India Bans Condom Ads From Prime-Time TV

India Bans Condom Ads From Prime-Time TV
Bal Krishna Bhartia said that This is India and it has its own culture, and anything related to sex is generally not publicly discussed,
40011/01/2014-BC-1, now known as the condom ban, saying
that condom commercials could be "indecent/inappropriate for viewing by children." Some critics of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party accused it of being motivated less by children’s welfare than by prudishness, pointing to past moves like blocking hundreds of pornographic websites and an effort to eliminate sex education from government schools.
Poonam Muttreja said that We need to reach out to more people with more and more advertising, not less,
And they have no side effects." Ms. Muttreja said the prime-time ban for condom ads was in "direct contradiction
to the population policy of the government." Please verify you’re not a robot by clicking the box.
So India’s government stepped in this week, declaring condom commercials "indecent" viewing for children
and restricting them to the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., when relatively few people watch television.
The country’s population currently stands around 1.3 billion,
and within the next decade India is expected to pass China and become the world’s most populous nation.