We are fully on the same page with the call by the House of Representatives on the need to block all porn sites because of the damage porn is wreaking on the fabric of our society.
Last week, the House directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the industry regulator, to shut down porn hosting websites and severely sanction providers if they refuse to comply. This resolution was sequel to a motion brought by Dalhatu Tafoki (APC, Faskari, Kankara/Sabuwa Federal Constituency, Katsina), who argued that porn is a danger to our society.
Porn brings sexual intimacy – an act culturally designed to be consummated behind closed doors – to the public eye. It is accessible to all, including minors. The dehumanisation involved in porn is such that every barrier of indecency has been broken, thus reducing human beings, especially women, to creatures less respectable than animals which usually live according to the laws of nature.
Porn encourages the gullible to experiment with sexual practices which damage the real-life intimacy that promotes lifelong bonds between couples. It is responsible for the spread of unnatural practices such gay and “transgender” lifestyles, loss of interest in the marriage institution and weakening of family bonds which negatively impact society.
It leads to addiction and development of compulsive behaviours which disrupt relationships and personal lives. Addiction can deteriorate to mental disorders, depression and lower self-esteem, especially among the youth. It promotes harmful conceptions and undermines healthy relationships and sexual ethics.
Porn is one of the hazardous effects of perverted Western “civilisation” which we in this part of the world embraced without government taking steps to protect the people. Many countries in Asia are very proactive in controlling porn sites and in so doing, have succeeded in preserving the sanctity of their cultures and traditional lifestyles.
These include mostly Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Indonesia and others. Also, China, North Korea and Singapore are off-limits to the porn pandemic. Recently, a high court in Uttarakhand, India, ordered the Ministry of Electronic and IT to block 827 porn hosting websites.
We call for similar measures to be taken to protect our people. We strongly debunk the argument that banning porn sites is akin to violating the “freedom of speech” of citizens or associating porn site blockage to breaching of “freedom of the press” as insinuated in some quarters. There is absolutely no association between porn and the mass media or even social media.
We must be prudent and decide what foreign influence to adopt and which to reject, for the good of our society. Porn is a virus that has destroyed the morality of the Western societies. It is threatening to damage ours.
Government has a duty to protect our people!
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