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Why would they want to ban it? If anything it would result in an increase to population.

Maybe the regular rapes have been partly attributed to access to pornography ?

It was not long time ago that Sweden attributed violence in society to TV and movies, and it's only in current enlighten days that the old censorship is now finally removed. A person doesn't go and murder, rape or steal just because they happened to see a movie that displays actors doing those things.

I'm not saying there's an actual logical relationship nor that I believe porn causes violence but governments might end up believing so. I strongly think porn, even inevitable, especially in teens, is amazingly detrimental. It might not be a reason for someone to force someone else (I never thought of shooting someone after playing Doom), but it will twist the notion of intimate relationships.

During the 90s, people argued that teens watching movies like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre would get a twisted notion of what normal was. The detrimental effect on teens was seen as such large that they banned the cartoon darkwin duck for TV, and blamed TV violence for the increase in violent crime amongst youths.

Those claims has since proven at best to be speculative, at worse outright media fabrication. Studies have shown that even very young kids can distinguish that what happens on a movie is not real, and that the social rules that gets shown on a movie does not exist in real life. Teens and adults has a more mature brain and longer life experience that if there was an effect, movies would have destroyed them long before.

I agree but I didn't indulged the 'ban' logic. I'm just saying it might be one of the reason invoked for the Indian government decision.

India already has the world's second largest population, and they should be passing China soon.

things has changed:

"In actuality, India’s TFR is only 2.5—and falling steadily. This figure barely exceeds that of the United States. In 2011, the US fertility rate was estimated at 2.1, essentially the replacement level; a more recent study now pegs it at 1.93. Still, from a global perspective, India and the US fall in the same general fertility category

Source: http://www.geocurrents.info/population-geography/indias-plum...

also "How Electricity and TV Defused the ‘Population Bomb’" :

http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/michael-shellenb...

May be because there is a 69.37% increase in the Indian American population since 2000's? ;) Just saying!

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