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Out of the Box (How India deals with pornography)

First published in India Today, November 26, 2009.

46 per cent of married men and 64 per cent of married women [in India] say they would not see porn films with their partner. While it is all right for the married to reproduce in India, it is indecent for them to admit to indulgence in sex for pleasure.
Indeed, the father of our nation was vociferously opposed to married couples having sex for pleasure. Gandhi declared the sole purpose of sex was reproduction. And if couples intended not to make babies, then they shouldn't even be sleeping together. . .

It is a pity though that modern India does not seek its sex education from the gurus who preceded Gandhi by about 1,500 years, and not only wrote mammoth anthologies on sex but were so versatile in their knowledge of it that they were bestowed with the title of acharya. It would have solved many of our current sex-related problems, including overpopulation and squeamishness about porn.
India's ancient sexologists proclaimed that sex solely for the purpose of reproduction is what animals do. For humans, the aim is pleasure. And they asserted this applied to women as well. This pleasure was to be attained through the stimulation of each of our senses-sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, as well as intuition and balance was expounded on in the Kama Sutras. Read more here..

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