Gaysi: The Gay Desi - Yes, we're legal!

This recent post on Gaysi by Chicklet has got me thinking about a conversation I had some time ago with a very good friend of mine. We were generally chitty-chatting about our current partners (yes…shoot me), when somewhat out of context she remarked – “At least I know with her all can be sorted in bed”.

Now I consider myself a very sexual person. Yes, the sorts who regard sexual chemistry much higher than…let’s say one’s intellectualness. But I do believe that matters of importance….issues which require serious attention…should to be sorted outside the bed room and not init.

The sole reason being; there’s no real communication (sorry Missy, Oooosss and aahsss don’t exactly fall under this category). A discussion over sex is more like turning a blind eye and telling the heart “Aal izz well”. Yet many of us continue to follow this trend of replacing conversation with sex.

Fucked up no? And yours truly at times is no different.

Anyway without beating around the bush (no pun intended), tell me Ladies and let’s be honest here how many of you out there use sex as way of getting out of serious one-on-one talk with their partner. Or who’s been in a situation where in their partner’s response to “We need to talk!” has only ended up in pinning the other in bed.

* Note : Contains Explicit Sexual Content

Zarina landed at Tokyo’s international airport and went straight to the hotel near the convention center. She had arrived two days before the opening of the trade fair in order to catch her breath and allow adequate time for setting up Zylo’s booth for the Japan Art Expo.

Priya, her assistant, was due to arrive in a few hours. If she wasn’t too tired, thought Zarina, they could go out for a glass of wine and sushi. Zarina had been craving real sushi the whole way to Japan.

Zarina suddenly felt a bit nervous. She and Priya were alone together in Tokyo. Zarina had been wildly attracted to Priya from the moment she had laid eyes on her. She had never wanted to hire her, but her business partner had insisted. Priya came from a rich, South Bombay family. She had married even richer. Her in-laws were textile barons.

Zarina was a self-made person and she was somewhat disdainful of anyone who had had easy street. Her partner argued that Priya’s social contacts would give them an in to the big families. Ten months later that hadn’t happened. Priya was incapable of pitching anything to anyone. But she was a dedicated and sincere worker who was a simple, down-to- earth girl at heart. Zarina had become quite fond of her.

At exactly 7.05pm the phone rang. It was Priya. She had just checked in.

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“Wet Wednesdays”- that’s what the series of weekly erotic stories are going to be called.

Last Wednesday Gaysi published it’s first erotic story, after 75 posts that came before it. Suddenly we were accused of publishing erotica to gain more search engine traffic. We were accused of publishing “filth” and of declaring that fairy tale ideas of romance were not cool and were dead.

Really? I consider my love story with The Girl a fairy tale romance. And let me tell you, there was a lot of sex in that love story. (There still is). But what I don’t understand is why people think that sex without love, between two consenting adults, is filthy. Why is it cheap or gross? While I don’t think that anyone having sex is being “cool” or “happening”, I also  don’t think that anyone NOT having sex is “cool” or “happening”. Sex is just that – sex.

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A reader’s reply to yesterday’s published post.

It is shocking to see the number of advertisements floating around these days which portray women as desired objects and man as consumer, directly or in-directly. According to these advertisements the Man is the hunter, woman the hunted. Man the voyeur, woman the victim. At times some of these women advertisements are so over the top, that it makes it hard for the whole family to sit together and watch television. And sadly, there is no one to question the present market-and-media ethics that turns women’s bodies into consumer objects?

I don’t agree with that because there are plenty of new advertisements that work the other way. Look at Carl Zeiss ads, AXE ads, Kamasutra (get unbuttoned) ads. Each of these portray men as the objects that need to use the products in question to attract women. The last one in particular showed a lot of men in unbuttoned shirts with perfect bodies going about their daily chores. If anything, I take objection to fairness creams that insist that only fair skin can produce success at the work place and attract men’s attention. But that is a problem with the product itself.

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It is shocking to see the number of advertisements floating around these days which portray women as desired objects and man as consumer, directly or in-directly. According to these advertisements the Man is the hunter, woman the hunted. Man the voyeur, woman the victim. At times some of these women advertisements are so over the top, that it makes it hard for the whole family to sit together and watch television. And sadly, there is no one to question the present market-and-media ethics that turns women’s bodies into consumer objects?

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[Guest Author : Saakshi O. Juneja]

“If you are above the age of 18, a male and seeking a job that combines work with pleasure, here is an unusual opening that promises a combination of both. The post of a condom tester is up for grabs as Durex, one of the world’s largest condom manufacturer has announced plans to recruit Indian males above the age of 18 to test their products. [Link]

Interesting. Encouraging. But sexist, without doubt.

My annoyance with the above ‘modern’ initiative is with the fact that women have been so easily excluded from Durex’s consumer involvement programme. This to me is nothing but just another example of what our society perceives is a woman’s worth in matters related to S-E-X: The man is in charge of the sexual act, the woman is merely the means to reach an orgasm.

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