Annulling the Anti-Pornography Law is Horrendous to Women and Girls

This is a response to the Women's Movements In Uganda who wrote an Article in the Daily Monitor  Monday 20 September 2021  "Annulling of the Anti-Pornography Law gives hope" by Tina Musuya, Joy Asasira, Grace Namataka, Elizabeth Kemigisha, Marie Lwanga and Primah Kwagala.

In Alvin Winford  (2020),  Protecting Africa Against the Public Health Harms of Pornography. ANPPCAN, Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation (CESE) Africa, the Analysis of the 50 most popular pornographic videos found that 49% contained verbal aggression against women and 88% of scenes contained physical violence. Internet pornography is shown to normalize the notion that women are sex objects among both adolescent boys and girls. Among college aged men, the frequency of exposure to pornography, magazines, and reality TV programs that objectify women there were, the more objectified views of women and stronger attitudes supportive of violence against women.

In  Arina O. Grossu & Sean Maguire (2017), The Link Between Pornography, Sex Trafficking, and Abortion. Issue Analysis, Family Research Council, A late 2015 study by Wright, Tokunaga, and Kraus, One-third of rapists confessed that they watched pornography immediately before committing their crime.

Moreso in   Arina, etc (2017), The pornography industry generates over $97 billion every year worldwide. when an individual supports the pornography industry through porn use, this increases the likelihood that this same individual will seek out the prostitution industry, and vice versa. This creates an increased demand for both pornographic materials and women in prostitution or sex trafficking. The pornography and prostitution industries continue to exist symbiotically and grow each other’s revenues. Those who are actors in pornographic material are often women who have been sex trafficked and sometimes child sex slaves, some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Victims of sex trafficking are subjected to physical mistreatment, and are often forced to recreate pornographic scenes.   Sex traffickers often use pornography to “groom” the victims of sex trafficking for the practices in which they are expected to engage. Women and children are shown pornography by their traffickers to train before they are sold for sex. The elements of sexual exploitation which is often paraded as “sex work” include: “routine verbal degradation; threat of physical assault and a wide array of physical injury; extreme risk of sexual assault and rape; being groped, pinched, licked, bitten and breathed upon by people who pay to use you; serial utilization of one’s orifices as a receptacle for male genitalia and other objects; likely acquisition of drug/alcohol addiction; likely acquisition of post-traumatic stress disorder; likely acquisition of any number of (potentially incurable) STDs; and possible premature death as the result of homicide, Forced  Abortions.

Given the massive, deleterious and social effects of pornography on Women and Girls, as a  father of three Beautiful Daughters, I call upon the Genuine women of Uganda to oppose this evil agenda

#BringBackAntiPornAct

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