Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Ask a North Korean: can you get hold of pornography?

In an ongoing series, NK News poses a reader’s question to a defector. This week: x-rated films and sex education


Pornographic movies and x-rated magazines are very rare in North Korea.
If you ever came across one, they’re most likely to have been smuggled and distributed on the black market. It’s not like in America or South Korea, where you can go buy this month’s Playboy at your nearest bookstore. In the North, the government simply don’t allow it.
If someone gets caught with porn – or distributing it – they get sent to a correctional prison camp.
A correctional prison? What happens you're corrected by being forced to watch documentaries about the Kim family? Or worse, forced to believe that Kim-Jong il holds the record for most holes in one.


Sex education
But that’s part of a much larger problem: sex education also doesn’t exist at schools in North Korea.
When I was a high school student, students went on dates but even cuddling was inconceivable to us, let alone kissing. The bravest thing we could do was walk holding each others’ hands in alleys when no one else was watching. If we ran into someone unexpectedly, we would pretend we hadn’t been doing anything as “obscene” as holding hands.
This sounds just like something American conservatives would promote. While people like Bristol Palin gets pregnant.  During which time she promotes abstinence as form of birth control.  Which hasn't worked out too well for her.



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