Historical transit of pornography: transformations to the age of the internet

Abstract

Internet pornography is an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of mankind. The present article seeks to exhibit a theoretical-historical review that accounts for the cultural and socio-legal transformations that allowed its conformation, while highlighting the distinctive features that separate it  qualitatively from other similar forms of eroticizing material. In a dialectical movement characterized initially by sexuality and divinity’s merging, later by a dark era of censorship and oppression, and finally by a new liberation as commodity and entertainment in the information age, pornography undergoes vertiginous transformations far ahead the study of academia, particularly in the Latin American context.