May 6 2012: You can be a spokesman against porn in India and help change public attitudes toward it. Porn objectifies women and you can get the word out.
May 6 2012: There is a correlation between porn and date rape. Check the police files. Adolescents do not have a mature enough mindset toward sexuality to understand what you are saying without being educated about it in high school. In western countries there IS an incredible amount of rape cases! So it is rational to assume that there is a correlation between porn and sexual assault. There is a correlation between porn and sexual addiction. Rape is a result of the porn industry objectifying women and portraying women and men in the wrong way. The ideals of a healthy human interaction which you describe are not yet inculcated into teenagers. A person should have to take a course on human sexuality before being able to access porn. Read "Porn Nation" by Michael Leahy and "Pornified" by Pamela Paul for the evidence. Their bibliography will provide even more resources. The porn industry is powerful.
May 6 2012: I disagree with your solution. We need sex education in our high schools with a discussion about how porn objectifies women and men. Two great reads relating to this are "Porn Nation" by Michael Leahy and Pornified by Pamela Paul. In "Porn Nation" Leahy notes that the average person in the United States is exposed to 14,000 messages of sexual inuendo a year, even if not watching porn. It is found in advertising. Trying to lock the gate to the candy store won't help. We have to educate about how unhealthy the candy is. When we are educated that this is not healthy sexuality, in high school and earlier, our adolescent curiosity suddenly has a shield to protect its purity from the hatred for the human race that porn communicates in its sneeky underhanded way. Education would put a dent in this powerful industry. Only the gambling industry has more money spent on it. Our attitudes toward human sexuality must change in order to give mankind a chance to thrive. Porn is not rational, therefore it hampers mankind's chance of surviving.
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