There is always sense of curiosity to discover and discuss each others’ sexual secrets and desires, but at the same time we all feel the need to protect and not share our secrets however good or bad they may be. Some harbor feeling of jealousy to see their friends and neighbors getting their satisfying fair share, while some may decide to take a leaf or two out it and make their withered sexual life fresh and frolicking!
Outlook Magazine and Durex (makers of Moods) together have been conducting annual survey to understand and discover the sexual behavior, thirst, kinks, fetishes, and satisfaction levels in the land of Vatsayayana. This year a structured questionnaire was presented to a random selection of 1,212 respondents across 12 cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Jaipur, Kochi, Patna, Ahmedabad and Ludhiana. The respondents included an equal number of men and women in the 30-45 age group, across Socio Economy Class A, B and C. The survey has an error margin of 2.8 %.
I have no idea why the decided to choose this age-group and why only these cities. 1,212 out of 1.2 billion is micro-fraction to pain(t) sexual landscape of the country. But now let us get back to the survey findings.
Were Indians in their mid-life sexually emaciated or were they discovering their teenage libido again? What is our Gross Sexual Satisfaction Index (GSSI) aka Vatsyayana Index (VI)? Did our folks measure Below Libido Line (BLL)? How did we fare? What did the survey discover?
A few years back a newspaper article claimed sewage drains at a SEZ in Bangalore was clogged with used condoms. Such is the libido of our youth that turns work places into bedrooms. With that history as a backdrop, it is not hard to trust the survey results. There is a dramatic shift in outlook, approach, attitude and sexual appetite. The Indian population seems to be self-sufficient, self-helping and fulfilled in the department of sexual pleasure. The survey responses show sex is no more a taboo and is freely traded like a commodity, easily accessible for people in the marriage, without a marriage and outside the marriage. Indians are reaching the Titillating Point.
The survey has indicated that middle-aged Indians are open to sexual experimentation like never before, or at least more than five years ago—with 74 per cent of men and 67.7 per cent of women surveyed responding in the affirmative. Dr Malhotra believes this has to do with the environment we inhabit today, with the media explosion, sexually suggestive advertising, comedy shows with sexual connotations, increasing depiction of sexual acts in films and media, easy internet access—with pornographic sites available at the click of a mouse. The sensitive area of sex is open to choice, exhibitionism, experimentation and exploitation. But is it still a conversation point?
Here are a few leaves from the survey
Satisfaction inside or outside: 93.9% of respondents said they were “satisfied”
or even “very satisfied” – are they satisfied in their relationship or outside
their relationship?
Its action time: 33% of them get action every other day, while 25% get action
once in three days - We seem to be working out in the bed room more than
sweating it out at the gym.
Swing along the same coast: 91% say there is no decline in sexual action at God’s Own Country (Kochi, Kerala), while 90% in Ahmedabad say there is a decline –Ahmedabad is definitely has dried up libido. Should we blame Mr. Modi? Should Viagra become a part of the PDS system? Come on citizen roll-up your everything now!
Sexually satisfied also means Infidelity: Delhi tops the cities and remains the
most Sexually satisfied city, while Ludhiana, the hosiery and imported car capital
of the country, a hotbed of extramarital indulgences.
Funtasies: 71% of the population is interested to experiment, 50% want to
discuss each other’s fantasies, and close to 36% of them engage in oral sex, while
23% is into anal and 8% engage in same sex love. – Guys, aren’t we turning
carniwhorous?
Not just friends, but friends with benefits: 48.4% of respondents had sex with
their friends– Next time your partner goes out with a friend, you know
where it is headed!
Who is ready for experimentation? 99% in Kochi, 98% in Ahmedabad and 96% in Kolkata are more open to sexual experimentation now that they were five years ago. Should we rename Ahmedabad to Ahbedabad?
New avenues for sex: 37% of respondents in Jaipur have had cyber-sex with
unknown people, while non have done so in Kochi and Mumbai. 33.7% used
social media like Twitter, Facebook to find sexual partners. So, is it Pink city or
Kink city?
Indians seems to know how to get it, where to get it, when to get it and how to make it a mutually satisfying experience. Urban mobility, changing nature of work and, very significantly, the lessening of stigma (at least in some circles) on women having unconventional relationships, is also an important context in this regard. Women no longer are stuck in melancholic-marriages, people swing, and sex is traded like never before outside their marriage and without the need for marriage. Sex suddenly more a recreation than procreational!
If men are genetically pre-dispose to polygamy, women are actively reshaping re-shaping India’s sexual drive? Women! Women! Women! The author says, “And my observation is that women have much richer sex lives and make astoundingly good sex partners in their late thirties and early forties. Not only are they at their sexual peak, but they have now learned, through experience, how to play the male instrument—and I mean the entire body—the way a seasoned jazz musician knows his saxophone.
“India may be the impotence capital of the world, more than 50% of men over 40 suffer from impotence,” says Dr Sudhakar Krishnamurthi, Andrologist. If this is true then some people have blatantly lied on this survey. So when the survey comes back reporting that 40 per cent and 50 per cent of people are very satisfied or satisfied with their sex lives, one has to ask, who are these people? And why then do the figures for other questions posed to the same respondents suggest otherwise? Are we then lying about our sex lives, even in the privacy of anonymous surveys? Is Delhi the most sexually satisfied city? Well, Delhiites are known to be big talkers, this fits the prototype.
At the end of the survey, should you feel the middle-aged Indians are having a fucking good time or are they fucking the survey big time? The jury is you and you ask yourself it is good, bad or ugly! When Woody Allen was asked if sex was dirty, he responded, “Only when it is done right! So do it right and without a fright!
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