Categorization of Pornographic Video Clips on the Internet. A Cognitive Anthropological Approach

      Аннотация: Anthropological study of the Internet pornography can refer to the cultural communication between the authors of sites and users, and that is important to this work as it assumes supracultural activities on the Internet and comprises the pornography users as a distinct population. The aim of this study is to determine, through the categorization of porn clips in the Internet, cognitive schemes and cultural models which explain the principles of such classification and provide the information on the cultural thought that lies behind the interpretation of the Internet pornography during the organization of that particular part of virtual reality by the pornographic sites' authors and their users. At the end, any behaviour on the Internet is believed to be legitimate just because it is virtual, making the evaluation parameters appear to come down to the esthetic element and the physical safety, while everything has its price. The Internet pornography represents a consistent continuation of the history of pornography because the behavior exhibited during its use also represents a side effect of a cultural environment of the group using it.

Ключевые слова: categories, Cognitive Anthropology, Pornography, the Internet, the history of the Internet, the history of pornography