Why would ANYONE imagine that companies would willingly put themselves in a ghetto? They know that the reason to encourage use of the .xxx TLD is to facilitate content filtering. They know that when their sites are blocked that's potential revenue lost, and if companies in the "erotica-industry" are good at anything it's making sure they make money.
India to block .XXX top-level domain
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#12hmm, They are keep blocking everything, still India's population is raising higher than any other country in this world.
No. Muslim countries have higher birth rate than India.
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#13What's funny is for a country that frowns upon as little as kissing in movies, India has a pretty big underground porn market.
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#14You know it's fascinating how prudish a culture seems to be ties in to the levels and statistics of sexual abuse. In india words like sexual expression are a sin and a culture has emerged based on the obsession that sex is dirty. Which is centered around the glory of men and the purity of misogyny. At the same time India by some statistics ( http://www.icrw.org/publications/international-men-and-gende... ) has the hi…
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Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain
#15You know it's fascinating how prudish a culture seems to be ties in to the levels and statistics of sexual abuse. In india words like sexual expression are a sin and a culture has emerged based on the obsession that sex is dirty. Which is centered around the glory of men and the purity of misogyny. At the same time India by some statistics ( http://www.icrw.org/publications/international-men-and-gende... ) has the hi…
I think it must be more complex and subtle than that. Isn't India the home of the Kama Sutra? Like, if any country can claim to be the world experts on sex, it's India, they even beat the Dutch.
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#17We already have a system for classifying pages as having age-sensitive content - ICRA. Let's use that rather than shoving everything under a non-specific .xxx domain.
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#18hmm, They are keep blocking everything, still India's population is raising higher than any other country in this world.
I don't see why i got down voted. I am an Indian myself. Population is/going to be a biggest problem in India. This a truth.
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#19You know it's fascinating how prudish a culture seems to be ties in to the levels and statistics of sexual abuse. In india words like sexual expression are a sin and a culture has emerged based on the obsession that sex is dirty. Which is centered around the glory of men and the purity of misogyny. At the same time India by some statistics ( http://www.icrw.org/publications/international-men-and-gende... ) has the hi…
I think it must be more complex and subtle than that. Isn't India the home of the Kama Sutra? Like, if any country can claim to be the world experts on sex, it's India, they even beat the Dutch.
I think the issue is this: India has been historically openminded about sex, before the British rule. The current situation, i.e., a social taboo to even talk about sex are remnants of the British rule in India: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sex_in_India#Colonia...
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#20Google trends for sex and porn: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2Cporn&ctab=0&geo... Indians are, unsurprisingly, very much into it.