Wednesday 26 June 2013

The culture of banning



http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/govt-bans-39-pornographic-sites_857830.html

The government, in their own wisdom (or the lack of it) have announced the banning of 39 sites which, in their opinion, are pornographic. What surprises me most is that the executive who are paid out of our money has been able to track ONLY 39 sites! They could have just checked my bookmark and found much more than that! Having said that, I took a pause to click on a few of them and check if they are within the list of 39. Thank the devil, they aren't.

It's too late in the night to debate on the right of an adult to access material which are erotic in nature. When there was no internet, there were street corner shops selling Playboy/Penthouse and others at a steep premium. But still, lot of us owe our first orgasm to those titillating images and raunchy stories. I wish we didn't have to learn about the most natural act through the backdoor (no pun intended!).

The culture of banning and prohibition has never achieved anything in any part of the world. It has always been the human nature to go for the prohibited. The pleasures of the illicit have lured  more than any religions sermon. This is a country where the term SEX, if spoken openly or printed on a form, only means the gender and not how many times you have done it, or do you do it all the possible ways and more! This is a country which if oblivious of the gender spectrum and looks down upon anyone who doesn't fit into the binary. This is the same country which spoke of sex and its different forms of practice much before, maybe, the coinage of the term "morality".

The solution is not in banning. What the government needs is a composite plan to impart education from the school level till there are no queries left in the mind. Till its citizens are ready to practice sex in a safe surrounding, with proper protection and necessary precautions and upon mutual consent without the fear of the State peeping into its private space.

The moment of an earth shattering orgasm is a moment of bliss! If you are reading this, then be sure that even your parents had sex!

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