The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to make a plan to block websites showing child pornography and sought its response to a plea to ban viewing of porn at public places. The SC has also ordered additional solicitor general Pinky Anand to spell out the government stand on whether people should be barred from watching porn in public. On adult pornography, the top court said the Centre has to draw a distinct line between art and obscenity.

Anand said it was not possible for the government to define pornography. “Any sort of clampdown could lead to invasion of privacy. It is difficult to ban pornographic websites as they do not fall under any country’s jurisdiction,” she told the bench, submitting a procedure was being worked out to block child pornography.

The bench appeared to differ from Anand and said the government has to lay down parameters regarding pornography.

Did You Know???

• “MILF” is the most frequently searched porn term on the Internet.
• The biggest porn company in the entire world is in Canada.
• At ANY SECOND of the day there are somewhere around 30 million people watching porn.
• The porn industry makes more money than The National Football League, The National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball combined.
• In North Korea, the punishment for viewing porn is death.
• The United States is the top producer of pornographic dvds and web material; the second largest is Germany.
• India has become world’s third most porn watching nation after America and England.
• Among the Indian visitors to pornography sites, 30% are women.
• People from the age group of 16 to 45 are watching porn in India, which includes a large number of students and professionals in their early career stage.
• In 2015, “lesbian” was the most searched term on the site.
• PornHub received 21.2 billion visits in 2015 – 40,000 visits every minute or 2.4 million per hour.