In a Facebook note, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has taken on the taboos of sex and porn prevalent in India. He wrote about how it was important to speak openly about the topics and not tiptoe around it.
"If porn is defined as a visual which will cause a sexual arousal,the first ever porn an ancient prehistoric man would have seen,would be the very sight of a woman," he wrote. "There’s no scientific evidence that the effect of porn on your brain is any different from what is generated by television or movies or video games. It’s a proven scientific fact that a greater social access to pornography actually decreases sexual crimes..Instead of creating an atmosphere for sexual crimes porn actually provides a more safer outlet to release sexual frustration. And coming to its psychological effects, thinking about slapping your boss doesn’t increase the chances of you doing it nor desiring the woman u saw at the beach increase the chance of you sexually assaulting her..This in the same way as one doesn't join a criminal gang because he liked a gangster film."
"Just because it suits some regressive minded people, they keep on attempting to repress society in every which way and this present attempt to protest against God, Sex, Truth and Porn is nothing but one of those strangulation processes of the liberty of individuals," he wrote.
He had landed in hot water a day before the release of his movie featuring God, Sex and Truth featuring adult star Mia Malkova. On Thursday, the filmmaker was booked on the basis of a complaint by a Hyderabad activist.
According to reports, a case against him was filed under Section 63 of the IT Act. Women's groups across Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam had held protests against the filmmaker saying that the movie objectified women.
Varma had earlier said that shooting God, Sex and Truth with American porn star Mia Malkova in Europe was an "elevating and thought provoking experience".
