No people in the world
are more confused in their attitude towards sex than we Indians. Lands of
phallus- yoni worshipers laud the virtues of virginal chastity, renunciation
of sex and brahmacharya.
The Indian woman as a
sexual object is vilely abused. Manu reviled her as lusty, unreliable
unfaithful and with as insatiable appetite for sex.
When kissing is
forbidden, how is it that rape remains a staple feature of Indian films? It is
because humiliation of women is an integral part of the Indian male fantasy of
love. So, we have evolved three kinds of lovers; Majnu’s, Krishna’s and the
latest; Sharukh Khan-who is “good bad hero, neither overtly emotional like majnu
nor boyishly phallic like the Krishna Lover. In turn he has bred a new brand of
heroine, “a masculine feminine girl” the Kumari as the tom boy.
The sari is both a
very ornamental as well as functioned dress. Properly draped, it can accentual
the contours of the female form giving a special roundness to buttocks. A well
cut blouse worn with the sari elevates the bosom and exposes the belly to below
the navel. There is no other form of female attire which can both conceal
physical short comings of the wearer as well as expose what deserves exposure.
A fat woman looks less fat in a sari than she would be in a dress and then
women looks more filled in. at the same time sari is very functional. All a
woman has to do when she wants to urinate or defecate is to lift it to her
waist. When required to engage in a quick sexual inter course, she needs to do
no more than draw it up a little and open her lights.
To most newlywed
Indian couples, the concept of privacy is as alien as that of love. They rarely
get a room to themselves; the bride-wife sleeps with other women members of her
husband’s family the husband shares his charpoy (cots) lined alongside his fathers and
brothers. Occasionally the mother-in-law, anxious to acquire a grandson will
contrive a meeting between her son and his wife. The most common technique is
to get her to take a tumbler of milk to the lad when male member are elsewhere.
The lad grabs the choice for the “quickie”. Hardly ever do the couple get
enough time for a prolonged and satisfying bout of intercourse. Most Indians
men are not even aware that women also have orgasms; most Indian women share
this ignorance because although they go from one pregnancy to another, they
have no idea that sex can be pleasurable. This is a sad commentary on the
people of a country which produced the most widely read treatise on the art of
sex, Kama Sutra and evaluated the act of sex to spiritual sublimity by explicit
depictions on its temples.
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