On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 09:08 +0530, Kenney Jacob wrote: > I said in the context that porn will mislead the teenagers and > children.
> And it will educate the adults !!!!! Though this list is not about sex or porn, having had several mails that I find somewhat problematic, I thought I should respond. There are several problems with porn, which are not always true for all sexual material. For one, porn vulgarises sex. Male-female relationship is not just about sex, though sex does have an important role. Porn tends to highlight sex at the cost of other human relationships. That is the difference between pornography and good literature that may have even explicit sexual content. Another is that pornography generally tends to show woman as an object for man's pleasure. This can lead to a distorted understanding that can affect the relationship between husband and wife, male and female friends, boyfriend and girlfriend. Even brother and sister. Remember, sensible sex education was objected to by a section of the society so that children can now learn about sex only from pornography or from adults who have other intentions. Child abuse is very common in our society, though no one would want to speak about it. Pornography where both sexes treat each other with respect, and treats each other as fellow human beings, may not be all that bad. But I wonder whether there exists such a thing. Not that I am an expert in the matter! Best Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
