Ever wonder what it would be like to ask your friends or family a question and not be able to Google the answer right away? Sounds like the beginning of a very scary story. Most of us grew up with the Internet as a part of our lives; it’s hard to imagine even functioningwithout it. It is easily one of the greatest inventions of all time. It makes life easier and it makes communication instantaneous. Unfortunately, it also makes pornography affordable, accessible and anonymous. Pornographers know this and they have some sly tricks up their sleeves, because more traffic—adults or children—means more money.
It’s important to remember, you are smarter than any marketing attempt thrown at you by porn companies. Knowing the tricks they use, gives you power in your FIGHT against them.
It’s difficult to pinpoint all the techniques used by the pornography industry, but here are some of the sneaky ways pornography targets you:
1. MISSPELLED WORDS
We all have moments when our thumbs get a little clumsy or our phone key pads grow smaller by the minute and as we search the Internet, we enter in a word that is spelled incorrectly. Porn industry techies use these human errors to their advantage. They have statistics on the most commonly misspelled words and/or faulty keystrokes and they pounce. We hit enter on a search where we have made a spelling error and BLAM-O, we are bombarded with porn. Why would they do that? If the industry is all about keeping the laws and protecting people from unwanted solicitation of porn, why would they target misspelled words? The answer seems almost like a no brainer; their goal is to inject porn into the lives of anyone, anywhere, and at any time. Make no mistake about it, though, you still have a choice in the matter. You can exit, delete, power down, sprint in the opposite direction, close your laptop, lock your phone screen, yell for help—whatever is right for you to get out of that situation, do it.
2. STEALTH WEBSITES
What do we mean by stealth sites? We mean porn companies buy URLs or website address that closely resemble or are identical to websites for really popular companies. So that if by chance you think it’s a .org instead of a .com or you think it is spelled a different way, regardless of your age, you are taken to a site with sexually explicit content.
3. TEASER IMAGES
All pornography has is illusion. It is a manipulated, calculated, and designed product. And why are products made? To be sold. They need customers so they use teaser images to sell their product. They use teasers to draw people to their sites. Most teasers contain sexually explicit material. The problem is Internet users aren’t always on porn sites or looking for porn when they see these teasers.
4. INNOCENT WORD SEARCHES
This is where you are going to want to turn on your safe search. As we Google through life we gain knowledge—some trivial, some essential. We look up words we’ve never heard before, search for movie titles that we can’t think of, do research for that paper that is due tomorrow, all of it. Now that I’m thinking about it, it’s hard to imagine not using the internet or not having the answers to all of my questions at the click of a button. Here is where we find the porn industry lurking yet, again. They take innocent words commonly searched for by people who aren’t necessarily looking for porn and buy advertising space and web pages to draw people to their sites. In these cases, younger people are likely targets because they might not be aware of what they are clicking on.
5. MOUSE TRAPPING
In this case odds are you were looking for something else entirely, so you are shocked when you realize you have landed on a porn site. Often under these circumstances you aren’t searching for porn so you want to get away from it as soon as possible. Each time you click on the exit button a new page and picture reloads, over and over again. Your mouse has literally been hijacked. More than likely in these cases, you have to shut your computer down completely to get out of the vicious trap.
6. USE OF CARTOON CHARACTERS
This one is pretty clear cut; the porn industry uses cartoons engaged in explicit sex acts. What major group of people watches cartoons, again? Oh right, kids.
The worst part about all of these practices isn’t the violating nature of their attempts for customers. No, it’s the blatant attempt for underage and innocent customers. It’s the targeting of people who aren’tLOOKING for porn. Ask yourself, why would the porn industry target young people? What do they have to gain?
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