AFTER 53 years of existing as an independent nation, it is most pathetic to see many of our youth using precarious and unorthodox means to make money in life.
THE youth see such means as the quickest way of freeing themselves from the throes of poverty, and hence are prepared to go every mile, even if it means killing human beings, to meet their objective — richness and wealth.
SOME of such methods are ‘Sakawa’ or internet fraud, blood money or ‘Sikadro’ among others. What has now cropped up is where Ghanaian youth engage in the production of pornographic movies, for sale within and outside the shores of Ghana.
IN Ghana where our culture frowns on pornography and any form of obscene acts, it is worrying that some youth are using such means to make money. Many of our young women have been hoodwinked by western cultures to the extent that they see nothing wrong exposing their breasts and panties in public. Instead, they see such practices as fashion, and have therefore accepted them as norms.
IT is evidently clear that pornography is now on the increase and has eaten into our social fabric. And this is taking the better part of our moral lives, particularly our youth who this nation’s future rests.
IN the Friday April 16, 2010, edition of Today, we carried a story on our front page with the headline ‘FRESH GHANA PORN IN MARKET’. In the said story the paper reported on Ghanaians who were producing pornography movies and selling them covertly in the country.
In that news item we reported that this fresh Ghana porn, entitled ‘Atongo and Madam’ shows highly sexually explicit adult performances by some young Ghanaian male and female youth. The story further revealed that the movie was brazenly released by Wakiki Entertainment, a Ghanaian movie production company, which was gradually carving a bad name for itself in the Ghanaian movie industry.
ACCORDING to the story, some traders who deal in the sale of Video CDs indicated that they sell the movie secretly to especially patrons in Accra. Indeed, the story revealed the extent to which our fight against pornography and other forms of social vices have failed.
WE at Today believe that so much attention has been given to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease (STDs) leaving out some of these social vices which are lately on the ascendancy.
TODAY is not by this suggesting that stakeholders in the HIV/AIDS campaign stop their campaigns, but it is important that we give attention to some of these negative practices that are affecting many of our youth. The advent of Ghanaian pornography movies really give cause for worry, and must therefore be addressed.
FOR those of us in the media, what we can do is to continue exposing such scourges in the society. But it is also important to state that whilst the media does that government must take necessary and pragmatic steps to deal with such problems.
you are only creating more demand. condoms should be cheaper look at the cost of durex, those cheap other ones always break. people will always have sex porn or no porn. by the way where can i get a copy?
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