New technologies and high speed transmission on the Internet enables live sex video chat, which is used to transmit strip shows, live sex shows, and live Web cams (continuous transmission of live images). These new technologies enhance the capacity of pimps and buyers to sexually exploit women in several ways. The ability of men to buy private interactive sex shows so that they can masturbate in the privacy of their homes or offices, creates a form of online prostitution. Fast transnational transmission of live shows enables traffickers and pimps to exploit women and girls in their home countries where law and/or law enforcement is weak. Women and girls do not have to be trafficked across national borders to provide sexual gratification to buyers and money for pimps. In 1999, an American man living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia set up a pay-per-view Web site. The content was to be the rape and torture of Asian women for the sexual pleasure of Western men (Hughes 2000b). New Live Sex technologies and high speed transmission on the Internet enables live video chat. The women sign contracts in which they are required to work 10 hours per day, six days a week. The women are required to live sex in a house with three to five live sex broadcasting cameras in each room, including bathroom, and doing approximately 5 hours per day of “private shows” for online viewers. The women may not terminate their contracts before the end date, although the “producer” can terminate it at any time. If the women do not perform to the satisfaction of the “producer” they have to pay him damages. They must follow all posted rules or be fined. The “producer” has full rights to all images or videos that are made of them women to use them in the future in any way he chooses (Hughes 2001). Although a contract gives the appearance of legality, this is a highly exploitative situation in which the “producer” has power and control over the women. It is a typical pimp or brothel set up in which women have little control and are likely to face many “fines” which result in less money.
There’s a whole new dimension in eroticism that significantly gains popularity nowadays, both in the real and virtual markets. From what used to be dominated by pornographic movies and magazines depicting photos of men and women in various forms of sexual poses, eroticism is starting to take an alternative course, which experts scientifically refer to as mature erotica.
This aspect explores different forms of foreplay other than through physical contact or plain visualization of sexual images. Mature erotica comes in the form of erotic novels, erotic stage plays, short stories, poems, audio erotica, and many other forms of literary publications.
Mature erotica presents the sexual act in a perspective that focuses more on passion, sensation, emotions and psychological reaction, instead of the actions and physical sensations involved in the sexual act per se. In a way, mature erotica connects with its audience at a more intimate and personal level.
As people grow older, the perception towards sex also changes. An individual who gains more experience in the field sees it differently from someone who is still an amateur in the area. Mature erotica describes the sexual act in a more complex context that involves feelings and personal connection; that sex is not simply sex. It is an act comprised of dynamic, physical action to satisfy ones urges. Mature erotica showcases sex as an activity that requires imagination, fantasy, openness, feelings and creativity. Such the factors fuel the contents of the literary pieces tagged under the category.