Hey guys,

As many of you may know that Indian ISP reliance jio has just blocked porn websites. But in my view it's wrong porn must be legalise in India.

India needs porn. Here's are 4 reasons -

1. Source of curiosity: Discussing sex in India is taboo. Even the mere mention of the word makes people hide in shame and run away with full energy. Parents, who ideally, should have sensitive conversations with their children over sex, hardly engage. Therefore, in such a conservative cultural scenario, porn serves as the most important source of information for teenagers about sex and its various intricacies. Satisfying teenagers' curiosity about sex is important and therefore providing sex education is critical. But our culturist government is opposed even to sex education, as was made clear last year by Union minister Harshvardhan.

2. Exploring sexuality and fantasies: In India, sex is mostly considered a tool for procreating. Discussions about exploring sex in different ways and the fantasies over it are extremely rare. During a recent hangout with friends, I told them that I am planning to buy a sex toy for self pleasure. Their response was that they had never heard a guy using a sex toy for personal use. Pornography allows exploring one's own sexuality and developing fantasies for experimentation with your partner. Be it shower sex, using chocolate sauce and masturbator, or having sex inside a car, porn exposes you to every possible fantasy.

3. Porn promotes equal rights for women and men: Watching porn and the right to pleasure have always been assumed to be male things. India's patriarchal society believes that women just have the duty of being penetrated and cannot demand pleasure. Women who demand or even talk about sexual pleasure are termed sluts and prostitutes. In my opinion, porn is the only place (though it's only a movie) where men and women put in equal efforts to give pleasure to each other, and it is not a one way affair. Many couple watch porn together for sexual stimulation and therefore, watching porn together goes a long way in making them realise that pleasure is important for both - not just the man.

4. Banning porn doesn't reduce crime:In 2013, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on porn, citing it as a major cause for crimes against women, which is believed to be the reasoning behind banning porn by the government. However, there is ample evidence that banning porn doesn't lower crime rates. "The more repressed a society is, the more the acts of sexual violence. If you see examples of Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - these are places (where) sexuality is not out in the open and acts of sexual violence are high. Furthermore, research studies in the Czech Republic, Denmark and Japan established that with increasing availability of pornography there was a significant decrease in the number of sex offences.

So why the in the world would you want to ban porn?