Erotica vs. Porn and India

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Recently Shilpa Shetty Kundra, the lady who won the fifth season of the United Kingdom's "Celebrity Big Brother", has been in news for wrong reasons. Her husband was arrested for selling Porn movies. Her take ...he is innocent, it was erotica, not porn. His lawyer's take...it does not qualify as Porn because intercourse is not shown. My take... Basically, I am very broad minded. I don't give a damn about these things WHEN ADULTS DO IT WILLINGLY without coercion, blackmail, or necessity, etc. But India has several issues. We have been invaded a couple of times. That has made our people inclined to develop cultures and customs to safeguard our girls. So that more girls do not step out of those boundaries, we look down upon girls who do dare to move out. Added to this problem is uneducated or limited educated class that is born into uneducated families. They have adopted the inhibitive customs and culture of the rich of the past. Now, the rich have moved forward, they are getting into live in relationships, something that would be looked down upon in my neighborhood even today. But the poor are confused. The ways or rich, i.e., the way the rich dress, the way the rich behave, hugging, holding hands, etc., titillate their senses because they are not accustomed to such behavior. They have deliberately been kept poor for getting cheap labor for next generations. Caste system is part of this shrewdness. Given such a situation, for them erotica is equal to porn. The poor now have smart phones thanks to affordability as old models become cheaper. So they can access these videos. Kids too will have access to it all since they are now studying on net. When a child learns of sex matters. I saw my aunt having sex when I was about seven or so because she couldn't be bothered to put a latch in her room during day time. I feel a sense of repulsion towards her and sex in general. That and a couple of pedophiles in my life have kinda.. but I won't judge as long as sex is a private affair. So .. I am for punishing the guy. No erotica, no porn is right. To me they both are same because they lay foundation to the same type of crimes. Now comes the question, can it be controlled? No. The police force would have to spend entire time browsing for porn and erotica stuff on web. That is worse than Bitcoin mining in so far as pollution is concerned. Classification too is contentious. Will it lead to increase in crimes like rapes, gang rapes, human trafficking etc? Yes. Will it lead to more psychiatric cases among girls? Yes. Will it increase more female infanticides? Yes. What do you think? Should erotica be allowed just because no intercourse is shown? Isn't that just a shrewd lawyer's way of differentiating between erotica and porn? Is there a way to stop such things? Should they be stopped? Is India a special case...here hugging is rare, kissing invisible.