wow there is still hope for south africa, you want to watch porn subscribe to a channel online - This is a very very good thing- We dont need any more rape victims in this country as it stands. Anycase real men dont watch porn!!!!!!!

@ The Union of Religious Demon Slayers - TURDS what a perfectly apt acronym you have there. No need to say anything else lol.

Dear Laura, following your letter (11:33am) I researched the tragic Sheldean Human case, as reported on internet. I saw a reference to some 'pictures of naked women, depicting their genitals' allegedly found by the police but Acting Judge Chris Eksteen did not find this to be the proven cause of the crime, at least not in the reports I read. But I am open to correction by you, if you have admissible evidence and not just rant. Again, I ask, name one case where pornography was the PROVEN cause of a serious crime.

@anonymous, well put brother i commend u for that. as to laura, well lady just cause ur sex life is crap dont mean u gotta hate watching other woman climax. and whats this about women and children????? last i checked there were men doing it with the woman so why the hell does these bloody rights u refering to not go both ways.u see d**k u dont mind but one tit shown and u up in arms..... get a life or rather get a men to please u then maybe u just might watch porn with him to better ur bed life.

All the pro-porn comments fail to answer the actual issue. Does porn portray women positively or negatively? It obvoiusly portrays them negatively. Secondly, the majority of ?s?africans have always rejected porn when surveyed etc. cOSATU's opposition is further proof of this. A minority cannot dictate the morals of the majority, and porn is rejected by the majority. It has also been provne that porn is addictive psychologically. Read the research. It's on the net.I presume that the commentators have no problem with their adult daughters beingg porn stars and their work colleagues commenting on this? Absence of morality is usually only ok until it happens to you and yr kids, then the ugliness hits home.

To Laura - Firstly there wouldnt be child porn on TV as this is illegal. Secondly not everyone that watches porn is a rapist. Thats like saying every child that plays TV games becomes a violent killer, or someone who eats beef enjoys slaughtering animals, its nonsense. You do realise that 90% of men watch porn and only 1% rape? The two have nothing to do with each other, in fact it may be the opposite. A lustful man would relieve himself to porn rather than using prostitutes or raping people. Your arguement holds no water and is a very close minded idea of how society functions.

ICASA in kinky sex scandal!!! Quote: "...until January 16, 2012 for oral submissions..." Nothing wrong with a bit of oral submission to warm things up.

We, The Union of Religious Demon Slayers [TURDS] laud ICASA for its firm stand against filth and smut on television.It is sordid pornography like 'Niptuck' and 'Two and a Half Men' that is leading our nation astray [Yes, ICASA has much work to do-Strength to your arms, Patriots!] . Where have all the good, uplifting shows gone? In this regard, we refer to wholesome gems like 'The Waltons', 'The Brady Bunch', and 'Eight Wives is Enough'. In past days there were also sophisticated, more intellectual, programs in Afrikaans, such as 'Spies en Plesier' and the much-missed 'Willy Walie'. It is the few good souls in ICASA who stand between this country and moral collapse. Let all of us who follow The True Teachings unite against the evil Demon, Pornography, and its evil siblings, Sex and Masturbation. As we in TURDS say in our Founding Principles "Porn is very,very, bad! Porn is worse than Poverty, Inequality, Homelessness and Illiteracy!"

Theres enough porn on the internet anyway but really this is totally pathetic. These ultra-christians make me laugh, they probably dont want their priests watching it with their kids.

Excellent, well done. South African society isn't ready for this, not until the archaic predator view in which alot of men in this country view women and children. and to Anonymous, there have been plenty of cases in recorded history regarding the link between pornography and abuse towards women and children. I can give you a list if you want? oh but you just want one case, ok, little Sheldean Human's perpetrator that raped and killed her had child pornography under his bed. Don't pass comments you know nothing about, you come across as painfully naive.

Let's also ban all religious programmes - as I personally find them offensive...as religion has caused millions of deaths world wide - from the Crusades to the Holocaust....The same mentality applies to both porn and religion.

you let gays and lesbians have their rights but you dont want people to have their freedom of what they want to watch in their own living room. Those women in those want to be their because they are earning money so how can you say they are being abused, how can you say they are being degraded when it's their choice to make porno. Everyone has a right to choose and thats what a democratic society is about. Get off your flippen high horse and let people live their lives or else you will have a revolt on your hands. I'm a happily married man and my wife knows i watch porn, she knows i love her and treat her with respect and will never sleep with another women, so how can you say porn disrespects women?????? Just get a life!!!! and let people live theirs!!!!!

you let gays and lesbians have their rights but you dont want people to have their freedom of what they want to watch in their own living room. Those women in those want to be their because they are earning money so how can you say they are being abused, how can you say they are being degraded when it's their choice to make porno. Everyone has a right to choose and thats what a democratic society is about. Get off your flippen high horse and let people live their lives or else you will have a revolt on your hands. I'm a happily married man and my wife knows i watch porn, she knows i love her and treat her with respect and will never sleep with another women, so how can you say porn disrespects women?????? Just get a life!!!! and let people live theirs!!!!!

Dear C de Villiers (08:01am) Please name one case where pornography was PROVEN to be the cause of a rape, sexual abuse, child abduction and molestation or sexual harassment of women and children. Proven, as in a verdict by a competent Court; not some generalisation like 'everybody knows.....'

Where and when was this 'vigorous public consultation process' held? I never saw it. Must have been really well publicised for ICASA to get 13 written submissions. Wow. Still, let's all wait for their reasons document within 30 days. Then it can be analysed and challenged.

Who says Errol Naidoo can suddenly rule peoples lives

It's such a pity that Icasa does not tackle the obscenity of Telkom's blocking the internet and denying women, men and children the right to low-cost high-speed broadband. No-one was going to be forced to watch pay-porn but everyone is forced to put up with Telkom's selfish obduracy. It is this that is holding the county back.

I think that there is now one less outlet for the sex crazed out there who will have to settle for the real thing. Lets hope they use protection in our AIDS infested population and curb the teenage unwanted pregnancies

I'm assuming that since you would have to have subscribed to this service, they're going to close down all the porn shops around SA now? I don't see the difference between buying something via satellite and walking into a shop - that kids see on their way to school and women not only walk past but work in - and buying the stuff in hard format. Moreover, it's so freely available on the Internet I honestly don't see that it makes a big difference. ICASA simply bowed to populist sentiment.

This is a small and premature victory for Beryl Naaidoo and her Family Planning Institute [all 2 members], as well as for wholesalers and retailers of quality discreet adult entertainment [who now can keep their prices high]. The proposed price-competitive offering by Topless TV would have been a blessing for ordinary folk, especially in these hard economic times. This is a shameful decision by ICASA, one undoubtedly based on soft reasoning. It is married women folk who could suffer the most from this, faced now with continuing to put up with their spouses' perhaps excessive conjugal needs. In this regard, Topless TV with their wholesome adult shows would have provided much needed relief. The disappointed punters out there as well as Topless TV should continue to have faith, and keep in hand firm resolve...yield not to the smutty-mindedness of the 2 man Family Planning Institute and the political correctness and hypocricy of the well-remunerated champions on ICASA. To the latter esteemed worthies we offer the well-known truism: "Fart in the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind!"