IT-Indian Sex Survey-2008

Published by: India Today Group Digital

Published: Dec. 1, 2008 - 33 Pages

Table of Contents

1. Sexy Publics

Such surveys identify and create not sexy secrets but ‘sexy publics’. They take the mundane and secret aspects of sexuality and propel them before our gaze in a very public forum.

2. Creative Pursuits

The days of staid sex are over. Kink is the new sexual think as urban Indians find that the bedroom can become an arena for role-playing, with almost 20 per cent giving it a thumbs up.

3. Calmasutra

Women have a knack of keeping their sexuality a secret

Whoever said that India was a nation of prudes needs to go through the India Today-AC Nielsen ORG MARG sex survey to realise that the modern woman’s sexuality is now almost completely released from the Victorian prudery that dogged the post-Independence generation. Women now figure that they can do just anything they want, out of bed or in it. Sex in the city is curiously liberated, and if you thought you knew what women were thinking, you probably got it wrong.

4. Straight from the heart

Men are moving out of the closet they had hidden in. A surprising 16 per cent admit they have had sex with men, mostly friends. Clearly, heterosexuality is not the only lifestyle choice.

5. Alternative destination

Hyderabad is the least homophobic and most sexually tolerant of Indian cities, partly because of its multicultural heritage

Hyderabad, India’s second largest city, has won more than 15 firsts in the INDIA TODAY-AC Nielsen-ORG MARG sex survey, 2008, thus confirming that it is unarguably the sex capital of India.

During the reign of the Nizams (1724-1948), Hyderabad was prosperous. Sex was celebrated in this time, and polygamy and alternative sexuality, including homosexuality and paedophilia were accepted as a part of life.

6. Those close encounters

Conjugal exclusivity has long been the Indian’s sole mode of sexual expression. Clearly though, it’s not a natural choice with as many as 41 per cent of men admitting they were unfaithful.

Icons of romance in India are rarely monogamous and married: the Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan for a favoured wife though he had two others; Krishna’s vehicle of ultimate love was his uncle’s wife, Radha. In contrast to multiple systems of organising marriage and sexuality that were (and still are) prevalent in India, adultery as a marital offence is a relatively new experiment whose boundaries are being tried.

7. Priced pleasure

In a country where sex is still talked about in hushed tones, sex at a cost is rampant, with nearly one in every five men having visited a prostitute at least once

8. Silence of the lambs

Incest and other forms of sexual abuse of a child are far more common than we assume. But it is also a shame that dares not speak its name.

Throughout history and everywhere in the world, societies have struggled with the issue of incest. I know of no society that does not prohibit sexual activity between family members, although the definition of “relative” varies.

9. Minority report

Sweet 16 and never been kissed? That was yesterday. Today’s adolescents are forging beyond foreplay.

Sweet 16 and never been kissed? That was yesterday. The shifting contours of the post-globalisation family has created the New Teen. Brought up on an untested diet of western soap operas, cable TV and increasingly globalised values, those under 18, the age of consent, are defying every norm that has bound them for thousands of years.

10. Boogie nights

Indian women discover triple X technology usually in their 20s but make up for lost time with one in 10 wanting to star in her very own dirty movie. Say hello to the domestic sex goddess.

11. Methodology

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