--- jane gillian rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I laugh a lot, everytime, I hear someone say > that the Westerners are influencing our Indian > culture in a negative way, although, for the last 60 > years, or more, till date, our Indian women and > children, have been tortured, abused, burnt, raped, > killed, sold into prostution etc. --------------------------- Dear Gillian,
I couldn't agree with you more. Averthanus is an immensely talented writer and I enjoy reading his articles. However, every now and then he seems to get a bee in his bonnet and laments about homosexuals and obscenely-clad women. Albert, another defender of Goan culture from the onslaught of Western debauchery, seems to have taken a hiatus. I was reading an interesting statistic in a Tamil magazine which stated almost 46% of Indian men, engaging in premarital sex, lose their virginity to prostitutes. That is a substantial number of men who have to subject themselves to the humiliation of engaging in illegal and unnecessarily furtive activities, for what should essentially be a positive first experience. Sex and sexuality are not Western concepts, nor do we need cultural ambassadors to interpret and define them for us. What we need is to get beyond our own repressive ideas and embrace a fuller understanding of human sexuality. Otherwise, we are heading for a lot more Scarlette Keelings in our midst. selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ