Of Sex and Us...

Dear Shade , what about some sex ? Come on, lets delve into the pool of this tabooed issue.A burning flame of desire braving the gusts of the scruples of rectitude and diffidence.. is that what its all about ? The war between morality and passion is on --- and no one has won it yet !! Well, I am definitely not interested to incite this gory conflict. But hold on Shade, I thought the subject was tabooed. Oooff ! did I miss out the graffiti around, the TV ad , the morning newspaper , the chartbuster video… all oozing with sex ? We breathe sex and say hush hush. We just refuse to accept the reality. I guess, accepting the reality is the biggest taboo. Broad daylight or sultry nights, our hungry eyes savour the nakedness, the blatancy all around. Do we complain ? Whoever does is a sissy , isn’t it ? There’s no denying the fact that we are captivated by sex more than anything else. But honey, take some time to ponder. At least introspect. Its one of the deepest passions of a human being which is at stake. The most subtle of human feelings has fast become a commodity. Are we so immaculate in selling ourselves, that we brazenly relish our core feelings being auctioned off ? I leave it as a question. Hopefully a rhetoric one.

But Shade, what about the eternal conflict between morality and sex ? Morality is pesonal. I say this, because individuals define ‘morality’ by what is the personal interpretation of a few universal virtues. Gays and lesbians are few perverted maniacs to me. Given a chance I’d spank them to set them right. But, you think Elton John thinks the same way ? A person encounters this conflict only when his indulgence in sex violates his values.So, the formation of ones core values is what stings you or takes the sting out at those times. Same is the case with sex before tying the nupital knot in our society. Someone ends her life for it while others don’t give it a damn.Its personal.

There are lechers and then there are purists. However, we, the middle rung, are the most troubled with this. Reason ? Our mercurial thought process. Tomorrow I’d die for a cause which now I think is insane. The boundary of our acceptance is gradually thinning out.. thanks to the nascent overtness in the society. As we become more ‘daring’ and ‘carefree’--- we are redefining our values. What follows is a dilution of old beliefs. We accept more libido. And more of promiscuity passes off as ‘Cool’ and ‘funky’. Is there a line somewhere ? Something indelible ? I hope there is. Or else our posterity would find it difficult to distinguish sex from a can of coke.Lets give it a break Shade, for a moment lets close our eyes and think women as ‘beautiful’ instead of a ‘sex-bombs’. Lets fill our lungs with the fragrance of fresh air. The stale and vapid sex all around is nauseating. Put out the lights honey, let me sleep wrapped in your arms.