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by AlexeyBrin·9y ago·view on hn ↗
Think about it, watching porn is a relatively new phenomenon in remote Indian villages. Do you really think this could have contributed in any way to create a culture of gang rape and of woman shaming ?

Banning (or blaming) porn just shifts the focus from the real problem here.

> Is our porn a reflection of our culture, or are we reflections of our porn?

Neither.

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Internet porn might be new there, but porn/erotica certainly not. Just like Victorian erotica these villagers too will have had at least three possibility to access pornographic materials.

That's actually part of the reason why western women get harassed frequently in India, which is not really a new thing (and buy to neglect that Indian women get harassed a lot) - the men have primarily access to western porn and that's often the only white women they've seen, so if they encounter a real westerner they think she'll behave like those in the magazine's/movies/...

That's certainly true. It is a phenomenon that predates pornography, though from the news coverage I'm given to understand it happens more now? Or perhaps it's just shining light onto a long standing problem. I don't know enough about the culture to really say, just trying to understand it.