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Adventurer
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: Porn dominates Saudi mobile use |
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 13:09 GMT 14:09 UK
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Porn dominates Saudi mobile use
Gender segregation is enforced strictly by the Saudi authorities
Up to 70% of files exchanged between Saudi teenagers' mobile phones contain pornography, according to a study in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.
The study quoted in Arab News focussed on the phones of teenagers detained by religious police for harassing girls.
The same researcher also found that 88% of girls say they have been victims of harassment using Bluetooth technology.
Saudi Arabia has toughened penalties for misuse of mobile phones which challenge its strict social traditions.
"The flash memory of mobile phones taken from teenagers showed 69.7% of 1,470 files saved in them were pornographic and 8.6% were related to violence," said report author Professor Abdullah al-Rasheed.
He presented his study at a seminar organised by the King Fahd Security Academy, Arab News reports.
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dogbert
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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What is porn to a Saudi?
Someone wearing a short-sleeve shirt? |
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caniff
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| D1ck in one hand and your celly in the other. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
What is porn to a Saudi?
Someone wearing a short-sleeve shirt? |
With the internet, they can see pretty much everything it seems and they share and exchange images with each other from what I can gather.
It is obviously not Arab porn, though Arab porn does exist in North Africa and Lebanon and to some extent Egypt, though it is probably black market underground stuff unlike the West and Korea. The people in the country, I would imagine, feel very repressed and the young Saudi men are very bored and frustrated in many cases...I've never been there, but I can imagine since I've known people who lived there. It is not as sheltered as it used to. |
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