The Member of Parliament for Savelugu, Hajia Salifu Boforo, has ignited debate on the floor of Parliament when she made a statement on the contribution of pornography towards the upsurge in moral decadence in the country. In their contributions, the MPs were unanimous in their submissions that there was the need for drastic measures to be adopted to curb the interest of the youth in pornographic materials. In her statement, Hajia Boforo stated that pornography had moved into the mainstream through the renting of video cassettes, sales of soft-porn magazines and the airing of sexually explicit movies on television and the Internet. “In fact, porno in the country has become much more than just photographs of nude women and men,” she stated, adding that in cities one could easily find all kinds of pornographic materials almost everywhere. She explained that sadly both young and adult men and women were now in serious competition regarding patronage of such materials. “Madam Speaker, the quality and contents of movies produced by filmmakers in the country also leave much to be desired. Movies on the Ghanaian market are full of explicit sexual themes”. She stated that when she took the trouble to visit a number of Internet cafes in the city, she could not believe the widespread use of the Internet for pornographic purposes with the cafes being full of girls and boys browsing pornographic sites. Hajia Boforo was also worried about the' fact that most Ghanaian songs and movies had been corrupted, explaining that “our songs and movies are now full of profane and nudity perpetuated by our own people. “As a result, the stigma of shame that was once attached to pornography is now disappearing at a fast rate at the same time; illicit sex and its related diseases are now part of our daily lives,” she stated. She, therefore, expressed worry that the future of the younger generation was bleak since there were younger people whose minds were still forming and would believe that pornography was normal and acceptable. Hajia Boforo warned that posterity would judge the current generation if no firm measures were taken to protect the moral fabric of the country and called for immediate action to pass the cinematography bill into law in order to help regulate the contents of films in the country. She also urged the National Media Commission to step up its monitoring role to control the use of pornographic materials on the airwaves, in the print media and on television. Hajia also appealed to parents, guardians and teachers to educate the youth on the importance of decent behaviour and why pornographic materials must be avoided. Contributing to the statement, the MP for Abuakwa South, Mr Samuel Atta Kyea, called on women not to allow themselves to be used as object of pornography in songs and movies.