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Pornography in India is illegal and attracts several penal provisions. The law also states that distributing and publishing pornography is illegal. As per the act accessing pornography is not mentioned to be illegal. Pornographic films in India are referred to as Blue Films and are available virtually anywhere; especially in areas where pirated material is already being sold^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Softcore Pornography

Top Soft Porn Actresses include Abhilasha,Pratibha, Shakeela and Reshma. However others like Devika,Umamaheshwari etc are also famous.

[edit] Hardcore Pornography

Hardcore Pornography is banned in India, however, some hardcore Indian porn is available illegally in Indian markets.

There are also reports of National Liberation Front of Tripura NLFT, rebel group in tripura making and selling pornographic movies to raise funds.^[1][2] A Kannada porno video titled "Mysuru Mallige" meaning 'Mysore Jasmine' shot into fame featuring two engineering students from the Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan. The video itself was shot in a hotel room in Mysore and thus the name. Another video from young kids of DPS, Delhi was a popular MMS clip. Though these videos and many such videos were not made to be marketed, their popularity still is unrivaled, even in the mainstream film industry. Mysuru Mallige is probably the most popular Kannada pornographic video of recent times. The person who took this video claims that he took it for personal use, and the video was smuggled out of his possession by his friends.

[edit] Online pornography

The Information Technology Act, Chapter XI Paragraph 67, the Government of India clearly considers online pornography as a punishable offense. The Indian Penal Code, 1860 section 293 also specifies, in clear terms, the law against Sale etc. of obscene objects to minors.

Chapter XI

"67. Publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form. - Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeal to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees."

In Tamilnadu ,Dr Prakash was arrested in December 2001 on charges of taking obscene photos of his women patients through hidden cameras and uploaded them on the World Wide Web site, with the help of his US-based brother^[3].

[edit] Recent Developments

Pornography was a verbal taboo in India even as late as in 2006^{[citation needed]} The circulation of a home-made mobile video, involving two minors from the Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram branch and hence infamously dubbed the "DPS dhamaka," brought issues involving pornography and its effects on minors to the limelight. The CEO of the Indian subsidiary of eBay was charged with various criminal offenses for allowing the trading of a CD containing these clips on the website ^[4].

[edit] Cultural Context

Traditional Indian culture emphasizes early, arranged marriages. Girls traditionally entered arranged marriages even before puberty, although following the formal ceremony they might return to live with their parents a few more years before joining their husbands' households. Dating based on mutual attraction is still uncommon except to a limited extent among an emancipated minority of the urban middle classes. Otherwise unmarried girls are strongly protected by parents, brothers, and society in general. Due to all these barriers to romance and sex before marriage, premarital and extramarital sexual opportunities occur differently from what has become the norm in the West and Indian pornography reflects this.

A large proportion of sex outside monogamous marriage takes place within the confines of the extended family, sometimes even the nuclear family. Unmarried men have freer access to women who are related -- at least through marriage -- than to unrelated women. In Western culture it is often said that, "When you marry your beloved, you marry his or her whole family."[1]. In India this can be true to an even greater extent in that emotional and even sexual intimacy within the extended family but beyond the husband-wife pair isn't exactly condoned, but is much less vigorously condemned than in the West.[2] Common scenarios involve close relationshipos between brothers and sisters, sons and mothers or mother's sisters, but especially between an older brother's wife (bhabhi) and an unmarried younger brother. ^[5]

[edit] See also

• Internet censorship in India
• Sex in Indian entertainment
• History of sex in India
• Savita Bhabhi

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• India Code Legislative Department