuss. I hope I gave you something to think about.
And if you are one of them…
Shame on you!