The Editor, Sir:

I heard your columnist Dr Glenda Simms, on prime time, saying cable TV was the source of the lewd, filthy and crude movies that have made children into (premature) adults. Dr Simms should be informed that cable TV is not the rave anymore.

That has been replaced by DVDs which are sold to children, containing explicit XXX movies, expletives and gun-related crimes for as little as $100 per 'burnt' copy.

Cable TV no longer has a big effect on children because the networks broadcast movies that are repeated several times per day and the content of these channels are very mild, compared to the content of DVDs sold illegally on sidewalks across the Corporate Area. The DVD craze has become infectious, affecting both children and young adults.

The sellers make the cases very attractive and colourful, depicting wild sex trade, featuring foreign women. Students as young as 11 are able to purchase the discs and watch them at their friends' houses or when parents are not at home.

Copyright materials

The copyright materials on these DVDs carry no enforcement, restrictions or infringement and policemen buy them liberally as well. I have seen policemen in Half-Way Tree, adjacent to the NCB bank, browsing the DVDs, apparently trying to determine which ones they should purchase.

Until some authority clamps down on illegal DVD sellers, we will not see the healing of the minds of adolescents and younger adults from sex crimes and expletive-laden abuse being aped by children. Expletives today seem to be a normal form of communication among young adults, especially when they congregate in open spaces like the transportation centre in Half-Way Tree. Cable TV isn't that big a deal anymore, Dr Simms.

I am, etc.,

DELROY LAWRENCE

fortis-forever@hotmail.com