Sexuality and intimacy: ideas of personal presentation and social interaction
Friday, October 16, 2009 by Anonymous
Technology is being used in various ways which was not present in past years. Using technology involves issues around risk taking and surfaces emotions of anxiety among many users. A great deal of this revolves around the issues of security and trust. Doctor Goode presented a lecture on ‘sexuality and intimacy online’ where it had a mention about Bauman and his argument addressing the idea of separation between freedom and security. In reference to this argument, we can make out an idea of how people are restricted in freedom due to security matters. Through the media online, we are often faced with various people whom we’ve never met before. As a result, we are required to trust and protect our own security when dealing with social interactions. This leads to restrictions of freedom in doing certain activities due to this matter of security.
Furthermore, many users use technology as a means of expressing personal emotions, thus sharing love and romance. In order to attract others, we often find ourselves presenting ourselves in a unique way, yet not too different that it will put other people off. Everyone has their own unique way of presenting themselves using their own unique attractive features. For example, havent we all taken photos in ways that will make us most attractive? The problem with certain people is that they use photoshop in order to improve their appearances. This partially breaches the notion of ‘trust’ as it is not a genuine presentation of themselves. Furthermore, people are beginning to be more and more aware such different techniques that people use. As a result, people find it more and more difficult to trust and share intimacy judging but what they are presented with in the digital realm.
The idea of love and romance online can be very advantageous to us. To maintain this relationship, it will be crucial that all users are honest and make efforts to preserve the notion of ‘trust’ among the users.
Furthermore, many users use technology as a means of expressing personal emotions, thus sharing love and romance. In order to attract others, we often find ourselves presenting ourselves in a unique way, yet not too different that it will put other people off. Everyone has their own unique way of presenting themselves using their own unique attractive features. For example, havent we all taken photos in ways that will make us most attractive? The problem with certain people is that they use photoshop in order to improve their appearances. This partially breaches the notion of ‘trust’ as it is not a genuine presentation of themselves. Furthermore, people are beginning to be more and more aware such different techniques that people use. As a result, people find it more and more difficult to trust and share intimacy judging but what they are presented with in the digital realm.
The idea of love and romance online can be very advantageous to us. To maintain this relationship, it will be crucial that all users are honest and make efforts to preserve the notion of ‘trust’ among the users.