Blocking of porn websites

At the risk of being labelled a pervert, may I ask what is the harm if an adult watches porn in his own home?

KARACHI: This is with reference to your report of November 17 titled “PTA approved: Over 1,000 porn sites blocked in Pakistan”. Surely the government and its telecom regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, have better things to do than to block porn websites. Don’t we have other pressing issues to deal with? Also, will they blocks the hundreds of millions of websites that are found all over the internet? Will that not slow down the speed of browsing because the filters will slow down speeds? How is that going to help anyone? Why is this country and its government so prone to banning things? Haven’t we heard of programmes like Netsurf and Net Nanny?

And, at the risk of being labelled a pervert, may I ask what is the harm if an adult watches porn in the safety of his own home? How does that hurt anyone?

A reader

Published in The Express Tribune, November 19^th,  2011.