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Pornography came before cell phone and will remain after it. Let us ban books then, after all the most widely used medium of pronography among college students is paper material.Quote:
Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam
Do you really believe the so called "innocent" students dont like all these stuff or arent curious. Come out of the movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam
It did raise my eyebrows too.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbadri99
And I am still confused. :?
Yes, the 'innocents' are curious! That is the problem. When an epidemic breaks out remedial measures are taken on a war footing. Misbehaviour in college campus need not be dreaded as tsunamis or Katrinas. When a dam develops a leak judiciously all endeavours are taken to plug it not watch it take its course.
I do like Sandeep's views! What is being done today is like attacking the symptoms of the disease without curing the disease itself!! Cell phones and media are not the culprits! It is the mind of the youth that is the thing to be watched carefully. To pretend that youth of yesteryears were holier than those today is foolish! Hormones being the same, things would have all been just the same then, as now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandeep
But, as Sandeep had written elsewhere, what has gone wrong is nurturing and upbringing. Don't lets blame youth or technology. Parents are the ones that should bear the brunt of the blame. Too busy earning money, and jetsetting, the mothers and fathers of today have precious little time to spend in bringing up their children with morals and discipline. It is infintely easier for them to open up their wallets and shell out some money to the kids so that they would not make any more demans on the time and attention from the parents!!
Neither is there the moralistic upbringing from grandparents, with the increasingly nuclear families! What will the youngsters do? All their time is spent, not under the watchful eyes of concerned parents, but in the free indulgence of every whim and fancy that the hormones dictate or peer pressures force.
Such being the case, to merely impose external rules will be of little avail. Yes, personally I welcome the Anna University guidelines of dressing and cell phone usage. But that is just me! Internally, the students are not convinced that this move is in their best interests. Perhaps it is too late now...perhaps they will realize the need for this only when they have children who will grow up and engage in just the same activities!
hmm, ! I wonder how many young men and women of today condone the promiscous activities of their children tomorrow!!! How many young guys of today would be open minded enough later on and allow young men to flirt with their daughters tomorrow, as they do today?
It is easy to overlook the vast population of ordinary folks who are well behaved :roll: and decent :roll: when there is one seemingly tiny black spot. :roll:
Badri has painted the scene with stunning correctness & clarity. I fully agree it is the parents who have lost all sense of values. It is the parents who allow their tots to do vulgar dance numbers at school functions; I read a teeager confessing to sneaking out a pornographic CD from his mother's handbag; parenting is such a bore today-why bother with it; today's youth get no guidance either from the parents or the world outside dominated by MEDIA. No wonder commitments of marriage & parenthood are becoming a burden with temptation increasing for modern lifestyles of living-together, adopting a child, surrogate motherhood etc. MONEY is the only goal, and all the pleasures it can bring. Unrestrained indulgence in carnal pleasures is the bane of the present times. Babies are looked after in creche, the elders in old age homes, teens have a riotous time in educational campuses with people in twenties and thirties weighing questions of marraige & parenthood with utterly selfish, sensual priorities.
With such a state of affairs found around us, is it not wise to think about setting things right for the future generations, future of a country? We must start somewhere. Greed of MEDIA on the one hand & the independent, debauch young people settling down in life on the other hand are making it a tough job for anyone who wants to keep a sense of values alive.
Clash between generations have always been there and ultimately the winner is the goods in both sides. But as you both said now a days the older generation is no more involving themself.
Greatness is not in dealing with only the good, but in dealing with all and still retaining your goodness. Better said than done. But think with all these freedom its only a minority that is taking the "wrong" path.
That is solace indeed. But big fires start from a spark :shock:
From an article in today’s “Times of India”:
As if there weren’t enough women making news legitimately (or illegitimately), our two news magazines chose a week already in the throes of XXcess to unleash surveys indicating dramatic shifts in the female libido. “India Today” spread its cover story, “Sex and the single woman”, like a black satin bedsheet over 58 out of its 90 pages. “Outlook”’s Shefalee Vasudev revealed the trend of women buying men for physical gratification. It was pumped up by a ‘nationwide survey on forbidden sex’, the findings elevated by the classy photographs of Anita Khemka. Both magazines provided stastical endorsement of the widely known fact that today women are the more orgasmically adventurous, and the Dead Brown Male is swiftly- and boringly- joining his already extinct White counterpart.
Should we respond with applause or anxiety? It would depend on your chromosomal combination. However, if you try not to look at these surveys through the highly distorting prism of gender, you will see them as something else. As simply one more milestone in the recent journey of the Kama Sutra from sexual drive to circulation drive. When competition is aroused or readership droops, publish a sex survey. Or get a B-string to charge up the tale.
Media seems to have become the closest kith and Kinsey of sexual behaviour. We’ve been throwing the stuff at our readers without the slightest slip of our our sangfreud. Do any of these survey findings unshackle the attitudes of our authority figures? No. Do they alter more personal gender equations? No. Do they make life less fraught for hormonally healthy women? No. Do they give us journalists our raises? Yesss!
Hi all,
Quite a worthy discuission in this thread since I last visited.......unftly my PC is currently under repair & I can't afford to type for too long from net cafes but nevrtheless I've been reading all the posts in the last 2-3 pages......
PP ma'm, one query tho from ur posts- wats this abt Sarees/half-saress as dress-codes for girls?? :shock:
I thot this was the case 2-3 decades ago! :D and tat Salwar Kameez had been accepted as a Standard dress code for college girls (atleast in south)?? :?