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07/05/2007: "Islamic groups suppress pornography"

The Iraqi Aid Association (IAA), a Baghdad-based non-governmental organisation working with displacement, children and youth issues, says dozens of Iraqis have been killed after using the internet to access erotic sites.

Fatah Ahmed, spokesperson for the IAA, said: "We have received information from many sources that militants are operating spies inside internet cafes just to find out who is browsing sites they have deemed offensive to Islam."

Ahmed said most of the killings or abductions happen directly after the victims leave the internet cafes.

[ Perversity is only encouraged because we believe it is "freedom." Saner minds prevail in Iraq. If they removed all the porn tomorrow, healthy people would be none the poorer. ]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C93F2AF9-348F-4100-8193-C176A2DDEE20.htm

Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world."

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/13/iran.porn.ap/

As she
foretold, pornography did breach the dike that separated a marginal,
adult, private pursuit from the mainstream public arena. The whole
world, post-Internet, did become pornographized. Young men and women are
indeed being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and
expectations are, by pornographic training—and this is having a huge
effect on how they interact.

But the effect is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary:
The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in
relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as
“porn-worthy.” Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young
women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get,
let alone hold, their attention.

Here is what young women tell me on college campuses when the subject
comes up: They can’t compete, and they know it. For how can a real
woman—with pores and her own breasts and even sexual needs of her own
(let alone with speech that goes beyond “More, more, you big
stud!&#8221—possibly compete with a cybervision of perfection, downloadable
and extinguishable at will, who comes, so to speak, utterly submissive
and tailored to the consumer’s least specification?

http://www.oneangrygirl.net/ThePornMyth.html