MEDIA
AND PORNOGRAPHY
Write: Dr. Eudoro Terrones Negrete (*)
BILL
Congressman Parliamentary Alliance, Ricardo Belmont, presented the draft law No. 3621-2009 which aims to establish criminal penalties of deprivation of freedom for directors, editors, managers or persons responsible for the dissemination or publication of images, visual or written material containing pornographic or obscene.
The project had the support of congressmen and Karina Beteta Aldo Estrada (UPP), Juan Carlos Eguren and Raul Castro (A), Freddy Otárola (PNP), Wilder Calderón (APRA), Rosario Sasieta (AP) and Victor Mayorga (BP).
OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE AND DD.HH. In the opinion of the substitute bill (Lima, 14 June 2010) approved by the Commission of Justice and that manifests DD.HH. "In our country, the media and newspaper industry are doing to pursue a far cry from the ethics, morals and good customs, that every day is observed in both newsstand and in different episodes of the television airwaves where our children and teenagers are bombarded with messages libidinous with publications showing naked women, sex scenes, with two-way profanity, television programs driven by characters of dubious reputation, all of which threatens the mental and emotional health of our children and adolescents and undermine the values \u200b\u200bof family. "
The substitute bill amends articles 40 and 43 of Law N º 28278 - Radio and Television Act, as follows: "Article 40 .- Family Schedule: The schedule that is transmitted in the family schedule is not allowed violent content, obscene, cruelty, or are related to sexual behavior or otherwise, any whatever its nature or the way they are presented, which may affect the values \u200b\u200binherent in the family, children and adolescents. This time is between 06:00 and 22:00 hours. Article 43 .- Prohibition of pornography. Broadcasting services may not broadcast programs with pornographic or sexually explicit content of any kind or that promote commercial sex in all its forms. "
congressmen signed the opinion Juvenal Silva Diaz (President), Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli, Edgar Núñez Román, Jorge Flores Torres, José León Luna Gálvez, José Maluco Culqui and Susana Vilches Achata.
REVIEWS FOR RBC Canal 11 TV is widespread opinion in favor of the project and come from religious leaders, educators, lawyers and journalists and the general public.
Respondents consider public need progressively eradicate this social problem and concur in stating that there is a lack of moral conscience in some television programs, directors and media owners who confuse free enterprise with a free press, which are more concerned with increasing rating of readership, audience and viewers and make higher profits, forgetting the duties of educating and culturizar to your target audience.
authorities also express responsible for ensuring the moral health of the people are not fulfilling their duties to curb pornography and its media are being complicit silence of the great moral damage caused to children and young people mainly.
opinion against About the project were against journalists, politicians, personalities of various sectors of government, the National Society of Radio and Television, the Peruvian Press Council (CPP), Institute Press and Society (IPYS), the Ombudsman, the Minister of Justice and President Alan García Pérez.
President Alan Garcia recalled that the crimes under the draft common decency and obscenity, are punishable under the Penal Code and its repetition is unnecessary, since "Repeat and duplicate that could be misinterpreted as you want to restrict the freedom. "
WHAT IS PORNOGRAPHY? Pornography is an ambiguous term and difficult to define, includes photographs, text, cartoons, videos, movies, etc., Which show strong countercultural sexual activities (defilement, incest, rape, bestiality and flagellation) or sexual acts for to produce masturbation and sexual arousal of the receiver and are disseminated by various media.
The word pornography comes from the Greek "pornographer" (porne "prostitute" and grafein, "write" or "description".
The
Royal English Academy defines pornography as "obscene
character of literary or art, "writings, photographs, etc., with intent to arouse sexual desire." The work
Ethics and the Media, Blázquez Niceto defines pornography as the representation of persons, acts, things and symbols that is aims to provoke the sexual drive for your satisfaction.
For the United States Supreme Court "obscenity" is determined by the "patently offensive representations or descriptions of sexual acts ..." or "lascivious exhibition of sexual organs" in particular.
Webster's Dictionary says that obscenity is offensive to good taste (eg, lewdness and indecency), certifying pornography and obscenity. And "obscene" is "unpleasant to the senses" and "abhorrent to morality and virtue, inflammatory or intended to arouse lust, depravity and indecency."
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM "Why only falsehood and error, degradation and pornography should be entitled to be proposed and, unfortunately, often even imposed a destructive propaganda disseminated through the media, the legal tolerance for fear of the good and the impudence of the wicked? "asked Pope Paul VI, in post-synodal exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi.
not without reason to Lenin when he said "if you want to destroy a nation, destroy their morale and this will fall into your lap like a ripe apple."
The Second National Symposium on Multidisciplinary Human Sexuality, held in Argentina
be concluded Pornography distorts the current human sexuality, expressed in violent ways, either expressed or implied, and there's a power relationship
and bonded
of women to men or, occasionally, vice versa.
In the world of laws prohibiting and punishing the dissemination or publication of material, pornographic images and videos, among others, for the following reasons: You can become an addictive habit detrimental to the individual, it is degrading to women, is used commercially exploits the libido and eroticized the brain.
pornography also induces people indiscriminately made to objectify the opposite sex distorts the sexual act as the ultimate expression of love, lustful fantasies exploits transgressing ethical values, is offensive to decency, causes immoral behavior in society and undermines the dignity of individuals to exploit the sadism, sadomasochism, bestiality and necrophilia (sexual obsession with dead bodies).
Pornography makes women and children victims of lust, destroys marriages and undermines public safety by encouraging rape, incest and murder.
"business pornography violates the privacy rights of the human body, even if he appears in the photos or videos authorized recording and dissemination of images does not lessen the violation of privacy in the body because it deprives them of their dignity and make it trivializes the subject of a business. That is prostitution, sexual activity of the body, sold or purchased. The publication ceases to be a treatise on prostitution and is seen as an act of sale of the body, ie active prostitution "(Javier Dario Restrepo / Practice Ethics /
http://www.fnpi.org/consultorio-etico/ office /? tx_wecdiscussion% 5Bsingle% 5D = 31160 )
Internet Autopornografía
With Information Technology and communication are the very children who are photographed or recorded with mobile phones, digital cameras or webcams, hang it up on Youtube and massively distributed, even to be sold in schools and higher education.
There are currently averaging more than 5 million web portals that sell, promote or child pornographers. 40% of these pages are free and easily accessible. They use children and adolescents as a mere commodity, are robbed of all illusion and hope, they are violated. Being indifferent to it makes us part of the problem (http://www.forosperu.net/showthread.php?t=227)
Fortunately something is done about it. Peruvian Net against Child Pornography has been conducting the campaign "Free Internet Child Pornography" in order to address this problem in the Internet, alert the user (children, youth and adults), prevent crime and combat networks of pedophiles and pedophiles.
GENRES PORNOGRAPHIC They identified three types of pornographic genres:
Softcore. In this genre the sex scenes are not shown explicitly, does not include close-ups of male or female genitals in detail and shows no insights and relationships.
Mediumcore. Or conventional pornography, is to teach the entire body more or less provocative positions, as in Playboy or Penthouse magazines. Hardcore
. Gender is extreme, here is explicitly sexual intercourse, whether vaginal, anal or oral appliances or any other utensils. This type of pornography is divided according to sexual orientation: heterosexual, homosexual (male or female), bisexual, transsexual
(men turned into women through the use of hormones and use of clothing) and
zoophilia (sex with animals .)
CODE OF ETHICS AND MORAL HEALTH
In Peru and in several countries of the world there are codes of ethics that prohibit journalists and media advocacy, promotion and dissemination of pornographic or obscene material. Include the following:
"8. No use in your work sensationalism, obscenity or blackmail. Fewer still uses racial criteria, ideological or gender does not lead to confusion or distorts the views, distort or maliciously extracting them from their context "(Charter of Professional Ethics of the National Association of Journalists of Peru).
"Art.15 º. The journalist should refrain from encouraging vices, crime and all morbid manifestations of society "(Code of ethics of the Federation of Journalists of Peru).
"The journalist bausatino is prohibited from: a) engaging in tabloid journalism through the exploitation of visual sensations, chronic red, pornography or inappropriate images, for the sole purpose of increasing profits or maintain the rating of a, b) generate and promote unhealthy curiosity in the audience "(Journalist Code of Ethics Bausatino-Professional School of Journalism at the University Bausate and Jaime Meza).
"The journalist will help to safeguard mental health and the collective moral, rejecting pornography, the vulgarity, violence and other degrading acts in the tabloid media "(Code of ethics of the Association of Journalists of the Dominican Republic).
"Journalists can not: a. - Write or publish immorality and obscenity" (Press Code of Jamaica).
"The following points should be avoided in any form of publication: a. - immorality, obscenity. (Code of ethics of the press in Pakistan).
"The public of the press avoided any reference to privacy of an individual. Is incompatible with the function of the press seeking to satisfy public curiosity, rather than serving the public interest. (Code of Ethics of the Austrian press.)
"Every journalist should avoid in their publications immorality, obscenity and pornography being stricter in those publications that are directed at children and youth" (Code of Professional Ethics of English journalist).
SELF-REGULATION AND MORE
Faced with the problem of pornography is the proponents of self-regulation of the media, with true respect for individual freedoms and human rights.
But we also believe it is necessary the implementation of codes of journalistic ethics, the Penal Code, the Broadcasting Act No. 28278, and all national and international laws that protect and protect the moral health of children, adolescents and youth mainly.
It is time that the newspaper union representatives, media, ombudsmen, politicians, ministers and judges more aware moral and professional, to assume its social responsibility commitment to service to education and culture of the people and will to solve their country's problems.
Then we will have a better country in which they do not allow the free movement and dissemination of pornographic or obscene material in hours not allowed for our children. Defender
to children of those who misuse and abuse of media power is to defend the nation's future.
(*) Collegiate Journalist, professor of Journalistic Ethics and Academic Coordinator of the Professional School of Journalism / University Bausate and Jaime Meza.
