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The court also asked the IT Ministry to examine what measures could be taken to block the online circulation of such videos. Wonder what can be done to block

• AlexeyBrin 10y ago
  > Wonder what can be done to block such incidents when ministers in Indian Parliament watch porn. This has nothing to do with watching porn. Plenty of men watch porn and don't rape anyone. It has everything to do with a culture that blames the victim of a rape for the actual rape.
  • drspacemonkey 10y ago
    While I don't disagree with you at all, the fact that "ministers in Indian Parliament watch porn" is meant literally makes me wonder what kind of overlap there is. These are elected officials watching porn on their phones during parliamentary sessions. I'm not saying that one causes the other, just that they both might be symptomatic of a related root cause.
    • dennisgorelik 10y ago
      Yes: that root cause is that men want sex. Now that you know that common cause - what's your next logical step?
  • 0xmohit 10y ago
    The culture gets worse because those committing crimes get away so easily. More than 80% of rape incidents go unreported, and a small fraction of the accused in the remaining ones are convicted. And a fair number of ministers have been accused of rape.
  • stinkytaco 10y ago
    Just in the interest of playing devil's advocate here, do you truly believe that porn does not play at least some role in fostering the culture? I don't know the answer to that, but even if you don't rape anyone, you could absolutely still play a part in creating a culture that blames the victim. After all, if we believe in a culture of influence, then to some extent the media and people we surround ourselves with must play some role in shaping individual attitudes and behaviors, which can then feed each other to reinforce the culture. Is our porn a reflection of our culture, or are we reflections of our porn?
    • AlexeyBrin 10y ago
      Think about it, watching porn is a relatively new phenomenon in remote Indian villages. Do you really think this could have contributed in any way to create a culture of gang rape and of woman shaming ? Banning (or blaming) porn just shifts the focus from the real problem here. > Is our porn a reflection of our culture, or are we reflections of our porn? Neither.
      • summarite 10y ago
        Internet porn might be new there, but porn/erotica certainly not. Just like Victorian erotica these villagers too will have had at least three possibility to access pornographic materials. That's actually part of the reason why western women get harassed frequently in India, which is not really a new thing (and buy to neglect that Indian women get harassed a lot) - the men have primarily access to western porn and that's often the only white women they've seen, so if they encounter a real westerner they think she'll behave like those in the magazine's/movies/...
      • stinkytaco 10y ago
        That's certainly true. It is a phenomenon that predates pornography, though from the news coverage I'm given to understand it happens more now? Or perhaps it's just shining light onto a long standing problem. I don't know enough about the culture to really say, just trying to understand it.
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