Chatroulette a way to enhance sexuality and intimacy online

New Media allows for new ways to broaden intimate relationships in many positive ways but also many negative ways. In the lecture on sexuality and intimacy online we discussed how the Internet and sites such as Chat roulette are making it more and more easier to meet people online, to become intimate with the also to be put in danger.

Recently on 60 Minutes; they looked into the issue of Chat roulett and how its users are being harmed. In particular a mother and daughter who witnessed a young girl being raped by an older man. They stayed online while they called the police and attempted to find out as much information as possible about the whereabouts of this child. This relates to what we discussed about online pornography and it is now a lot easier to access pornography than it was in the past. In this incidence the people who were affected by the live video was not only the young girl in the video but all of the people watching it with no way of helping the victim. This site and others similar to it can be very dangerous when used incorrectly, and is the perfect example of how new media has changed the way sexuality and intimacy is viewed by society.

http://shufflepeople.woome.com/?wtm_source=google&wtm_medium=cpc&wtm_campaign=ShufflePeople-Search&wtm_adgroup=Chatroulette-SP&wtm_keyword=chatroulette&wtm_network=Search&wtm_placement=&gclid=CKynsYOL1KQCFQITbAodI39DKA This site is very easy to access, you do not even need a user name to sign in before you start playing. It is very concerning that the only warning that there could be explicit sites in the videos is '18+, keep it clean, or be reported'. There is no warning what so ever that you may see something you do not want to see.

New media and sites such as Chat roulette open up new means for deception in relationships to increase. There is more ways of seeing other potential partners through these sites, and as many people who are on these sites may be looking for new partners it is possible that users who already do have partners may find it very difficult to resist. But this type of new media is not always negative, it also opens up new ways for relationships to be experimental, for example if you have a long distance relationship there are many more ways to contact your partner with new medias such as Skype and mobile phones.