Pornography seems to evoke instant interest. And the responses, predictably, in most newspapers, to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed default filter on porn sites are prolific. I’ve thought more about porn in the last year, than I’ve had reason to ever before. The April Jones case haunted me. As did the Tia Sharp tragedy. The police reported both killers had images of child porn on their computers.
I’ve had many young people insist that porn is not the reason behind rape or child abuse. Admittedly there are additional factors. But over and over again, evidence points to the fact that porn is playing a pivotal role in both adult and child rape crimes.
In India, we are facing a horrendous daily dose of women and child rape and murder than has ever been recorded in our history. We have always been a child friendly country. An English friend told me how she loved Air India, because the crew, including male pursers, picked up her baby and held it to allow her to eat her meal in peace. Yet we are witnessing an unbelievable surge of sexual violence in India which threatens the very fabric of this society. It’s more dangerous for a woman or child to be alone in our cities currently, than it was 20 years ago.
Yesterday I read a story about a two-and-a-half year old toddler who was kidnapped from beside her sleeping, homeless grandmother soon after midnight. A few hours later, the child’s body was found raped, killed and dumped not far away. The mother was mentally unsound said the report. With a penniless, homeless mother and grandmother, the chances of this story making the headlines of the Delhi media are remote. On 23 July, a 6-year-old child was raped by a 14-year-old boy, a police constable’s son. Full story...
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I’ve had many young people insist that porn is not the reason behind rape or child abuse. Admittedly there are additional factors. But over and over again, evidence points to the fact that porn is playing a pivotal role in both adult and child rape crimes.
In India, we are facing a horrendous daily dose of women and child rape and murder than has ever been recorded in our history. We have always been a child friendly country. An English friend told me how she loved Air India, because the crew, including male pursers, picked up her baby and held it to allow her to eat her meal in peace. Yet we are witnessing an unbelievable surge of sexual violence in India which threatens the very fabric of this society. It’s more dangerous for a woman or child to be alone in our cities currently, than it was 20 years ago.
Yesterday I read a story about a two-and-a-half year old toddler who was kidnapped from beside her sleeping, homeless grandmother soon after midnight. A few hours later, the child’s body was found raped, killed and dumped not far away. The mother was mentally unsound said the report. With a penniless, homeless mother and grandmother, the chances of this story making the headlines of the Delhi media are remote. On 23 July, a 6-year-old child was raped by a 14-year-old boy, a police constable’s son. Full story...
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