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Hey Fellow Indians – Let’s Talk SEX Hey Fellow Indians – Let’s Talk SEX
Posted by Sooraj • on 12/04/05 • under Society • Tags: society
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Our Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has had to encourage us Indians to talk about sex, well, safe sex! I wonder if that has happened in any other country, in the West some governments are trying quite hard to wean people away from it!
India – the land that gave the world Kamasutra – is now a terribly conservative society that frowns upon even the mention of sex. The reason we don’t talk about sex openly is because we are not very comfortable about it – in fact, we are totally uncomfortable about it. We squirm, we dig holes and disappear into them, or we laugh and brush it aside.
How are babies born – beta, God just slips them into your mother’s tummy when she’s asleep.
There was a petition at the Supreme Court recently for making sex education a fundamental right – this was petitioned in order to make Sex-Ed compulsory in schools. But the court rejected it, quite rightly if rightness is all the court is responsible for. Fair enough, that sex education may not deserve to be a fundamental right.
But can you suggest any other way that every kid will learn about the potential of their genitals in India? I have a Pakistani friend whose mother had taught her very well to beat up any man who touched her that when her fiancé tried to kiss her once, she just gave him one tight slap!
I think that the Judiciary should also be responsible for social welfare. I would rather that the court put in a conditional clause for making Sex-Ed a fundamental right for some 20 years.
The idea is that this ignorance about sex should disappear from the Indian atmosphere once again – so we would return to carving erotica on our temples, and rewriting the Kamasutra.
Instead, our government has instituted a new committee to formulate un-subjective directives for the Censor board to cut out any scenes that are unacceptable for public viewing. All this when in the UK, plans are afoot to make sex education compulsory for five-year-olds in order to reduce teenage pregnancy rate!
I decide what I want to view, not my Govt.! Do you want others to decide what you should see on the screen?
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Actually, the matter isn’t about Sex.
If there is actually a necessity to talk about Sex, sure, we are all game.
But the crux of the matter is how far can we go about talking sex? Where do we draw the borders? Can scatophilia or beastiality qualify as normal sex? Why should we decide what others should not see? Why restrict virtual pedophilia where its all 3d vituality and no children are harmed? Why not children see them too?
Is the cinema and steamy scenes the best way to learn about sex?
The media already glorifies sex and romance to such an extent that every schoolboy or collegedude/dudette feels useless unless he/she got a mate and screwed like rabbits and then, the next day graphically describe the adventures to their friends..
There are may psychological and sociological aspects to talking sex. Early 20th century witnessed the flower generation (aka Hippie) of US trying to make sex free.. free from encumbrances of marriage, guilt and committments.. make sex freely, give and take with no thought for tomorrow, etc..
but this experiment failed utterly. Even today, around the world, small communities of artists and nudists try to build a society with no limits, but thats not possible because MAN as an animal has even more stronger instincts than sex., namely power and pride.
Now, Men carve sex, but have difficulty sharing women with other men. Women might have lesser inhibitions sharing men, but the maternal instincts of women force them to get possessive about a strong partner so that that person may care for their offspring. These instincts are stronger and eventually force men into forming monogamistic relationships to avoid war among men. Actually tribal fights are almost always about projection of power by capturing women.
There can be no ignorance as to sex is concerned. Hormones at the right age will induce everyone to get curious about it and discover it one way or the other. Education is definetely required for youngsters to that they can handle relationships maturely and responsibilily, know about STD and pregnancies, but do we really need the public to shed their shyness and have sex openly in the parks?
What exactly are we asking for and is it really really really that necessary?