It is related by Abû Dâ'ûd on the authority of Ali: "Do not look at the thighs of a person either alive or dead."

In reality Rasul-Allah did not only forbid us from looking at the 'awrah of another, but he forbade us also from looking at our own 'awrah. He said:

"Restrain yourself from nakedness, because with you have certain parts which will not separate from you, except when you are in the bathroom or when you consummate with your wife."

Although pornography has been seen in other cultures and religions, its rise and spread unrestrictedly began in the West in recent times. Even up to the 1950s, people felt shy to purchase pornographic materials and if one wanted to buy even in the United States of America, one only did so "through a friend of a friend". Pornographic material in print began to appear in paperback books a decade later, but they still avoided the use of vulgar terms to describe sex acts, genitalia, excretion, or other sexually related activity. Still photography depicted scantily dressed women in grainy black and white photographs that hid the pubic area. This avoidance of genitalia, according to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (U.S. Department of Justice, 1986), enhanced the popularity of magazines, photographs were taken in nudist colony settings which appeared in these magazines. It was only by the 1960s, public displays of phonographic materials became common. Simulated sex acts with no exposed genitalia …... began to appear in colour pictures.

Nudist magazines then began to portray photographic integration by gender, portraying male and female nudists playing and working together. By the mid-1960s, a group of pseudonudist magazines began to feature more attractive models than those who appeared in traditional nudist magazines. By 1967 or 1968, another group of magazines emerged that featured a kind of photograph designed to emphasize the female genitalia. Also in the late 1960s, a group of magazines began to cater for male homosexuals. The era also saw the growth of a small number of fetish books and magazines. By the early 1970s, sexually explicit magazines began to use more females and males and some depicted males and females together. With the liberalized Supreme Court attitude toward published obscenity, secondary publishers in the late 1960s and early 1970s began releasing new editions of almost all books that has been previously considered to be obscene. By 1970, Romance novels began to appear in which the most salient characteristic is sex and 77% of story titles directly implied some sort of sexual activity as the main theme for the story. Among the sample stories, 63% included coitus, 60% kissing, and 18% petting. The 1970 Commission on Obscenity and Pornography reported that "adults only" paperback fiction represented "one of the largest areas of pornography production in the United States".

In 60% of the coded episodes, the motive for sexual activity included only physical gratification, almost one-third involving the use of force by the male against the female. Males frequently coerced females.

Homosexuality, lesbianism and bestiality have been condemned in all the