Technoglitch
Core Member
1. Bans are stupid. Bans of Internet sites that can be circumvented are stupider still.
2. Child pornography is bad, morally, legally, ethically and anyone found peddling it, promoting it, selling it, watching it, needs to go straight to jail.
That leaves us with the two sides of the debate. The cultural argument perpetuates the notion that “nice” women don’t and should not enjoy sex. Moreover, what culture are we talking about? The one celebrated in the statues at Khajuraho and other temples or the one that kills unborn daughters, sanctions “honour” killings, and tolerates marital rape or the one in which some Bharatiya Janata Party state legislators browse porn clips in the house? So, yes, the cultural argument is entirely bogus.
There is no one-size-fits-all porn. If you look at aggregator websites, they will helpfully break it down to categories (straight, gay, anime etc). What they don’t talk about is other categories of porn. Revenge porn, for instance, made by consenting adults while in a relationship but leaked on social networks when there is a falling out.
Because public memory tends to be short, we’ve forgotten the now infamous MMS clip of a young schoolgirl performing oral sex on her then boyfriend. The clip went viral. A full-fledged feature film was made. Millions watched but the boyfriend who made and leaked the clip never faced any legal consequences nor did those who watched or profited from that episode. The girl eventually left the country.
Technology has overtaken us since, making it easier to share and disseminate porn. One of the fall-outs is celebrity porn. When we watch naked pictures and videos of celebrities leaked by hackers in the privacy of our homes or when we forward them on Whatsapp and other apps, are we not aiding and abetting?
Can we ignore correlations between porn and crime? I am aware this is a thorny issue and rape certainly predates both porn and the technology that abets it. But remember the widely reported Shakti Mills rape case contained accounts of how the rapists forced their victim to enact porn clips that they had saved on their phones
Can we ignore correlations between porn and crime? - Livemint
2. Child pornography is bad, morally, legally, ethically and anyone found peddling it, promoting it, selling it, watching it, needs to go straight to jail.
That leaves us with the two sides of the debate. The cultural argument perpetuates the notion that “nice” women don’t and should not enjoy sex. Moreover, what culture are we talking about? The one celebrated in the statues at Khajuraho and other temples or the one that kills unborn daughters, sanctions “honour” killings, and tolerates marital rape or the one in which some Bharatiya Janata Party state legislators browse porn clips in the house? So, yes, the cultural argument is entirely bogus.
There is no one-size-fits-all porn. If you look at aggregator websites, they will helpfully break it down to categories (straight, gay, anime etc). What they don’t talk about is other categories of porn. Revenge porn, for instance, made by consenting adults while in a relationship but leaked on social networks when there is a falling out.
Because public memory tends to be short, we’ve forgotten the now infamous MMS clip of a young schoolgirl performing oral sex on her then boyfriend. The clip went viral. A full-fledged feature film was made. Millions watched but the boyfriend who made and leaked the clip never faced any legal consequences nor did those who watched or profited from that episode. The girl eventually left the country.
Technology has overtaken us since, making it easier to share and disseminate porn. One of the fall-outs is celebrity porn. When we watch naked pictures and videos of celebrities leaked by hackers in the privacy of our homes or when we forward them on Whatsapp and other apps, are we not aiding and abetting?
Can we ignore correlations between porn and crime? I am aware this is a thorny issue and rape certainly predates both porn and the technology that abets it. But remember the widely reported Shakti Mills rape case contained accounts of how the rapists forced their victim to enact porn clips that they had saved on their phones
Can we ignore correlations between porn and crime? - Livemint
