Once I read somewhere, “Professional credibility is like virginity, once you lost it you never get it back.”
But during this disguised Behenjis and Bhai-sahibs era, the author has to think of some other simile. I was reading a leading weekly. As the sun comes out and the darkness has to hide in a corner till the evening returns, same was happening with me.
I often read surveys and different opinion polls. These opinion polls made me accept that India is really changing. I almost believed that today guys don’t care whether their bride /partner is a virgin or not. They proclaim proudly if I can have a past life, so can she! But some anti hero is always out there in one form or another to jolt me out of my reverie. The guys are refusing to grow up. Nothing beats the feeling to be the first!
It’s not one of my wistful thinking, but I chanced upon an article on “Hymenoplasty.” They introduced it something like this, “Hymenoplasty (reconstruction of the hymen) can repair the hymen as if nothing ever occurred.” Wow! Kudos to the ostrich mentality of both the species of this earth.
I thought the guys have reconciled with the fact that what they are getting into. But no, some males savor the conquests! So this surgery to fool them entirely and massaging their ego! Due to them the business of such surgeons are burgeoning.
But these are not the issues. What prompts me to write this post was, do we have to resort to cheating and forgery to establish the foundation of a solid, loving and lifelong relationship? If we place such a high virtue on virginity then why not take hold of our bio-chemical needs? Why fooling around? And if we like what we are doing then why not accept it and be comfortable? What is the need to be a Sati-Savitri, if you can’t be one? But it seems we Indians alone can’t lay claim to the copyright to hypocrisy. We have so many counterparts. The surgeons specializing in hymenoplasty are spread all over the world.
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