In fact, India had the teen-marriage system for thousands of
years. This acted as a safety mechanism. But, after the
British left in 1947, the age limit was jacked up to 18 for
girls and 21 for boys.
The problem was no other alternative system was put in
place. This led to disasterous behaviour by indian teens.
Since, indian politicians hate the dating-system, the only
other alternative is to bring back teen-marriage, reduce the
marriage age to 16 for girls and 18 for boys.
Don't you think the Republicans in the US, who hate teen
pregancies would support that idea?
--- Share Long wrote:
A tantric teacher David Deida once told a group that in ancient times wise
cultures had a system whereby widowed or single postmenopausal women
initiated the young men of the tribe into the ahem love making arts. Seems
like a win win to me (-:
From: Jason
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 5:58 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] India needs early marriage system or dating system?
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We want to have the best of two worlds
By V P Thomson Piravom , 28th December 2012 11:47 PM
Muvattupuzha, our taluk's capital town, witnessed a bizarre
incident a few months ago. A 18-year-old girl was forcibly
hugged and kissed by a young man in broad daylight on the
public road. Being caught totally off guard, the girl
screamed for help. Seeing that a beautiful young lady was
crying for help the onlookers who normally turn a blind eye
to road accident victims sprang to action and the miscreant
was instantly apprehended. Some over-smart Samaritans
smacked the boy to pulp to prove a point to the hapless
girl. Needless to say, the prey and the predator were both
taken to the nearby police station.
The first question darted to the girl by the police
inspector was, Why donât you dress decently? The plumb
girl was wearing a pair of skinny jeans and a low cut top
that liberally exposed her cleavage. Incidentally she was on
her way to a job interview. Guilt ridden, the boy admitted
he couldn't get a grip of himself and just went berserk on
seeing her in that attire. The boy and girl were travelling
in the same bus but he just freaked out at her sight and
though bound elsewhere, he alighted at the same stop where
the girl got out. And then, the unimaginable thing in the
Indian circumstances happened. The boy was put behind bars
and the girl was made to wait at the police station until
her elder brother came to take her home. The inspector
admonished her brother, Be advised, she needs to get
dressed properly in future. After all, indecent
exposure is
a criminal offence, isn't it?
Of late, it is lamented by one and all that, harassment of
women has touched an all-time high.The recent New Delhi gang
rape has triggered widespread outrage. The fact is that we
are trying to blindly ape the West in everything as a show
of keeping abreast with changed times. Sadly, we the Indians
are under the wrong notion that we can't lag behind the West
and need to catch up with them in every respect, be it in
food or clothes because that is what is called progress.The
West has got a dating system to have a first hand knowledge
of the subtle nuances of man-woman relationship. Isn't it
true that the Indian psyche still can't stand the sight of a
girl with her male friend at odd hours? The Indian male
still wants an untouched virgin as his wife.
When the testosterone levels of the young people are about
to break the barriers of self- control, sanity and civility
just go by the board and the primal instincts avariciously
take the centrestage. It is ridiculous to assume that we can
permanently arrest the onslaught of hormone revolution by
rules and regulations. Never judge a book by its cover. We
need to delve deep down. We either go back to the old days
of child marriages (Of course, with timely innovations and a
tight leash on population explosion), or as Kushboo
suggested, let us have a healthy taboo-free pre-marital sex
culture. The irony is, we want to have the best of two
worlds. It is nothing but hypocrisy at its best, to say the
least.
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