The National Council of Women must be commended for speaking up against the depiction of men and women in a degrading and offensive manner, under the pretext of ‘fiction’ or ‘literary’ work.

I also support their statement that respect for human dignity is to be safeguarded and guaranteed, and that insulting images of men and women should not be allowed to proliferate. Turning persons into objects of lust violates the inherent value of human beings living in a civilised society.

Holding back write-ups, representations and broadcasting of pornography shows that society cares and will not allow itself to be pressured by lobby groups into giving up the defence of those vulnerable, perhaps through poverty or vices, to exploitation.

Those who really have at heart the well being of the vulnerable and the poor should campaign for a high moral standard and not for pseudo rights, which unleash camouflaged violent instincts in unprincipled moneyed and powerful sections of society and does not really cater to the common good.

Those who truly have the family at heart should speak out as the National Council of Women will do in the forthcoming Progett Impenn national conference slated for early February, and not toe the line of foreign organisations who envy Malta and Gozo’s much better society to that prevailing on the European continent and elsewhere.

G. Bonett

MARSALFORN