Polluters of young minds
We have to watch out for erotic publications amid the booming publication market in China, says an article in China Youth Daily. The following is an excerpt:
A survey conducted by China National Committee for the Wellbeing of the Youth revealed among juvenile offenders, 93 percent of the respondents confessed that they had read books, magazines or websites featuring violence, murder and pornography, or have watched videos of this type.
Before committing crimes, most of these juvenile offenders were well-informed of tactics to evade the police, which they learned from the poisonous publications.
Erotic audio and visual products have aroused sexual desires of the teenagers, resulting in their sexual license and even crimes. The violence content in publications has increasingly polluted the hearts of teenagers, making some of them admire those who act violently and slip into crimes.
The publication market in China still lacks proper regulations, leading to the chaotic situation and leaving room for some businessmen who only care about how to make profits out of these teenagers while ignoring their healthy growth.
Fortunately, concerned regulators have recently launched programs aimed to nurture a healthy cultural environment for teenagers, guiding them to form good reading habits and voluntarily resist malign information.
(China Daily 12/04/2008 page8)
