Of Acne and Ecstasy

I am assuming everyone is well aware of the new law being passed by the empirical Government of India making consensual sex between teenagers below the age of 18 as an act of utmost disregard and a bailable offence (Up to 3 years of imprisonment to be precise). Of all the myriad transgressions and regressions needing legal remedy the Cabinet approved this bill much to everyone's amusement.

 Today, we live in an age when teenagers like you and me (I am just over 20) have become sexually active at an earlier age. It’s understood of someone like a 'pervert chacha ' or even fathers -clothing out a totally perverse sense of 'Family Honor'; this particular bill wants to take into its ambit even the 18 year old.

 Yes, believe it or not, next time you plan to take your girl out to Manori Beach just to have some 'fun time' and constantly reminding yourself to carry a condom, THINK TWICE. You're about to break the law! 

 The state needs to stop intervening and retire from the 'Who’s the Daddy? ' Status because it festers the idea of sex as some hush- hush perversion which in fact needs to be dealt with by an open dialogue between parents and their children and a better understanding of what's going around.

 It is all due to the effect of the West that premarital sex has been on such a high. It is used just to calm your raging hormones right from the time you hit puberty. With the advent of cell phones, tablets and of course 3G in India, sex and porn had become more easily available to the masses; who doesn't want to be updated with the latest videos on Porn hub? Just go through a boy’s laptop and search for the folders named, ‘Games, FIFA, Finance, Important etc. ' and you'd fine terabytes of porn. 

 All in all I must admit I am still wondering in which age are our policy-makers living. At 18, a girl is believed to have developed the maturity to make decision of her own and know how to choose her partner for life but unfortunately just before that having sex for her is a crime? Not to forget these are the same men who with their own grubby paws and stubble faces are ready to grab the next butt available just to soothe their frenzied libidos.

 So now according to the law of the land the potential danger to India's social and economic stability is us than the corrupt politicians, corporate swindlers and of course the thugs. Aren’t we?

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