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Dear Mr. Politician (who would very soon want my vote):<\/p>\nDear Mr. Politician (who would very soon want my vote):<\/p>\n
I’d like to implore you as a political representative and\/or leader, to introduce a legislation that protects young people from acts of bullying such as the recent surge in pornographic content that is being published over the Internet (on social networks and media sharing sites), most often without the consent of at least one of those engaged in the sexual acts.<\/p>\n
The young people, as long as they are legally privileged to consensual sex, have a right to engage in it without the threat of abuse. The culprits who in some cases, although I have to say I am not sure since I have not seen these videos or pictures, do not have permission by the young ladies whom they are seen with in these videos and in those cases do so with malicious intent, ought to be held accountable for their actions. Such intent can have complicated consequences which can follow the victims throughout their professional and personal lives and could even end in self harm or suicide.<\/p>\n
After all, in our conservative Christian society, we would tend to judge and point fingers at these victims, not offer refuge in whatever form or fashion, thus possibly leading those individuals to feel isolated and victimized. I stress that they are victims because they have every right to engage in sex without having to fear that they will be bullied for it by the general public.<\/p>\n
Making the individuals who maliciously share such content without permission of their sexual partner whom they knowingly place in a compromising position liable to legal action and or imprisonment, would greatly stem the tide of seemingly weekly video releases, and return some form of dignity to our young men and women who respect each other.<\/p>\n
The continued flow of pornographic content on the Internet, where once it gets there, it never leaves, can harm more than just individuals and families and individual future prospects, but also the dignity of Dominica, as a tranquil, respectable society with promising young people.<\/p>\n
Again, I ask that you take some steps to address this issue. It is a civil issue and does not generate as much public reaction, except the few who view or are affected by it, the way political issues do in this season, but I’d like to stress the salience of this issue and the need to return to civility.<\/p>\n
Please excuse any errors in my message, I wrote it on the move from my mobile phone in a moment of indignation.<\/p>\n
I thank you for your consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Mr. Politician (who would very soon want my vote): I’d like to implore you as a political representative and\/or leader, to introduce a legislation that protects young people from acts of bullying such as the recent surge in pornographic…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n