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These succeed in the forms of compact discs and other storage media. Even television and armoury advertisements these days seem to be incomplete without some lurid display of the human anatomy, often the female one. This facet of the trend has grown into a huge industry. Music is no longer considered so unless there is some accompaniment of positive lyrics and obscene graphics.

Of all these troubling developments, the most egregious is the hawking of salacious X-rated hardcore materials, with children and minors having unrestricted access and baring to them.

The materials can be seen and bought in the open market hawked by vendors who don't segregate between minors and adults.

The problem is of such magnitude that it has raised serious concerns in some quarters. A mass of religious and community leaders have called on the authorities to take action, citing the arise of other social vices that they say flow from it.

Sociologists have long established a join between exposure to pornographic materials to minors and the rise in moral decrease b decline among the youths and a trend to general decadence in society at large.

Source: AllAfrica.com