Jil Wheeler writing at The Morning News takes a look at Mumbai Mirror’s daily “Ask the Sexpert” column to get a sense of the sex-related questions and concerns plaguing Indians. We are psyched, this is two of our favorite things together in one article: India and sex.
So what does she find?
A lot of the standard "I ejaculated on her foot, is she pregnant?" "She touched my elbow, do I have AIDS?" brand anxiety mixed with a hazy moral position on what's acceptable for the sexual Indian. All the while, Wheeler's Sexpert dispenses advice that is "practical and terse to the point of catatonic."
Far from anti-sex himself, the Sexpert seems reconciled to the fact that 50 percent or so of his correspondents are unmarried. While sex is ideally saved for marriage, there is an alternative magic number: 21. Sex before that is “incorrect behavior [that] will affect your future.” Odd behavior seems to transcend age: Cross-dressing husbands get a pass—after all, “Women are wearing pants these days, so why stop him?”—as do people who like to bring vegetables (“smooth and washed thoroughly”) into bed. Anal sex, however, is completely off-limits. An expert not only on sex but on dodging the question, Dr. Watsa “cannot advise you on anal sex since it is illegal in India.”
This isn't so outlandish, even Sue Johanson won't touch anal sex.
[Photograph by Trey Ratcliff via The Morning News]