Let’s Talk About Sex

“What’s whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops” -Warren & Brandeis

With any new technology the question of privacy is always brought up.  With camera phones came the issue of guys following girls up stairs and taking pictures up their skirts without their knowledge.  Although most of the time the person who took them was the only one who used these pictures, sometimes these pictures are shared between friends, and sometimes even sold on the Internet.  In lecture 34 the issue of privacy was discussed.  The thing that I found most interesting in this lecture was the fact that poorer people used to sneak into the rich people’s parties and enter rooms “accidentally” where the rich were having sex with their maids, or other lower class individuals.  They would then sell this information to the newspapers in an attempt to ruin the upper classes image.  When considering that this was taking place when newspapers were first being printed, what is really going on today?

We know that there are people who go to spring break locations during spring break and encourage girls to do things they normally wouldn’t do for movies like, “Girls Gone Wild.”  We also know that there are guys who will get girls drunk and take advantage of them and take movies of them doing this and putting these movies online.  I was recently reading an article in a magazine, and it was discussing how a couple of teenage girls lives were ruined simply because of the stupid things that they did when they were drunk.  Many of the girls had to switch high schools, and some of them even moved out of state, all because of what technology has allowed people to do.

Although I think that technology is a great thing, and it allows us to do more and more things we were previously unable to do, it also brings danger where they didn’t used to be.  We now have to watch everything we do, especially when we’re under the influence of drugs or alcohol.  Previously, only words could be printed and would only be delivered to those who paid to receive the newspaper.  However, today an image can go online and be email to millions of people within a couple seconds.  I can only image how much we’ll have to watch what we do as technology advances even further.