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From: Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goanet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet]Re: Goa's fun image Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:38:00 +0530
So there was sex in Miramar? Whom did it scandalize? Would you like to name
one person among many of the rich and powerful[ age, sex, religion no bar]
who were involved in the sex? It becomes a scandal only when it is public.
Extra-marital sex among the very rich and the very poor is not a scandal. It
rarely receives public attention. Even prostitutes coming by charters to
'service' the growing Indian clientele is not a scandal. Baina was.Pre- and
extra-marital escapades are not for the middle class or the noveau riche.
They are scandalous.
"Sex in Miramar", recalls me to pleasant episodes in times less sordid, the Greenfields' days:Viva Goa. Miguel
In the Pinhal, around where the present day MULTIFLEX has sprung up there used to be a half-a-dozen,
rather seedy, ladies-of-pleasure, the stapple of the garrisoned paclés and dedicated initiators of generations of Liceu and Escola Médica boys, who, in turn, in turn initiated consenting girls, hardly a rare breed.
They were a caring lot (I have been so told), offering their wares affordable, and bargainably flexible, stipendia, generous, often unredeemed, credit and, above all imparting practical instruction in due facts-of-life, abysmally lacking in the existant curriculae in L. A. de A., Matmó or the E.M.: such as "cuidar dos martelos".
In those days, when very scarce "quatro tangas" provided a bellyfull in Central, Real or Tató, a durex, costing as much, and many baneful looks in the Drogaria Andrade, was too often eschewed.
But the Pinhal worthies would not countenance such dereliction: the poor things used to save sheaths
discarded by the soldiers for re-circulation among the "disemparados".
Such charity, however, did not extend towards the well-heeled, especially the irregulars: thus, once, when the governor, Vassalo e Silva, as was his occasional wont, was promenading the Pinhal, mistaking him for a prospective client one of the ladies solicited him with tempting offers and demanding rather an extravagant fee.
He was a good-natured chap and took it in stride, remarking: Does it cost so much here? It is cheaper in Cais de Sodrë, I assure you, senhora. Whereupon, a passing soldier smartly saluting him and stammering Sr. Governador, put a summary end to the ongoing transaction.
I had heard about the episode (hearsay, of course) and the general confirmed it when I met him in 1968. He was, for a few years, not a general then.
So, you see, has been quite proto-legal in Goa in times past; the Pinhal was more the altruistic genre;
the Tambddi Mati (B's Bastion), Mardol, Ponda and Zambaulim the traditional temple-girls and the Camara-bhatt in Margao offering the sinuous municipal street cleaners moonlighting their charms.
Those were the days, my friends... when pleasures were affordable, reliable were unstintedly accorded in a true spirit of give-and-take, so have I been told...
AT
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