In chapter 4 of “Cheap Sex” the author focuses on pornography and masturbation. The author says that the availability and use of porn has skyrocketed in recent years and this newfound increase in usage has direct impacts on the mating and dating market as well as impacts on individual people. Due to the increase in availiability of technology, pornography has become something that is easy to access for free. The author claims that pornography can have an array of negative impacts on both individual people and their relationships. Regnerus claims that pornography presents situations that are not realistic and impact the views and ideas that consumers of pronography will have on sexual experiences. These views are distorted from pronography and can negatively impact the ideas that consumers of pornography will have. Not only does the author claim that pornography distorts the views of consumers he also says it makes them less likely to go out into the real world to pursue a relationship. It is clear that the author sees pornogrpahy as a hinderence to the development of healthy relationships in American society. What are the solutions to this issue?
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In this most recent chapter Regnerus heavily focuses on the use of dating websites and how it has transformed the “dating and mating market”. Regnerus claims that dating websites like tinder have created a market in which sex can simply be comodified and purchased in a sense that the apps themselves are created for that sole purpose. He further explains that the dating market has been transformed by these new apps in a way that creates short-lived relationships that are constantly recycled through many people. The author says that these apps have devalued what people are looking for in amate and has created a quick and fast way to find a mate. Regnerus believes these apps are bad and are devaluing the relationships that are often formed in the dating market. He says the apps make it so that people can temporarily enter the market for one purpose and leave shortly after. I believe that these apps are not necessarily bad and that if people are using these apps to make a quick and easy “transaction” in the dating market, as Regnerus would call it, that is a choice that is up to them and if people want to engage in the mating market in this manner they would do it with or without dating apps. Simply, dating apps just make the market more accessible and I believe there is nothing dangerously wrong with that.