Digital Sexual Identities in the Modern Age
Digital Sexual Identities in the modern age by Karen Colville
I have struggled with making Art for many reasons, it is a part of being an Artist. I have achieved success in a number of capacities when it comes to image making. I have done very little in the realm of digital art.
I had no interest in erotic art. I found the world immoral, corrupted and disgusting enough. There were very few safe havens. Why add to it? Now it is worse, more crime, corruption and digital criminals.
Over the years, I learned to love and accept my body. I learned to live on a budget.
Being an Artist, there are good times and lean times. For many years, I never showed myself in a sexual manner. I dressed modest not sexy. About a decade ago , I worked with a photographer.
He helped me with my art portfolio, photos of my art. Since I had some legitimate experience as a Model, I started doing fully clothed, semi nude work to give him practice in building his portfolio. We agreed not to do a model release together.
Some Photographers, they will give or gift over the images for the Model to own, own the copyrights , some that they are paid upfront. Some simply use the images as portfolio building depending on the style of Photography they are doing until they get paid work. I have worked with a number of Photographers Professional and Amateur.
I struggled even more with modeling, the constant pressure of doing nude images with them, there is sexual harassment within legitimate agencies as much as there were explicit content makers. I had traditional jobs in my past where I was subject to sexual harassment even with being dressed Conservative and not being suggestive in any manner. Today nudity is socially acceptable, while other people go back over a hundred years, because it is not accepted in their culture, women are considered property of a man and traded for favors among the wealthy . Some Women express themselves as freedom from religious oppression and backward standards of oppression. Women have also experienced sexual harassment in religion. People do different actions for different reasons.
Harassment had a long term impact on me as a Woman. One simply because I was beautiful . I had to learn to handle myself. It became worse, when I moved to the city for education. There are millions of people hiding behind screens purchasing elicit content and others presenting elicit content 4 million people are content creators. They are high earners they can afford the emotional support and counsel, what about the Women or young men that are making minimum wage online, the average is less that $200 per week, the rest is online slavery.
Being objectified, it is normal in the arts much has been done to change standards, in Popular culture ,in music was standard as expected, as a Woman that you were even slightly recognized. The industries have done a lot to change it, it still exists. What goes on behind the scenes and what is presented to the public are different.
In very recent years, women are objectifying themselves as a form of digital acceptance, to make ends meet and the opportunity at making more money than they could at a minimum wage retail job. The younger the woman the more she’d be rewarded financially with money and gifts, mostly online bait for pedos, or pedo wealthy married men. They once called these young women Jail Bait and Honey Pots, young women used to lure wealthy men into sex with minors or sold to them in trafficking rings. A consenting woman or man must be over the age of 18. I researched the repercussions on young women and men.
Art was where I was able to express myself. I selected the traditional route. As an Art Student, I worked with nude Models as a form of study, to me it was human anatomy. Art Models were not sexualized although many were throughout History by men . It was easier for Male Artists to use prostitutes for their nudes because a married woman in society would be put to the stake.
My first session, I blushed and giggled the first time I drew and painted a man posing . I was immature at this point. The more I saw nude people in the arts, the more it did not bother me. I enjoyed creating figurative art. I studied art history. The way I look at art is different from what another person sees as nudity. I simply saw beauty in the human form.
Industries have built their fortunes on human exploitation. It comes in different forms.
Humans have exploited and objectified one another since the beginning of time. Slavery and through sexual slavery, the modern day digital realm is history repeating itself, in a digital manner, however some women are exploited, while others are rewarded.
Society has been messed up and corrupted, addicted, when it comes to morality and standards on Women and young women when it comes to their sexuality. Men had to go a lot to see a nude woman in a magazine, today it takes less than 2 seconds to see sexual images of women online. It is worse than the Papyrus of Egyptians or equivalent. Museums hid this kind of history.
In the digital age, people increasingly explore and express their sexual identities online, unfortunately many or the majority are exploited. Young people are faced with the choice of doing this and then becoming shamed or black mailed for it. It is always about money. It is always about power and control over others and the masses. Is this one of the marks of the beasts, the Bible describes? It kind of makes one wonder. Digital Babylon. “Content is king” may be a well-known marketing phrase, but it’s also a sobering analysis of our culture. Digital Babylon all pushing to redefine our identities, rewire our beliefs, and reorient our desires. Now add handheld screens and four hours of every day mediating relationships on technology and you’re beginning to get a glimpse of the landscape of Digital Babylon. Worldview is open-minded and inclusive mostly instant. They are highly individualistic and see this as an advantage. As a group, asserting one view as right or wrong is not a stance they are willing to take. While they often have a hard time articulating what truth is and where truth comes from, they have hearts that see an inclusive world with differences being an advantage to everyone. Technology is a shaping force in their life of tech Millionaires, Billionaires shaping their very existence. From handheld devices to screens in the car, they have always had, known, and experienced screen time. Most of them spend at least four hours every day in front of a screen. Socially engineered as intentional Generation Z and to future generations.
The management and development of digital sexual identities can provide opportunities of empowerment on the individual, interpersonal, and societal level. At the same time, social media users are confronted with risks of sexual disempowerment in terms of identity de-validation, social exclusion, discrimination or even criminalization.” It is a psychopathic double standard. The destruction of Generation Z. There are social credit systems used by countries as a means of population control with surveillance. This is the age of technocracy and the division of human identities , split sexual identity, with the exploitation of Generation X of tech financial empowerment.
“The review article summarizes the current state of research on six selected sexual identities: (1) heterosexual, (2) LGBTIQ+, (3) asexual, (4) kink and fetish, (5) polyamory, and (6) sex worker identities in digital contexts. Covering a variety of social media platforms and cultural backgrounds, the review demonstrates that digital sexual identities are best understood as multifaceted socio-technical phenomena with ambivalent outcomes.”
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