“There are no laws against pornography in India and watching adult content privately. It’s evident that the Indian government does not have a solution to a very serious and systemic problem in the country, and is using adult sites like ours as a scapegoat,” said Corey Price, vice-president at Pornhub. “For the government to ban sites like ours that have compliant parental controls, a non-consensual take down page, and a strict terms of service is a disservice to the people of India, who have become one of the largest connoisseurs of adult content.”

Meanwhile, the ban is being mocked brutally on social media.

No stopping us

For the world’s third-biggest porn-watching nation (after the US and the UK), the mobile traffic share to Pornhub has grown 121% between 2013 and 2017, the highest for any country.

But Indians don’t rely only on such porn websites for adult content. The internet is afloat with plenty of options.

In any case, there are easy ways to circumvent the ban itself. There are hoards of proxy websites—Hidester, Hide.me, Whoer.net, and Anonymouse—for that.

Moreover, even the internet ban is not really foolproof as users can still access the banned portals on some browsers—the UC browser being the most popular.

For those who are not savvy, access to porn is probably just a few footsteps away given the massive grey market of offline pornography. A porn DVD can be bought in India for as little as Rs30 ($0.41). Nowadays vendors also offer to upload porn on a flash drive for similar rates.

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