Lecture 6

Not until after watching lecture 6 did it occurred to me that the ASCll public files were used back in the day to create pornographic images.  I know people use them all the time now to show off sexual things.  You can log onto facebook or even myspace and look at someone’s wall and 9 times out of 10 you are guaranteed to see something created out of letters and numbers showing some sort of something sexual on their walls posted by one of their friends or someone just wanting to be stupid and funny.  I never realized till now that this has been happening for years I just thought this was a funny thing that people did to piss off other people it didn’t really occur to me that it had to have started somewhere otherwise no one would know how to create such things.  I also found it interesting how you mentioned towards the end of the lecture that many people used to think that women were not into watching pornographic videos and a number of times they were asked to leave areas because one was going to be shown.  I don’t get why people think that women don’t watch porn videos because the people in the videos are women who is to say that they don’t watch them, if they are willing to be in them.  It makes the assumption that women are not open to their sexual side as much as men are which I think is completely not true.