Woman Between Islam and Western Society
2. Woman in Society
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They did so only to find that it was impossible to
have an independent life by working like men in
the outside world. The only alternative available
to them to making money was their femininity.
Like the country girl who fled her home, they had
to sell their femininity in the market place. Such
unnatural and immoral acts failed to give women
an equal status. This resulted rather in the
creation of innumerable new problems. One of
them is pornography, which is not a separate
problem in itself, but the inevitable result of
unrestricted freedom having given way to
licence.
PORNOGRAPHY
Pornography is the representation of erotic
behavior, as in books, pictures, or films, intended to
cause sexual excitement. Pornographic matter has
fallen under legislative prohibition in most
countries in the world on at least one of the
following assumptions: (1) pornography will tend
to deprave or corrupt the morals of youth, or of
adults and youth; and, (2) consumption of such
matter is a cause of sexual crimes.
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