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Posted on 09/06/2002 2:17:28 PM PDT by prisoner6
PARIS (Reuters) - With television now showing 950 X-rated and violent films a month, two-thirds of the French say they want pornography banned from broadcast and cable channels, a poll by the audiovisual watchdog CSA said Friday.
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Some 76 percent of women responding backed a ban and even 51 percent of the men thought that French television was getting too hot, said the survey published in the daily Le Parisien.
A total of 64 percent of those questioned wanted both cable and non-cable channels to stop broadcasting X-rated films, which are often violent as well as sexually explicit, while 35 percent were against the ban altogether.
According to CSA, several cable channels plan to show more porn films in future to boost their audience ratings.
"Television today broadcasts 950 violent or pornographic films a month and we have to stop this drift," Christian Jacob, minister for family affairs, told Le Parisien.
"It would be simple to apply existing laws (to enforce a ban) and that would let us avoid having youths find images on their screens that are upsetting and poisonous at an age when they are developing their sexual identities," he said.
French media have recently reported a growing number of sex crimes among youths, especially gang rapes by teenage boys. Psychologists say the boys act out on teenage girls the sex abuse scenes they see in pornographic films.
Discussion of the issue has been growing in France, especially among women politicians shocked by the indifference or contempt the gang rapists show for their victims.
The CSA recommended in July banning X-rated films even from encrypted cable channels, saying it had found that many youths had access to films officially banned for anyone under 18 years old despite encryption.
France's new center-right government wants to review laws governing pornographic material on television, videos and Internet sites.
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Wow, he's running out of countries. |
Maybe Luxembourg...Do they have Kim Bassinger lookalikes there????
As long as they don't have to wash their underwear.
nawww, just your imagination.
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