The new generations have a kind of strange obsession with renaming things and concepts that already existed, as if they had discovered them. This is something more typical of Generation Z than of the millennials themselves, although they are always targeted when talking about ghosting, mansplanning and others. In some cases, these new nomenclatures are indeed useful to be able to better define a reality that, although it existed previously, had not become so popular. In others, a way is simply sought to specify the new that has been created thanks to technology. And it is that in these last thirty years all kinds of new forms of interaction have appeared, especially through the Internet, which give fuel to this rebranding. The concept of sexting, for example, has been born in recent years as a result of interactions that did not exist before.
Because the closest thing we could find to sexting before the arrival of the Internet were erotic telephone lines, or racy letters. The expansion of the network and the possibility of starting conversations with people on the other side of the world, in an agile and direct way, has changed everything. Applications like Whatsapp have revolutionized the way we communicate with others. In fact, when someone does not have this type of instant messaging apps, they end up in a kind of social limbo, isolated from the groups where decisions are made. The Internet has given us an invaluable tool to continue developing our social interactions, although it is also very dangerous, because we feel that we are connected to others just by talking to them through a screen. The paradox of the Internet age has also led us to prefer online contact to physical contact in many cases, for people who are more shy or shy. Sex has always been present as a topic of conversation on the Internet, and over the years the way in which we relate to others in this regard has even evolved. From the first sexual chats to the situation we live in today there is a big difference.
Some place the birth of Internet in the early 1980s, but it is true that in those days the network only had a few connected computers. It is in the 90s when the Internet ends up really reaching the great public, expanding through millions of homes first in the United States and then in the rest of the world. The first pages and platforms were very simple, since the load speeds did not allow too many frills. Bulletin boards, obsolete chats… And a recurring theme: sex. The Internet also managed to highlight the most important interests of these new generations, and obviously, sex was one of them. Before videos or digitized photos began to be uploaded, chats and forums about racy stories were already triumphing in this germinal network.
Beginnings are always complicated, and with the Internet it was not going to be any different. It was a technology still in its infancy when in the 90s it began to spread through different teams and computers around the world. A direct connection between them that, thanks to computer advances, allowed access to common pages full of all kinds of information. Lighting up a promising future, the Information Age was being born in those early 90s. Sharing knowledge was the mission of those first pages and blogs, but the Internet soon also turned to the side of entertainment. Pages that had to do with movies, television, music or sports emerged. Forums where anyone could give their opinion through comments. And also the first chats, which connected unknown people through a special application, perhaps separated by thousands of kilometers.
It didn’t take long for sex to engulf those first social interactions on the Internet. It was a common interest and as such, many began to use the network to have somewhat more intimate encounters with the people who were on the other side of the screen. All this without really knowing if they were talking to a blonde, tall and morbid girl, as they assured him, or if they were vilely deceived by some joker. The privacy offered by the Internet, being an anonymous network, allowed this type of game, something that also added a lot of morbidity, and in part, security to those who used it. Those early sex chats were just text, so you had to put your imagination into it. It was the first form of sexting, and many even became addicted to those conversations, which offered real pleasure.
Technology has continued to evolve in recent years, allowing the Internet to expand much more rapidly. We are witnessing a true revolution that has changed everything in a matter of a couple of decades. And while it is true that, when it comes to predicting the future, many would expect that by this time there would already be flying cars and so on, the growth of the Internet and the options it currently offers us were difficult to foresee. . The importance of the connection became apparent as early as the late 1990s, when lines began to get faster and allow larger data exchanges. This is how the first websites with live online videos emerged. And obviously, the most recurrent theme in those pages would be sex.
Different companies are created dedicated to live sexual chats, via webcam. Erotic models who stand in front of a camera, in a small room, to get naked and get very naughty with men connected all over the world. Thanks to a small payment, these users can access this erotic content and even interact with the girl so that she meets certain challenges. The 2000s were the golden age of this type of service, while the traditional porn industry was forced to adapt to this new vision. The Internet was beginning to take advantage of the usual media, and users were no longer satisfied with entering erotic chats by words. They wanted to see the action in the first person, and enjoy, if their connection allowed, something much more explicit.
But precisely, the same revolution that raises a sector can take away everything achieved in it in a short time. The webcam rooms had their moment of glory, but little by little this was diluted. Porn has become practically free on the web, on platforms where we can find any video we want. The interaction is not the same, but in the end one decides to pay or not for that content, and that makes the difference. The arrival of apps like Tinder has also made everything turn to a closer view of sex, where we are protagonists and not just spectators. Now, to make a sex chat, you don’t need to connect with a sex professional on the Internet. And that’s also an interesting change to note in the way sex has evolved thanks to the web.