Sex & the Country.

Sex: overrated; under-celebrated; tabooed; raped by servants of religion, society & “culture”; molested by barons of the economy; sodomized by crime & all in all battered in time. Just let sex be!

The country, it procreates the Kama Sutra, marries a culture left behind by a proselytizing, power wielding & murderous Abrahamic religion from Victorian England, & disowns its seed to be a Bastard child! Have you futhamucin forgotten that Hinduism is pagan & polytheistic; read as celebrating & worshipping the body, sex, procreation and nature; not read as infidel (as Christians would love to call us) or Kafir (as Muslims would like to call us)! So, if 82% of the country falls in this bracket, why is it still a Herculean affair to remove the stigmatism, confusion, obsession & ostracism associated with sex & go back to the old “Hindu” ways?

Indian politics does nothing to alleviate the sexual psychosis. The so called ‘secular’ Congress will never liberate sex as it will violate the Abrahamic religions’ emotions & religious beliefs. The saffron brigade has no clue what it means to be Hindu, else they wouldn’t torture couples on Valentines day, protest the show of skin or tear down theaters for screening movies (like Fire or Split Wide Open) that show things as they are, as they should and shouldn’t be. Take a hint from your own temple walls (below) ignoramuses, do some reading (assuming you know how to) and discover that acts classified as paraphilia today were the norm in the day of your forefathers!

Consider these socio-legal brakes on the sexual revolution bandwagon:

1. Buying, selling or producing pornography is illegal in India! Great going numbskulls, all it does is create an underground porn cartel that abuses women (adults & underage) regularly to have them star in these movies which BTW are produced out of the country, thereby necessitating and aiding the trafficking of women! All that the government does by outlawing pornography is push sexually deprived men to the brink of crime. Look for statistics (after the next point) for the advantages of legalizing pornography and prostitution.

2. Its no secret that prostitution is the oldest trade. Although it was scorned at by ancient India, it was regulated to protect the society and sex workers from STDs, abuse & social ostracism. (BTW, the Ayurveda & Kama Sutra provided prostitutes with effective contraceptives and STD drugs and vaccines. Eat that Durex!). Modern India neither outlaws nor legalizes prostitution. It forbids sex workers from publicly soliciting or practicing prostitution but doesn’t outlaw the concept of sex for money! So the pimps (Babus) set up clandestine brothels (which are illegal ) & force / lure poor, helpless women into the trade. The vague laws don’t make it any easier for these women to report abuse by pimps or customers as they end up being harassed by cops who often arrest them for soliciting/practicing sex in public places. By forcing prostitution out of places where it would more naturally be found, such as in brothels or near motels, the police drive that activity into the streets of neighborhoods where it otherwise would not exist, exposing residents to the activity against their will.

My take: make pornography & prostitution legal. Look at the statistics below to understand its impact! ( Source: Liberator ). The tables list crime rates, rape rates, HIV rates etc in countries where prostitution is legal in one form or the other (Saudi Arabia allows polygyny and Iran offers "temporary wives” while all others legalize prostitution.) and these countries happen to have the best stats in each of the listed categories!! (except for the US, next paragraph addresses the issue). Call that coincidence? I call you stupid.

The US is an aberration. Reason: prostitution is legal only in a few counties in Nevada. Duh, most of the US lives outside these counties, so how the phuck can you list it among countries where prostitution is legal?!! Its like putting India on the list for having the biggest brothel (Sonagachi, Calcutta), albeit an illegal one! Also, a majority of the US’ population is conservative, backward and follow rigid versions of Abrahamic religions. Why do you think abortion is illegal in most states here and Bush is in power for the second time!!

Recently, I had an argument with a fellow blogger about legalizing prostitution. Here is her take on the issue. She cites trafficking as one of the consequences of legalization. Some scoop: many poor young women are kidnapped from Indian villages, and sold into rape slavery to Arab countries with stringent laws on sex and prostitution (source Wikipedia). My point is, trafficking and legalization are independent issues, the former is a failure on the part of the authorities to enforce laws (much like smuggling or money laundering) and to comprehensively educate its populace on sex, sexuality, lasting relationships and reproductive health starting with adolescents. (now see the connection between conservative societies and sex crime?). She also argues that women who wouldn’t otherwise indulge in the flesh trade now do it legally as it is a legitimate & good source of income! Again, this is fallacious. Some women in Indian universities or for that matter, the world over, are known to double up as whores/strippers/escorts at night to make ends meet. (Duh, that’s the classic reason why women voluntarily enter the flesh trade!!). I don’t see how legalizing it makes it more rampant. It is only a question of the woman’s moral stand on the issue and not that of it being legal or not. If anything legitamizing the trade only protects these fragile kids from abuse. QED.

Here’s food for thought for all you religious people, sexual conservatives & governments. We become pubescent (religious guys, read it as God makes you pubescent) at twelve for one reason only: to procreate. Oh BTW, man is the only ‘animal’ known to indulge in sex for pleasure (we evolved to enjoy it, hence our success as a species that efficiently procreates!), all others do it only when the female is in ‘heat’. Religion comes along, and makes it the ‘original sin’, society comes along, dictates monogamy (while we are intrinsically programmed, like any other specie, to be polygamous ) and fixes ages for legal sex (lmbo)!! The last statement does not stand by pedophilia, just recognizes the fact that teens get pregnant because they were meant to! Humanity is taking the same direction with sex as it has with oil, pollution, wildlife, conservation of resources etc: the negative one, the one that’s not meant to be, one that’s marked in bright red as “Self Destruct Mode”

PS: I have included images of modern art that reflect perceptions of sex and related issues in modern society. I spent a lot of time in searching these fine pieces and have edited a few of them. I am too lazy to reference each of em, but give the creators their due credit anyways :-) (yeah yeah, against copyright laws etc, but again, look at the sheer number of images). Click on each for full size displays. Download, store, enjoy, learn.