by IJLMH | Oct 28, 2019
Obscenity laws are concerned with prohibiting lewd, filthy, or disgusting words or pictures, and there are major disagreements as to what is or isn’t obscene and what role the government should play in enforcing social or cultural morals. The best diet for infants and toddler is the best milk it is highly recommended by the paediatrician to exclusively breastfeed infants at least or 6 months. With regards to breastfeeding a baby, a mother has to face the situation aboutthe places where to fed a child whether it is indoor or outdoor. Cultural, legal, social, and religious plays a very important role in creating a safe and comfortable environment for a mother to breastfeed in public. The acceptance for breastfeeding in public is not always the same.It can be stated as the cruel truth that breastfeeding in public places may imply that breastfeeding is unnatural, undesirable or even illegal due to the controversy arising out of it. Breastfeeding in public as an obscene act has been a dreadful misconception in all over the world. The research paper has been written with to analyze the explicit meaning of obscene and indecency on the subject matter of Breastfeeding in Public. The research is purely based on secondary source like journals, book, legislation, articles,etc.
The conflict between the concept of breast milk being pure (like tears), and contaminated or “dirty” (like genital secretions or vomit) is raising in many cultures at present. In these settings, the female breast might be considered fundamentally a sexual organ, and in this manner a private part of the body, which should be undetectable in general society field. Theinconvenience with breastfeeding in broad daylight brings down breastfeeding rates, which thus adversely influences ladies’ and youngsters’ short-and long-haul health.
Keyword: Obscenity, Breastfeeding, Public, Indecency, Obscene Act
by IJLMH | Apr 6, 2019
Decency varies from place to place, person to person. With the progress of the society and change in the lifestyle of the people, standard of propriety etc. keep on changing. So with the passage of time, the meaning of decency kept on changing, the degree of morality and decency also took a new look. The 21st century is known as the age of the information and scientific development. In the traditional society exposure of women through advertising, painting, publications or otherwise was not accepted but today it has become a fashion. In the present era, Women, instead of being portrayed as sex objects or glam dolls should be projected in a proactive and empowered manner, which can have maximum impact on the society and bring about an attitudinal/ behavioral change among people towards women. The Indian Constitution in its Preamble, not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Within the framework of a democratic polity, our laws, development policies, plans and programmers have aimed at women’s advancement in different spheres. India has also enacted various laws to secure equal rights of women. The Indian Penal Code in Section 292, 293, and 294 IPC mentions laws to curb obscenity. In spite of all these provisions, there is growing indecent representation of women or references to women publications, particularly in advertisements which have the effect of denigrating women and are derogatory to women. Therefore the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986 was legislated to effectively prohibit indecent representation of women through any publication, media or advertisement. This paper attempts to discuss laws relating to obscenity & indecent representation of women. The research paper concludes with suggestions through with the problem can be dealt with in an efficient way. My paper would emphasize on the following point.
