Lifting the veil on sex sites

Editor's note:
I'm chasing the monsoon in Kerala; hence the break in updates. It has nothing got to do with the pasting Rahul Dravid and company got in the one-dayers against the West Indies!Meanwhile a friend has sent me an interesting opinion by an Iranian on lifting the veil on sex sites..
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Let there be light
Visitng 'Sex sites,' hardcore puritan nations come out unclothed

By Iqbal Latif


Ideological legislation restricts the freedom to access sites considered as bad for the faithul in countries like Iran, Saudi and Pakistan. This legislation of 'human attitudes‚ more often than not leads to exactly the opposite effect. Even Adam, everyone‚s biological father, slipped when he was enticed to eat the forbidden fruit by our common mother, Eve. It is coded in 'human genetics‚ that this intelligent being is designed to do more of what is prohibited. Google report produced ample evidence of that closet mentality. Google found that of the top 10 countries - searching for sex-related sites - six were Muslim, with Pakistan on the top.

The other Muslim countries are Egypt at number 2, Iran at 4, Morocco at 5, Saudi Arabia at 7 and Turkey at 8. Non-Muslim states are Vietnam at 3, India at 6, Philippines at 9 and Poland at 10. Google lifts the veil now and most of the hardcore puritan nations come out unclothed!! Sexual frustrations lead to choked sex sites on Google within most of the Islamic crescent! Even though homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom ranks No. 2 for searches for "gay sex," behind the Philippines.

A suppressed and sexually disoriented mind cannot produce too many research papers and new ideas. The top ten countries, where access to sex sites is the highest, with the exception of newly freed Poland, are amongst the bottom of the countries from where new scientific research emanates. Rather, in sciences, the top nine share only three Nobel prizes. Convoluted suppressed minds make no new inroads. How strange that it is the infidel, corrupt west where most of the advancements are being made, we, the puritans, sit on the bottom but in closets are the most corrupt. This dichotomy may result in raging anger within the 'nation of Islam‚ but it needs to be highlighted. A safe deduction can be made that sexual suppressions are inversely related to higher performance in sciences.

Too much suppression and guilt arising from the need of 'sexual emancipation' is not turning out to be so good for many of the Islamic countries. Rising libidos may be associated with rising tempers and violent attitudes. Toleration and leniency comes with emancipation and free mind. One of the main avenues of development, if not the only, is the freedom to meet and interact with the opposite gender; to restrict these meetings under the auspices of 'state‚ so as to control 'corruption‚ of mind is the worst offence against free man. Giving him his freedom to act the way he wants, as far as he hurts no other soul is his basic unalienable right. Much as we may disagree with the social ills of the bents of sexual impressions in this day and age, we all definitely need to defend the right of freedom; when one‚s freedom is suppressed, other avenues of suppression creep in conveniently.

However, the Google report clearly signifies the closet rebels we all are. Pakistan, Iran and Egypt top the lists of nations where most attempts are made to visit porn sites. Much as we consider this to be ungentlemanly conduct, let us agree that this rebellion of sorts, perhaps discovered inadvertently, points to the colourful nature of our shackled populations. What a great colourful revolution goes on inside the minds of Saudis, Iranian and Pakistanis when they visualise what is not available to them in a normal manner. The trends are very clearly established. It is nice to see a rebellious set of chained millions refusing to accept the legislation of morality by state. This is the indication of freedom and shape of things to come in this society. It also indicates that the concept of eradicating corruption on the face of this earth is so wrongly implanted.

Google lifted the veil this week on one of its best-kept secrets: which nations search for what. Who looks up democracy most avidly? Who types in "drugs" or "sex" most frequently? And consider the list of cities that most frequently look up "amour," the French word for love. Paris, allegedly a romantic haven, is absent from the top 10. The top three berths went to Rabat, Morocco; Algiers and Tunis.

Much as they burn their own country and demonstrated most vehemently, Pakistanis look up "despicable Danish cartoons" more avidly than anyone, according to Google. They also lead the rankings for "sex" - with their neighbor and nuclear rival India seldom far behind.

"Guns" is a word easy to associate with the United States. But the rising incidents of violent kidnappings and murders in Latin America has perhaps driven searchers to the Web for answers. Buenos Aires leads the cities index for "guns" searches, and Argentina as a whole outranks the United States, with Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru also in the top 10.

In closed culture, the lack of woman definitely leads to 'soaring libidos and higher sexual desires.‚ Wherever guardians and keepers of moral values reign supreme, sexual irritations multiply. Google, the world‚s most popular Internet search engine, has found in a survey that mostly Muslim states seek access to sex-related websites and Pakistan tops the list.

According to IHT report, the Google system can also be queried one country at a time, to determine, for example, how frequently people in Afghanistan , Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are looking up "democracy." The Bush administration is unlikely to be pleased by Google's reply for each of those countries: "Your terms - democracy - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."

The essence of the story perhaps is: 'Just do it,' don't feel shy and inhibited. The basic problem for our backwardness and featureless society is not only our nerve-racking tryst with sexual characteristics, but our two-facedness in not accepting our weaknesses openly. That is the bane of our race; it is for this that the closer we are, the more 'clandestinely evil‚ we get. Bringing it out in the open is the challenge these puritan societies like mine face. The real immorality and vice is about doing things in security and hiding one‚s own surroundings; being an evil in a closet but an innocent lamb outside. The Google report just amply demonstrates that.

If one loves beauty and has his 'own demons of perversion' then let him accept that side of his nature and be open about it; that is how his demons will escape him. Knowing your Achilles' heel will help make you convert your limitations to strength; in this world, is it not all about changing the character of your mischievous sprite to beatific? On the other hand, 'society‚ at large should give in to popular will and be more open and more permissive. A lenient and tolerant society will search 'Google sex substance‚ with pride and not with guilt; this 'comical‚ Google testimony evidently points out nations that legislate on morality create far more confused minds. Let the spirits fly, let the party begin. Let ... there ... be ... light!!

Appreciating beauty is very human, just love it... Providence loves those who love fellow beings; maybe this is the first new revised commandment of this modern era.