“Pornography!”
In an outraged article on 1 October, a writer from Ghana recalled an incident from his schooldays in which a group comprising at least one girl received the cane for looking at porn:
It has halted host of potentials. It has destroyed prospective dreams. It has robbed many of character and stripped myriads of moral discipline. It is gradually reducing both the youth and adults into what I call moral degradation.
‘Porn’ they call it normally or ‘Porno’ is sexual intercourse advertently designed to excite or better still arouse people. They appear in various forms basically books, pictures and films.
In our J.H.S (then J.S.S.) days some obstinate colleagues use to bring pornographic magazines to school.
I recall one of them (a girl) fortunately was caught together with colleagues who went through the magazine. Do you know what transpired the next morning?… All of them received strokes of cane at the school assembly. As if not enough, they were compelled to bring their parents to the school. They were even stretched to the brink of dismissal. Can you imagine the shame? I only hope they took a million lessons out of that.
