Those were the days, when the teens literally fretted and mumbled in the stores for purchasing the adult CD’s, DVD’s which offered relief to their sexual fantasies. Aye, good old days, in fact, hard days. Thanks to the birth of the Internet, which has made viewing porn affordable, accessible and anonymous on demand. It would raise many eyebrows after reading the title as, “Legalization of Porn Industry in India”, well in fact you read it right. How weird is it, that when the government has banned and then retracted the decision to ban 850 porn websites, the discussion for legalizing porn industry has erupted.
Well, I remember this was one of my project, which I did in my MBA class in 2012. And the kind of attention the presentation received was commendable, as any other topics related to Management would have turned into deaf ears. Such an engaging topic it was, that it made every classmate of mine, to come up with their opinion in the one hour presentation. When I think back on that day and when I read last week about the ban on 850 porn websites, it made me regret the fact, how regressive that the government can come up with laws like these in these 21st century, although to come out of BJP was not the only surprise.
India turning undemocratic?
“How does it matter what I do in between the four walls of my bedroom?” angry teens enraged after the porn sites were banned. Absolutely, they have a point here, as the constitution states, India as a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Republic and a Democratic nation. Where is the consensus of democracy in this act? How imbecilic the government of India has acted in banning the porn sites? Where is the liberty of the citizens? A nation which is an apparent heir to become an economic super power goes retard in enacting an authoritarian law. It didn’t end up there, it came up being mocked across western nations for this very act and within days retracting to the ban.
None of the scientific experiments have proved so far that viewing porn is stimulating men to rape. Moreover, it’s time to measure the value both economic and moral, that factors around the Porn Industry. Black market crime in India swells around $68 billion, among which not less than $10 billion constitutes prostitution and human trafficking. Ban or no ban, the industry keeps thriving as the number shows it all. The secular parties portray themselves of saving the culture of the country. But who can deny these hard facts? All the major cities across the country has open prostitution centres. Well, now why doesn’t the government think of legalizing and regulating the industry which is both economically and morally pushing its citizens back?
Most of the countries, partly regulates prostitution. For instance, Thailand is an apt case. Although prostitution is strictly illegal, practice of the same is tolerated and partly regulated. This can be one of the effective strategies the government can examine as extreme steps would do no good for a country like ours. Legalizing prostitution can forcibly bring down the amount of child trafficking that happens behind doors. It would also reduce the violence against women and improve hygiene among the sex workers. And a regulated law could bring the government ample source of tax money as revenue which otherwise would go down into the black market. If considering legalization of prostitution as impossible, then there is no possibility to even think about doing away with pornography. And there can be no thought of banning pornography in the country which gave Kama Sutra to the world. Between, what would the government do with the erotic sculptures in the Khajuraho temples? Winks ;)
Ban Porn
“Fuck this bitch”, “Chick gets ass fucked”, “Be Manly with an extra inch of dick”, “Whore gets gang banged”
This is the kind of welcome message one gets to see after typing the word ‘Porn’ in less than 15 seconds on google. The average click through rate on the ads placed on these sites is 0.8%, compared to Facebook average of 0.4%. And as a Facebook marketer, I completely envy this data. Ofcourse, there aren’t any scientific experiments showing proper evidence towards rape after watching porn. But there are definitely a dozen of statements from the cruel rapists agreeing that it was after watching porn that they felt stimulated to rape, even from the infamous Nirbhaya incubus.
~ 70% of Indian boys began to watch porn at the age of 10.
~ 93% agreed to the fact that watching porn was as addictive as drugs.
~ 86% agreed that watching porn led to a sexual activity.
~ 76% agreed that watching rape porn stimulated the desire in them to rape a woman. (Ref: Times of India, July 25, 2015)
Such is the sickening sexual psychopaths that today’s generation is in making. We are living in a pornified culture which tries to erase the respect of the woman. And the recent violence and rapes across the nation only testifies to that fact. Of the 304 sexual scenes analysed 90% contained one aggressive act both physical and verbal abuse against women. The ego of a young teen is aroused the minute he lands on a porn site, calling him for fucking the whore and tearing her vagina. How bad can a teen below 18 years of age can be exposed and aroused to mainstream porn?
A hard nut to crack
On one hand, the moderates and liberal souls think about the benefits that legalizing porn industry can do to the economy. While the extreme conservatives have gone one step further in banning the porn sites and later retracting the same. Certainly this is a tough nut to crack. But only if people have to accept and realize the fact that both legalizing and banning can never happen in this country, at least not in the near future. But there is a bigger responsibility on the shoulders of the government, which it has to understand and respond. It is the kind of porn that today’s generation are exposed to. Stringent laws have to be enabled on the content front in the porn websites, which is currently quashing the respect of the woman. Severe division among hard-core and soft-core porn has to be established and only the latter has to be encouraged to the viewers while the former can be brought down slowly. And the sex education has to go beyond its current offering, in inculcating the minds of today’s youth that it is not “gagging her throat with penis”, “pulling her hair”, “spitting and ejaculating on her face” is sex. That has to be defined as an activity of a sexual psychopath. End of the day, I would be happy to land on a page which welcomes me in for “Romance and Foreplay”. Winks ;)
Aravind
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