Sexual violence is the new normal in India – and pornography is to blame.

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‘Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre,’ says the supreme court. Instead of lamenting, it should act.

Indian activists protest over the alleged sexual assault of girls at a state-run home in eastern India. Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
▼ Another day, another shocking headline about rape in India, from the 30 girls in a Bihar  shelterwho were allegedly sexually abused over many years to the 10-year-old child who  escaped from another “shelter”  in Uttar Pradeshand ran to a police station asking for help.
Rapes have become the new normal in my country. So much so that India’s supreme court made headlines itself on Monday, asking: “What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre.” This is unusual practice for a supreme court anywhere, and underlines the gravity of the situation. Justice Madan Lokur of the supreme court pointed out: “The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data observes that a woman is raped every six hours in India.”
Even the highly regarded Tata Institute of Social Sciences, in Mumbai, has reported the abuse of minors and women. It uncovered evidence while conducting a social audit of government shelters earlier this year. A medical report confirmed 34 girls had been sexually abused.
The 10-year-old in Uttar Pradesh begged the police to save her and her friends. Every evening, she said, red, black, grey cars came and took her friends away. They brought them back in the morning and the girls cried all day. Please help them, she pleaded. Predictably, she captured hearts and headlines. So it became national news.

Activists take to the streets over the 30 girls in a Bihar shelter who were allegedly abused over many years. Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
Likewise, the alleged gang rape  of a 13-year-old tribal girl, by seven tribal men, five of whom were juveniles. This was in Jharkhand state, adjoining Bihar. The child was grazing cattle outside her village when seven men were said to have pounced on her. One veteran social activist explained to me some decades ago: “Sex before marriage was accepted by tribal communities, so where was the need for rape?”
The same person sadly reported that rape is now rampant in tribal Jharkhand. Boys as young as 10 download pornography from mobile phone shops for as little as 10 rupees (12p). The combination of endless, violent porn videos and alcohol appears to be a lethal trigger for many rapes in India– a country where traditional Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh society strictly forbids not just sex outside marriage but any mixing of the sexes in towns and villages. Arranged marriages are still the norm across all religions. For repressed men to be fed a constant diet of porn on their phones is a recipe for disaster.
The infamous gang rapeof a 23-year-old student in Delhi in 2012 that led the city to be called the “rape capital of the world” was carried out by six men who had just been watching violent porn while drinking alcohol, another taboo in orthodox Indian families. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Rushcourt71

This is a universal problem. There is still no link made by politicians, the mass media, world governments, the UN and other international bodies to the proliferation of porn and the ease of access to it as a primary cause of rape worldwide.

Ananya10

How does pornography responsible for rapes????

leesam3

But even though violent pornography might be a cause, a girl in every six hours?

sks

Ananya10 19-8-2018 08:34 AM
How does pornography responsible for rapes????

Just like air pollution is cause of death.

Most of the time, it (pollution/porn) doesn't cause the effect (death/rape). But almost all the time it is the most vital catalyst of the effect. U r a girl. At least u should understand.

Ananya10

See I'm no saying that pornography is root cause..im proposing that wen you walk on road ti every girl u see u always ashame urself by checking her out her privates...this doesn't have to do anything with pornography..do u also observe similar with ur own sister  or cousins?