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The nation thrills to songs like ‘main aayi hoon UP Bihar lootne’. BJP MLAs were once caught surfing porn in the Karnataka assembly. Indian porn consumption is so high that India ranks at number 3 in Android traffic to Pornhub after the US and UK. Porn star Sunny Leone is venerated as a Bollywood actor and colourfully pornographic insults pepper our daily discourse in every walk of life. Yet in an oh-so-righteous fit of guarding ‘morality’, the government tried to ban porn, only to retract later after many Indians justifiably voiced their need to watch films like My Bare Lady.
When it comes to porn, Indians are chanting yeh dil maange more. As Swaminathan Aiyar writes, songs like ‘Jumma chumma de de’ are musical illustrations of harassment and stalking. “Eve teasing” is a semi-pornographic art form in Hindi cinema. Villain Ranjeet’s rape scenes were so popular that audiences cheered when he performed them. Blue film parlours proliferate in cities. Yet on the issue of porn we inhabit the Republic of Hypocrisy.
We avidly watch the semi-nude Mandakini frolicking in a wet sari. Holi songs are picturised through wet gyrations to rather morally slippery lyrics. Jhatkas and matkas of 36-24-36 figures mark our festive occasions and videos of Silk Smithaa and Sneha are viral on social media. In our country we are certainly not porn free. Song sequences, especially in South Indian movies have transformed from the 1960s kiss coyly ending in a profusion of flowers to sado-masochism set to a frantic orchestra. For us it’s not Fifty Shades of Grey, but all blue.
As far as porn is concerned, hamaam mein sab nange hain. Those protesting about pornography are in denial about the fact that we are in perpetual search of the Kamasutra-Khajuraho way of life.
The government needs to catch criminals, not restrict freedom in the process. We may think our society is a Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham-style family soap opera but the Indian ‘Bhabhi’ in desi porn is shown celebrating Maha Shiv Ratri in very different ways than in a saas bahu serial. Banning porn is naked hypocrisy in a country where we Indians are singing ‘choli ke peeche kya hai’.
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When it comes to porn, Indians are chanting yeh dil maange more. As Swaminathan Aiyar writes, songs like ‘Jumma chumma de de’ are musical illustrations of harassment and stalking. “Eve teasing” is a semi-pornographic art form in Hindi cinema. Villain Ranjeet’s rape scenes were so popular that audiences cheered when he performed them. Blue film parlours proliferate in cities. Yet on the issue of porn we inhabit the Republic of Hypocrisy.
We avidly watch the semi-nude Mandakini frolicking in a wet sari. Holi songs are picturised through wet gyrations to rather morally slippery lyrics. Jhatkas and matkas of 36-24-36 figures mark our festive occasions and videos of Silk Smithaa and Sneha are viral on social media. In our country we are certainly not porn free. Song sequences, especially in South Indian movies have transformed from the 1960s kiss coyly ending in a profusion of flowers to sado-masochism set to a frantic orchestra. For us it’s not Fifty Shades of Grey, but all blue.
As far as porn is concerned, hamaam mein sab nange hain. Those protesting about pornography are in denial about the fact that we are in perpetual search of the Kamasutra-Khajuraho way of life.
The government needs to catch criminals, not restrict freedom in the process. We may think our society is a Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham-style family soap opera but the Indian ‘Bhabhi’ in desi porn is shown celebrating Maha Shiv Ratri in very different ways than in a saas bahu serial. Banning porn is naked hypocrisy in a country where we Indians are singing ‘choli ke peeche kya hai’.
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