Yantra , Tantra, Mantra

It was with a mixture of shock and frankly arousal which I watched two Bengali films Gandu and Chatrak. Both have explicit sex scenes with rather mainstream actresses and I mean explicit ,unsimulated fellating(Gandu) and cunnilingus(Chatrak). The ladies in question are Rituparna Sen and Paoli Dam respectively.                                   Ms Sen sporting a tshirt of a diety associating with erotic hijinks                                          As attractive with her traditional clothing as without Im in half a mind to link them but I think my readers, the males anyway, are industrious enough to find these features online. When did Kerala cede its porno crown and when it was it taken up by Bengal? It is quite possibly due to the slo mo sexual revolution that has occured in India since the early 90s which rendered Keralas most popular export after its people, rubber and spices. Not to chatise the performers, they are doing what they can to make ends meet under

Before people dismiss me as a sexist,misygonist dinosaur- a relic of the Cold War as Judi Dench's M dimissed Pierce Brosnans James Bond in Golden Eye, please keep in mind my background- raised in a liberal semi Westernized family in India with two older sisters both of whom had swallowed the the feminist propaganda who "helpfully" regurgitated the same for yours truly. So to some extant I believed some aspects of feminism. Mostly gender equity feminism ,that a woman can do anything a man can do, atleast in the work environment. The preference of women for traditional gender roles in my dating experience which contradicted feminism did not at the time concern me at the time . Neither did my subconscious clamping down of my feminist credentials during courting. I just thought- well that's how it is. Behold the mystery of woman and all that gobbledygook.  I grew up admiring Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and (later) Sarah Palin and Angela Merkel. With this backgro