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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector,
Forget it, Jim. It's Indiatown.
And yeah, there's a billion of 'em, and they make more babies every day. But they don't feel good about it.
I'm still trying to figure out that this peck on the cheek has scandalized a nation that produced the Kama Sutra. Guess there's no kissin' in that book, just screwin'.
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I was curious about this discrepancy, too, so I did a little googling and found
this blog entry by a writer who's lived in India and Latin American. He doesn't offer a definitive theory on why India's had such a turnaround on sexuality, but he offers a few guesses (the idea that both Muslim and colonial Victorian influences were factors seems pretty valid to me).
I'm not sure if it makes much sense to question how the culture that produced the Kama Sutra can have such wacked-out ideas about sexuality in public when we live in a culture that largely adheres to the Bible with its far more restrictive ideology that still manages to squeeze out pop culture that's awash in sexuality. If you want contradiction and hypocrisy in terms of sex and religion, you don't have to travel all the way to India - it's just flipped around (although it's interesting how women are ultimately still victimized as a result, in both cases).
