by Mayavi Morpheus » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:25 pm
Please. Don\'t give me the \"we are Indians, our culture, our tradition...\" crap. Yes, I call it crap because I don\'t think that Indians were conservative when it came to sex in anyway. If Indians (read Hindus) were really conservative regarding friendship b/w male and female and sex (pre martial and after marriage) then who were the people who carved explicit sexual postures, which even the modern western world, shudders to think about? And who were the people who researched and wrote \"Kamasutra\". Martians?
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No my dear, Indians were never conservative in those matters. It\'s only the barbaric invasion of Afghan warlords and their persecution that brought veils/goshas to Indian women. Women were never an oppressed lot in India. In fact, India was a matriach society.
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Kings and queens of India had paramours, they relished sex. Many had premartial sex, \"boy\" friends, and even married women had fantasies about other men! Didn\'t Draupadhi fantasise about Duryodhana? Mahabaratha may not be a real story, but it was authored a good 3000 years back and Kunti, Draupadhi were accepted by the society. So is Radha. Didn\'t she love Krishna? There are still tribes/villages in India where men and women live togather before marriage. That\'s a tradition. They only marry after having kids.
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So why did India and Indians became so conservative, where even sex for pleasure (after marriage) is considered taboo, forget friendship? Sex has become synonymous with procreation, and the Indian govt. still follows a 150 year old british law which considers sex for pleasure an offence. Several reasons, main being foreign aggression. The only way Hindus found to save their women was to imitate the muslims and veil their women. Sati was introduced by Rajputs, and the subsequent oppression of women, too.
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Inspite all of this, \"friendship\" between opposite sexes was never a social taboo even in the \"conservative\" Indian society. So please differentiate between friendship and sex. Friends are different from lovers.
May the Fries be with you!