On 26 Apr 2013, at 07:53, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Shoba Narayan <[email protected]>wrote: > >>> The principal ground of the petition is that pornography is >>> directly linked to the rise in heinous sexual offences against women. >> >> Is this true though? Can it be proved through numbers and studies? > > > If this is true, why was there not an explosion of sexual crimes when porn > became freely available on the internet, about 20 years ago? I believe > that, within reason, human beings need more outlets, especially in our > repressed, prudish, hypocritical society. The more we ban things, the more > we make a moral issue out of them, and the more we push them underground, > where problems continue to simmer and fester out of sight, occasionally > erupting in unbearable ways. > > There are no easy solutions...but a ban (how on earth are they to enforce > this?) is, to my mind, not the answer. > > I have talked to both young women and men (far fewer of the former, given > the taboos in our society) who say that when things are very frustrating > at work, watching porn, and the subsequent release, act as a relief valve. > But we have such a stigma about every part of our sexuality...one of the > things my American son-in-law first remarked upon was the total absence of > open physical context between couples, whether they were married or not. It > simply is Not Done to touch someone you love in public...I see this, even > now, with young people. > > I would call different sexual preferences "perverted" when it involves > hurting someone else, with or without that person's consent, or knowledge. > Such perversion, I think, has always existed...porn or not. Cain murdered > Abel before violent movies were being screened. > > Deepa.
The problem with this scenario is that porn, increasingly violent porn, is the only source of learning on the subject of sex for many boys/men. http://read.thestar.com/#!/article/51753a877b1eac16220000a9-is-pornography-changing-how-teens-view-sex Ingrid @ingridsrinath
