SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cosplay, Phone Sex, Ageplay

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

At a cost: hostesses, exotic dancing, prostitution, subsidized dating. In cyberspace: pornography websites, chat rooms, web cam dancers, dating/sex service websites. The study of social interaction of human individuals in virtual communities and networks, organizations and personal relations. These new virtual entities are no long defined by geographic or even symbolic boundaries. Instead, communities and networks, organizations and personal relations are being constructed in cyberspace on the basis of common affiliate. Men more likely to seek visual materials; women ten to prefer chatting. Without my parents permission i will not provide personal information, such as my address, phone number, work address or business phone number of my parents, or the name and place of my school. I will never make an appointment with someone i met on the internet without asking my parents permission first. If my parents consent i will see to it that it happens in public and that my father or mother will join me.