Other ways of having sex

Came across a report in The Indian Express. (Those who don't want to read the report, it's about how Indian women are enjoying sex and how they are doing so in different ways.) It connects with an aspect of what has come to be called the DPS MMS scandal (from late last year): a topless girl filmed performing fellatio on a boy by the latter on his cell. My point is that Indians are having all kinds of sex—and they have been for hundreds of years if not since the birth of humankind. We know of references to different sexual positions (and behaviours—if not orientations) from ancient art and writing. The very fact that there are terms in our languages (Sanskrit and others) means that peno-vaginal penetration has not been the only way Indians have been having sex down the ages.
Yet not only are we queasy about admitting it (of course, we are uncomfortable talking about sex per se) we even hang on to a law that criminalizes all sex that’s “unnatural”—Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (see Nitin Karani’s blog for a discussion on the Indian government’s official reply to the Delhi High Court about its stand on the section). So how many heteros reading this knew before now that oral sex with anyone, whether their legally wedded spouse of the opposite sex or not, is a crime punishable by life even?
Isn’t this downright stupid and hypocritical. So do politicians and judges abstain from oral sex? Who are we kidding?

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Also I am amazed that the media, the police—everyone—has been blind to the fact that underage kids were having sex. That not just Section 377 but also the sections defining rape have been technically violated. Isn’t it time for law reform, especially section 377, definitions of “natural” and “unnatural”? Isn’t it also time we debated a more realistic age of consent for sex, whether with the same-sex or the opposite sex?