Supreme Court ordered PTA to ban all porn websites on the internet. But is PTA still able to stop this epidemic which has been destroying western civilization for the past 60 years and is now destroying our generation. The reason I am calling porn an epidemic is that it spreads faster and has more dangerous effects than any other disease. It destroys the minds of the young and intoxicates them so much that they will spend much of their time on the computers watching porn. And when their sexual fantasies are not fulfilled, they will turn to other sources like prostitution. In the past few years, cases of child rape and pedophilia have been alarmingly increased as reported on the media which can be attributed to adult material.
Although internet is the major source of pornographic material and banning the websites has helped a lot. But there is still more to be done. When the websites were banned all that traffic shifted to the shops and markets where pornographic material is readily available. In all major cities of Pakistan, you can find this material at all CD markets and shops, which is smuggled or downloaded from alternate sources. Then there are internet clubs which are the breeding grounds of a pornoholic generation. Internet clubs are the perfect places for people who can spend hours watching Indian /Hollywood movies and porn in total privacy. Almost all the internet clubs where porn is available admit that they are doing the wrong thing but they also say that this is the only reason why users come to their establishments.
Apart from the internet there are other sources of adult material. In the last year cable operators have introduced a digital receiver in several cities which can be purchased by them and some channels on this digital receiver are dedicated pornographic and adult content channels. Giving little higher fees than usual will unlock these channels. A few years back Indian TV channels were banned from the cable after direction of PEMRA but the content is still available on the different CD channels and the digital receivers. And our mainstream media channels are probably the biggest fans of westernized culture and would do anything to air programs and movies of Indian and western genre. Most TV channels feel proud of airing Indian movies during prime time on weekends and on holidays and advertise the time and date weeks in advance. These are the same TV channels where analysts and hosts condemn the vulgar language and dances of the stage dramas and yet they will air Bollywood movies with pride. The question that arises in my mind is that do they find anything similar between the stage dramas and the Indian movies? My local cable operator (who I have asked several times to stop the Indian movies and Indian dramas) said to me that they will have to close the business or will lose major clientele if they will stop Indian content, and they are perfectly willing to lose me as their client if I don’t want this content on my TV.
What I am seeing today is alarming and very dangerous. I have seen people who are addicted to adult material and spend 1 to 3 hours daily watching porn. I had surveyed several internet clubs during the past week and asked the owners about this. And I got some harsh replies that this is the personal matter of these people and why do I have no right to interfere in their personal lives. Programs and content available on the mainstream media are also behind exploiting sexual desires of young boys and girls. When the minds of people are bombarded with women dancing in miniskirts and smooching between boys and girls, soon they will accept this as a perfectly normal behavior. And after some time they will be doing the same thing. A very good example is India, where an estimated 50% of men and women have sex before marriage and in most areas this is considered to be normal. A few years back sex before marriage was not part of the Indian culture. And today they are even asking parents to tell their children about protection and precautions. Over the course of few years our culture has deviated from our roots and is now getting closer and closer to western and Indian culture and in my opinion if is situation prevails, pretty soon we will be facing the same problems the west is facing today.
