A very good article written by an Indonesian I think, on the publication of Playboy in Indonesia::
http://www.laksamana.net/read.php?gid=186
And this is what Tiara Lestari, the first Indonesian model to ever appear on Playboy's cover, thought::
http://tiaralestari.blogspot.com/2006/01/playboy-in-indonesia.html
This is hypocrisy at its best, my country that is. So what if Playboy manage to publish their Indonesian version? With porn vcds sold here and there, and Internet invading our youngsters freely, a Playboy mag which will feature no nudity, as they (Playboy) have promised, pales in comparison. Why spend money buying a Playboy mag which is probably only slightly better than Popular mag? So you see, the dangers of pornography is definitely not coming from the toothless Playboy. It is coming from the illegal porn vcds sellers who the authorithy decide to ignore. And it is coming from the Internet which we can do nothing about. And the TV and MTV. So what can we do to stop them distributing this poison? Nothing!
The only thing we can do is to teach the youngsters to be responsible with their life. By blaming all the mags and TVs and the people wearing sexy dresses and kissing in public, you are just teaching the youngsters to play the blame game all their life.
For getting into drugs..
They will blame the bad school environment and bad companies.
They will blame the government too, for not guarding against drug dealers.
They wil blame their parents for not showering them with love.
For getting into free sex and pregnancy and HIV..
They will blame the media and internet.
They will blame their lovers for demanding it.
They will blame their lovers for tempting them into it.
They will blame the condoms factory workers for being careless. Yes 1 out of 6 condoms is hole-y.
Heck they will blame God for giving them sexual desire.
We are living in a wild wild world where you gotta be responsible with your decisions. What's the point of coming up with all those stupid pornography laws? Childish.
When I was a kid, the only thing we had was the unwritten rule that during the fasting month, you should not eat in front of the fasting people. I thought it was strange as fasting is about setting yourself apart and it has nothing to do with what anybody else is doing, as long as they are not forcing you into eating something.
But I accepted that as a gesture of being considerate. In fact I would teach my kids to do that. I even sincerely apologise to my fellow Muslim friends when I have to eat in front of them.
But now.. Now we have a pornography law about to be put into effect. Among the proposed regulation were the disallowing of kissing in public and showing sensual part of your body in public. I hope by public they don't mean a place, any place, where there are lots of strangers. Coz that won't do for swimming pool.
So we are about to create a society where everybody will behave like saints in public while waiting anxiously for the time to return home for their daily dose of 'sin'. Where do you think all these teenagers lost their virginity? In the middle of the streets? And when the kids talk about porn, do you think they are talking about anything they could see and enjoy in public?
This law will only encourage people to always have two faces; The face of saint when they are socializing in public and the face of devil when they are all alone. And when things go wrong, what will they do? They will blame the law to be not strict enough in protecting them from the temptation.
http://www.laksamana.net/read.php?gid=186
And this is what Tiara Lestari, the first Indonesian model to ever appear on Playboy's cover, thought::
http://tiaralestari.blogspot.com/2006/01/playboy-in-indonesia.html
This is hypocrisy at its best, my country that is. So what if Playboy manage to publish their Indonesian version? With porn vcds sold here and there, and Internet invading our youngsters freely, a Playboy mag which will feature no nudity, as they (Playboy) have promised, pales in comparison. Why spend money buying a Playboy mag which is probably only slightly better than Popular mag? So you see, the dangers of pornography is definitely not coming from the toothless Playboy. It is coming from the illegal porn vcds sellers who the authorithy decide to ignore. And it is coming from the Internet which we can do nothing about. And the TV and MTV. So what can we do to stop them distributing this poison? Nothing!
The only thing we can do is to teach the youngsters to be responsible with their life. By blaming all the mags and TVs and the people wearing sexy dresses and kissing in public, you are just teaching the youngsters to play the blame game all their life.
For getting into drugs..
They will blame the bad school environment and bad companies.
They will blame the government too, for not guarding against drug dealers.
They wil blame their parents for not showering them with love.
For getting into free sex and pregnancy and HIV..
They will blame the media and internet.
They will blame their lovers for demanding it.
They will blame their lovers for tempting them into it.
They will blame the condoms factory workers for being careless. Yes 1 out of 6 condoms is hole-y.
Heck they will blame God for giving them sexual desire.
We are living in a wild wild world where you gotta be responsible with your decisions. What's the point of coming up with all those stupid pornography laws? Childish.
When I was a kid, the only thing we had was the unwritten rule that during the fasting month, you should not eat in front of the fasting people. I thought it was strange as fasting is about setting yourself apart and it has nothing to do with what anybody else is doing, as long as they are not forcing you into eating something.
But I accepted that as a gesture of being considerate. In fact I would teach my kids to do that. I even sincerely apologise to my fellow Muslim friends when I have to eat in front of them.
But now.. Now we have a pornography law about to be put into effect. Among the proposed regulation were the disallowing of kissing in public and showing sensual part of your body in public. I hope by public they don't mean a place, any place, where there are lots of strangers. Coz that won't do for swimming pool.
So we are about to create a society where everybody will behave like saints in public while waiting anxiously for the time to return home for their daily dose of 'sin'. Where do you think all these teenagers lost their virginity? In the middle of the streets? And when the kids talk about porn, do you think they are talking about anything they could see and enjoy in public?
This law will only encourage people to always have two faces; The face of saint when they are socializing in public and the face of devil when they are all alone. And when things go wrong, what will they do? They will blame the law to be not strict enough in protecting them from the temptation.
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