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Over half a million porn sites shut down in Saudi Arabia

10 porn websites open up very year, reports Sputnik

Newsroom March 19 12:51

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia arguably has some of the most backward laws in the whole world, as it adheres to a strict form of Islamic religious law called ‘Sharia’. Despite the state’s efforts, it has not managed to ‘morally purify’ its citizens from the vice of sexual desire…, as the Saudi Arabian telecommunications authorities were forced to block over half a million porn websites that were very popular in the Arabian peninsula. The popularity of pornographic sites in the region has increased rapidly over the past 2 years, with Russian Sputnik reporting that 10 large porn sites are opened every year.

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