No fun in condoms, ask Sakshi Maharaj

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Young blood

Let’s look back a little. A survey of this demography conducted in 2011 by MTV, a leading youth channel, had revealed that mobile phone bills constitute the second biggest form of expenditure in a youngster’s monthly budget. It also found that sexual awareness has picked up somewhere in the late teens and that most youth were sexually active by the time they turned 24. I have been asked to speak with my niece. She is casual about having lost her virginity last year to a boy who dumped her for an older, married woman he met on an online dating site and claims she and her friends are sexually active, but always keep the Ipill handy, just in case. What pisses her off is her mother’s sati savitri attitude, she says, adding with hostility, "Just because they don’t f*ck like most married Indian couples. I mean, as if my mom ever told me even about my chums. Have I ever seen her hold hands with baba? I mean she flipped the same way when she saw dada (her older brother, 22, studying engineering in Mysore) shagging, once! Sex is self-discovery!" We need to stop bullshitting about our sexual truth before it's too late. And what’s the point of not talking frankly about sex?

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