As the market is flooded with cheap smart phones, providing excessive supply of porn in the palms of millions, experts attribute the growing number of rapes to unrestricted availability of porn stuff
The News Bureau
Yet another barbaric gang rape shook the country, this time not in a moving bus in Delhi nor an abandoned mill compound in Mumbai, it happened very much in Hyderabad, in the IT hub of Cyberabad limits. &nbs
While experts attribute the growing number of rapes to various reasons including ‘provocative’ dressing of women and their free movements during odd hours, Abishek Clifford, who runs a moral awareness program for Indian colleges called Rescue, has something else to say.
“We're raising up an army of rapists in India by not warring against internet pornography,” Clifford told Global Post.
According to a report appeared in America’s world news site, with the $100 smart phones hitting the market and savvy entrepreneurs hawking downloaded clips, once-innocent Indians are watching hard-core porn like never before, thus the smut flood sparking a serious debate about the impact on society.
According to Global Post, since the December gang rape of a Delhi student, who died from internal injuries sustaine
It may be remembered that distributing porn stuff in India is illegal. Now, the authorities are moving to crack down on web porn — even as in many other areas the country grows more liberal in its attitude towards sex.
Global Post reports: “Ancient India had no qualms about graphic depictions of sex. Consider the luxurious illustrations of the Kama Sutra, or the carvings on the 1,000-year-old temples of Khajuraho — which depict everything from threesomes to bestiality. But, until recently, modern India has been decidedly more prudish.
In the '80s and '90s, films with lascivious dialogue and a few shots of buxom women in wet saris were considered softcore porn. Bollywood didn't even dare show kissing until a few years back. And the country's first “real” porn star was a cartoon.
Now, suddenly, affordable smart phones have put hardcore porn in the palms of millions.”
The website said quoting statistics from Manwin Holding, the Luxembourg-based owner of the world's largest free porn sites, India's 150 million-odd internet users visit those two sites alone at a clip of around 2 million hits per day. The presence of Indian-themed content (“naked desi babes in bath” is one of the few printable titles) and advertisements confirm that the multibillion dollar industry has taken note.
Meanwhile, reported incidents of rape have nearly doubled since 1995, when the internet first came to India, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. More recently, rape reports have spiked 12 percent since cheap smart phones hit the market two years ago, although it's impossible to parse how much of that increase stems from the greater willingness of victims to come forward.
“Pornography is en masse perverting the lifestyles and behaviors of y
According to reports, in June, the department of telecommunications banned 39 websites, all hosted abroad, that allow users to share pornographic content. Also a parliamentary committee was formed to explore ways to block internet pornography altogether in response to the latest of many petitions that have demanded a blanket ban.