印度当局封杀了一个名为Savita Bhabhi的色情漫画网站，其漫画女主角是一位性欲旺盛、喜欢乱交的家庭妇女。这个决定引来诸多媒体批评。Maryam Omidi分析了封杀这则漫画的利与弊。
2009年，印度当局决定屏蔽一家名为Savita Bhabhi的色情漫画网站。该漫画的女主角叫Savita Patel，是一位性欲旺盛、喜欢乱交的家庭妇女。漫画以诙谐的方式讲述了她的种种艳遇。网站每个月有超过六千万读者，不过被印度政府援引反色情法加以屏蔽。
这项禁令引来了强烈的媒体批评，有报纸以大标题刊出《别让Savita死掉》。漫画的作者之一Puneet Agarwal表示“创作这个系列漫画的初衷是想表明印度女性也有性欲。印度依然是一个性压抑的国度，而要挣脱枷锁，需要先解放印度的女性。”
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as a woman comic artist, I am saddened that this kind of pornographic comics would be censored, sharing the same fate as live pornography. I do believe that it is the freedom of the artists to express themselves, and the problems and changes in society. I just looked up some of the comics pages and hope those pages represent well the comic as a whole and that the comments I am doing are not misplaced. We see a woman free with her body, who likes sex and knows how to use her body to get what she wants. But I also saw that the majority of the sexual scenes are mainly giving pleasure to man.
What I conclude about it?
In a sense it is a liberalization of the woman and her body. She controls it, enjoys it and in a way uses men to satisfy her desires.
In an other way it traps her in the circle of having to pleasure man in any way, and that this is the way she will be able to go through life, get the social stands and works she wants and needs. She is trapped in a vicious circle that has been long set in our societies, that women should be pleasured in pleasuring men, and not by receiving direct pleasure themselves. Although I am commenting this particular case, this is valid for any pornography as the greater public is male and products serve consumers demand.
For it to be censored? Well, I do not think it should. It opens our minds to other facets of women, as the fact that women can like sex without being automatically treated as a prostitute or underdog. Even though it is true that her pleasure passes through men first which is one of the bases of pornography, I do not think it should be censored at all or at least in the same way. In this case there are no live women usually forced into prostitution to produce this content. Here no one is hurt, except perhaps the men who read this comic and will now have to turn to some other, perhaps worse, “product” to alleviate their sexual desires and fantasies.
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I’m a firm believer in the liberation of sexualities. I also believe that all sorts should be represented in the media, as long as no one was harmed and children weren’t exploited.
Especially as this added something more than just pornographic images, I think it’s a shame that it was censored