India's battle with online porn
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Access to pornography though mobile phones has been sudden and widespread in India: some say way too sudden for a conservative society, and blame this for the sexual violence against women.
But when legal attempts are made to ban pornography, a strong resistance emerges in the name of freedom of expression, including sexual expression. Others argue that online pornography is the wrong target, pointing out that around a third of porn viewers in India are women.
But what do Indian men themselves make of this? The BBC’s India Women Affairs correspondent Divya Arya travels the country to meet men from all backgrounds to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the BBC World Service. I'm Divia Aria and this is India's Battle with Online Porn. |
| 0:08.0 | A word of warning as you may have guessed from its title, the program deals with issues related to pornography and sexual |
| 0:15.2 | violence. |
| 0:16.2 | I was 11 and it was the first time I had seen anything connected to sex and it was |
| 0:26.4 | straight away hardcore born. Like a few things that I remember obviously shock and |
| 0:31.3 | everything else was I want to see more of this. |
| 0:37.2 | This is good. |
| 0:39.7 | I was not able to control it. I was not able to control I was not able to control myself from watching it. |
| 0:47.0 | I kept wanting to watch it. |
| 0:49.0 | I liked watching it, but I was also afraid. |
| 0:52.0 | A lot of questions went in my mind I was thinking do my parents do it that way? |
| 0:57.0 | Do my friends do it that way? |
| 0:58.0 | Do my friends do it that way? |
| 0:59.0 | Is this normal? Is this not normal? |
| 1:02.0 | For many young Indian men, |
| 1:05.0 | their introduction to sex is the first time they watch porn. |
| 1:09.0 | While that can provide answers to a curious mind, |
| 1:12.0 | it can also confuse it, especially when the online |
| 1:16.4 | world is awash with all kinds of content, from Hollywood professional porn, amateur footage to images of child sexual abuse and rape videos. |
| 1:27.0 | Rape videos and rape pornography is huge. |
| 1:32.0 | Within a few clicks you would be coming across videos which |
| 1:34.6 | are showing rape or physical abuse. Access to such videos through low-cost smartphones |
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