It’s no secret that social media has long turned into sex networks. For whom will this documentary be useful? Probably for the parents. It is important for them to know what age children and adolescents live in, what trends are affected in a society obsessed with virtual communication.
For the rest, including the knowledgeable youth, Sex on the Internet will not reveal much. The young actress travels with the operator in search of answers to banal, but logical questions related to the topic covered.
Young people are divided into categories:
- one way or another using social networks for intimate short-term acquaintances;
- faced with "personality theft" on the Internet;
- virtual prostitutes;
The boy who took revenge on the girl by point number two.
The actress talks to “hunters” and “victims”, alternately giving out her Old Believer judgments that “it seems not bad, but not good, but I just don’t understand this, but everyone is responsible for himself.” In fact, the facts covered in the film, given their incredible relevance for our time, are not so surprising: online dating is a commodity-exchange relationship. You sell yourself to someone else; you impersonate someone else; you buy the body of someone else for your own satisfaction; or you use an app to find someone you like who wants to meet, literally at your most convenient distance. Everything is simple, cynical, without hesitation.
Adults who know little about the powerful and violent space of the Internet are shocked by this reality. But shock is therapy, because forewarned means armed. Of course, there will be parents who, having learned the “terrible truth”, will forbid their children even to go online, but such a method is extremely stupid: the absence of the desired creates resistance. We should not restrict teenagers in this, we should be their friends, because if a teenager trusts mom and dad, he himself will understand that there are boundaries that you do not need to go beyond.
Another morality was also pleased, which was still not allowed to turn around for full coverage in the film: virtual sex violates the physiology of real rapprochement. In itself, sitting on the Internet, and even for the purpose of self-satisfaction, is voluntary isolation, which makes any modest person confident, but in fact does not change much. I would like to learn more about the psychophysical impact of this phenomenon on a person and his body, rather than constantly listening to the opinion of a girl actress about one or another side of the “cyberinthim”. However, the sides were shown acceptable, and the film itself is short and not boring.
6 out of 10