I have never met Father Lokodo, (below) but he is at it yet again.
Bless him. A few years ago if memory serves me correct, he came out guns
blazing and tried to take on the world oldest profession – prostitution.
Speke Road, down by Post Office and other places where
Prostitute hangs out, were raided. But no sooner had the police pick-up carted
off one set to Jinja Road or CPS police stations, than another group of
prostitutes filled the void. And somewhere down the road the guns stopped
blazing and normal business was resumed.
While he is a minister and reports to the appointing
authority – M7 that is, as a Father and I am guessing here, it means he is some
sort of man of the cloth. That means he also reports to God. God must have
appraised him and told him: “Father Lokodo, what on earth is happening in
Uganda. You are falling well short of your targets. Do something.”
Father Lokodo didn’t need to be told twice especially after a
berating by God. He swung into action, walked to Ministry of Finance and asked
for sh2.6 billion. When asked what he intended to use the money for, he said: “A
machine and software that can detect porn...”
Searching the internet, the only porn detecting machine I was
able to come across is a memory stick. Hmm, sh2.6 billion for this (below)?
Porn I guess is almost as old as prostitution. When I was in
my teens, it was much more illicit to watch porn than it is today. In the video
stores, porn videos were hidden under the counter while magazines such as Playboy, Mayfair and Hustler were displayed on the top shelves.
But we still bought the magazines and we did look at the
images as well as watching the videos. In my case and many others, we didn’t end
up as pervs, though I will say that that the images of naked women in Playboy were very subtle compared to
those in Knave or Hustler.
Porn is everywhere today. Once deemed to be a male preserve,
women too are watching porn. Just about every girl in Mary Stuart Hall at
Makerere University or in Akamweesi Hotel who has access to a DVD player, has a
porn DVD. And it’s not soft core porn that DVD Hawker is hawking. He is hawking
the hard core stuff.
People who are in relationships, when they retire to their
bedrooms, I guess they engage in some form of porn. Father Lokodo is from the
old school and grew up knowing that the word ‘sex’ was a dirty word. He is used
to saying ‘copulating’. He is also from the old school that believes copulating
should be done in the ‘missionary position’. ‘Woman-on-top, doggy, wheel barrow’
and so forth are deemed to be porn. By the way, I can almost picture him wiping
his forehead of sweat and being in a state of collapse as he tried to fathom
the wheelbarrow position.
What we do in our homes is our business not so? If I want to
watch porn and I am watching it with adults and in private, of what business is
it to Lokodo? Will the porn detecting van and Porn Police stop outside our
homes and mount a raid? If a couple are having three some sex in the confines
of their home, is it anybody’s business? Will we also get raided?
I do however agree that there is a need to control porn
especially from children but the porn machine, I doubt is going to solve the
problem – unless it’s going to freeze the internet. But as parents, we have a
duty to control what our children watch on their tablets and smart phones.
What Father Lokodo has not told us, is what constitutes porn.
Mills and Boon, Jilly Cooper and Jackie Collins books, which just about every
other girl read, have ‘sex chapters’. Would that be porn? A movie in which
there are silhouettes of naked people, would that constitute porn? An R. Kelly
or Lil’ Kim video perhaps?
If Father Lokodo couldn’t get rid of Prostitute, then how on
earth does he intend to get rid of porn? Am not smacking him down. Am just
watching for who knows, there might be more to the machine like being able to
detect if we are having impure thoughts. Now that would be something else!
Pictures: New Vision, Internet
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