What’s wrong with Boy Bastos?
According to the news, Senator Loren Legarda has been on the assault against pornography. Her target: an Internet site called Boy Bastos.
According to GMANews.TV:
Legarda urged the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (Iacat) and the National Bureau of Investigation to shut down the site, which she called “the premier bastos portal of the Philippines.”
Legarda asked the NBI to look into the possibility of cyber-sex operators behind the website to “lure potential customers that can be directed to linked paid services.”
She said administrators of the website “have evidently also been investing large sums, entering paid porn sites abroad, downloading for a fee some of the materials, and then posting them on boybastos.com for all to see.”
Worse, she said the porn site encourages visitors to freely contribute their own videos, including so-called sex scandal videos.
The funny thing is that, in terms of raunchiness, the site is quite tame. So, what’s wrong with the site? The site defends itself, saying that it does not dabble in human trafficking or child prostitution. It does not deal with murder, nor does it sell illegal drugs. It says that it deals with something that is inherently natural in all human beings. One can easily argue that the female body is aesthetically pleasing to the eye and that erotica is an established art form. One man’s art form can be another’s obscenity.
Hence, if one finds something offensive on the Web, one can always resort to that close button at the upper left hand corner of one’s browser — which can be very useful if one finds a site distasteful.
