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Do We All Participate in Rape Culture? || Acharya Prashant (2024)
Acharya Prashant
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7/3/2025
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We don't really look at the woman as a human being, we look at her as her physical identity,
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we have lenses of sex and gender.
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It is the woman-ness that matters more to us and matters not in any innocuous sense, matters
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in a rather disturbing sense, it is even in a victim, we fail to see the human being.
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The sexual lenses are always on.
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And it is quite pathetic what that tells about the seer, the looker.
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It is the female body, it is the female body that catches our attention, not the loss of
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a precious human life.
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Because the gaze is so sexual, it no more remains a surprise, gruesome acts of are so frequent
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in our country.
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No crime happens in isolation.
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The very social gaze is sexual.
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It is not that one particular wild individual just dropped in from somewhere and committed
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the crime.
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No.
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The general society is the breeding ground.
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what you call as the common man, the normal social person provides the ecology, the environment
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in which wider, deeper and very violent sexual crimes then manifest.
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It has to be remembered that the perpetrator of the crime is a part of the larger society.
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Though when there are protests, we want to believe that the larger society is blameless and all
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the blame has to fall on one single individual or a few of them.
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That is not how the thing really is.
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When these violent explosions occur, they point at something much more deeper and much more
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general and widespread.
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So, we want to exonerate ourselves, we want to say we are all good civilized social people
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and we condemn these acts.
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I am afraid that is an alibi that is run out of its defense.
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How long will we keep saying that we are all decent people?
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From where is all the indecency coming then?
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And if you look at the culprits, they come from all state of the society.
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It is not always some landless laborer or truck driver.
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It could be a rich man, it could be a leader, it could be a government employee, it could
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be a businessman, it could be a teenager, remember the Nirbhaya case, or it could be a really
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old god man.
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Yes.
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They come from all places and in all kinds of clothing.
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It is a wider social phenomena which we are not ready to acknowledge.
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Because if we acknowledge that would be tantamount to accepting our own culpability.
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I will come to who we are and how we are.
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And from that, it should be possible to see why culprits spring up from the social soil,
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the social springboard every now and then.
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You see who are we?
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You are a teenager, you said you are a political science student, right?
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Yes sir.
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Right.
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What does your batch in general want?
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Don't give me specifics.
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What do people want from their future?
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Sir, they want a UPSC job and then a big villa and then want to get married.
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You see that's the social philosophy.
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I want a life in which I will be able to enjoy all the goodies.
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And given the way we have evolved the human body, both the sexes principally the male counts
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the female body amongst the foremost goodies of life.
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Yes.
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From a very young age, you are indoctrinated into believing that life exists so that it
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can be relished.
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What is the purpose of life?
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Have as many opportunities of pleasure as possible.
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And to a young man, when I say young I don't mean 15 only, even 45 is young.
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As long as you have sufficient testosterone, in some way you are young.
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To a young man, it's about having pleasure and the female body by dint of evolution is a
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very important source of pleasure.
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Very important.
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Now if you can have that pleasure in a legal way, in a safe and clean way, wonderful.
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That safe and clean way is by way of marriage, by way of marriage.
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But if you cannot have it that way, then there would always be, a lot of people will be prepared
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to act the victim in their own eyes and attack women.
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They say, you see, having pleasure is my birthright.
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And I am not able to get a sufficient quantity of pleasure.
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Everybody is having fun.
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Why should I be deprived?
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Look at that one.
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Look at that one.
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If you all are making merry, why should I be a loser?
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And if he stays with this thought for long, it will most probably turn into some kind of
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criminal aggression.
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Have you heard of the term incel?
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No, it's an involuntary celibate.
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So the man says, I am a victim, I am an involuntary celibate, I want to have sex.
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But women are not giving me enough opportunities.
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So without my willingness, I have been turned into a celibate.
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I am a involuntary celibate.
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And women are blamed.
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You see, the whole world owes me pleasure.
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And when it comes to sexual pleasure, it's the women who owe me a lot.
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And if the women won't offer me pleasure, I'll grab it, snatch it, loot it, plunder it,
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kill for it.
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Because we all exist just to have pleasure, that's what we have been indoctrinated in, no?
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Study so that you can get some kind of a plum job.
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And if you have a plum job, you'll probably get a plum girl as well.
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Loads of money and sex coming your way.
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Right?
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What else is there?
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What else is there?
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Ram Krishna Paramhans, that great saint, used to say, that for the common man there are only
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two objectives, Kanchan and Kamini.
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And even these two are intertwined.
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Money and sex, Kanchan is gold, Kamini is a lucrative girl, you get it?
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When the entire philosophy, the entire social philosophy is that life exists for the sake
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of pleasure, then those who find themselves deprived of pleasure will go to any extent based
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on the same philosophy.
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Right?
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If you can buy great food, buy it.
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But if you are unable to buy great food, snatch it.
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And that's the reason why you require a powerful law and order system and enforcement machinery.
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Because the very philosophy necessitates it.
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Philosophy says you must have pleasure.
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But not everybody will get equal chances at pleasure.
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So what will the deprived ones do?
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They will try to break the law.
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They will say you know, we too must have it, but we are not getting a fair chance.
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We are victims, we are incels.
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So we will do something extraordinary.
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The underlying philosophy is the same.
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The honest man, the so-called honest man earns honestly so that he can consume.
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The center of the so-called honest man and the plunderer.
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I want to leave you with this question.
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Is it any different?
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We are supposed to believe that the honest man and the dishonest man are poles apart.
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I am asking are they?
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Because in the Gita or Sri Krishna verse that we want to know the center of a person.
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So let us try to see what all his actions are for.
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If you want to see the center a person is operating from, see the desire that his actions are supposed
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to fulfill.
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So I am an honest man, I am supposedly an honest man and I am working so that I will
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get a fat salary and then I will consume.
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So what is the end of my honesty?
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Consumption.
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And I am a thief, a robber, I am a thief, I am a robber.
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And I commit robbery so that I can, what is the end of all my lawlessness, consumption.
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Now according to Krishna, if both of them are working towards the end of consumption,
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they both are much the same at their center.
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Everybody is the same.
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I am not going to the absurd extent of saying that everybody is a rapist or a murderer.
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But please try to understand what I am trying to say.
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Such people, if they are not lawbreakers, it is only because of fear.
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Otherwise our general life philosophy is such that each one of us is being compelled to consume
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at whatever cost possible.
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Just that when you are threatened with punishment, then you try to desist somehow or find your way
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around the law.
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Right now there are no laws on raping the earth.
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Right now there is no severe punishment being mitted out.
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If you rape the earth, see everybody is raping the earth.
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The most respectable people are at the vanguard of the rape of earth.
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The day there is some law that starts punishing such rape, a lot of honorable people would withdraw.
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But they are withdrawing only because of fear of punishment.
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If there is no fear, they will rape the earth.
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You know of the whole climate change phenomena.
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You know it comes from the rape of the planet.
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You know how all the species are getting extinct.
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You know of biodiversity loss.
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You know of the various ecological disasters.
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You know how they can be very literally called as the rape of the planet.
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And the most respectable people are at the forefront committing such rape, are they not?
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Because this rape is enmeshed in our general philosophy, in our general thought.
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Remove all fear of punishment and then look at the lawlessness that will rage on the streets.
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There are those who are so afraid that they won't take the law in their hands.
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And there are those who are so smart that they break the law and yet don't get caught.
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And then there is the third category that commits a crime and also gets caught.
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These are the ones we denounce as rape.
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Some estimates say that the number of unreported cases in India is probably up to 40 times more
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than what is reported.
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And probably a majority of the unreported cases are taking place within the household.
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Some 89%.
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And majority of the cases taking place within the household are taking place on the conjugal
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bed.
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It is married to the husband, the wife.
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And the husband is a very respectable fellow I tell you, is he not?
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He could be a college professor.
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He could be a white collared worker.
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He could be a member of the parliament.
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He could be a police officer.
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He might be the recipient of some national award even.
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So, rape is all prevalent, obviously those who inflict that kind of suffering on a human
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being on a fellow human being must be caught and punished as harshly as possible.
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But let that not comfort us into believing that are isolated incidences.
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As long as there is the philosophy of pleasure at whatever cost, rape in all its forms will
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keep happening.
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And if you do not find happening somewhere, chances are either the law is very strict or
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the chaps are too smart.
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Law does not need to be just the social law.
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It could even be the religious law.
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If you do all those bad things, then you will rot in hell.
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And that makes the man so terrified, he starts calling all the women as his sisters.
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It starts relying on , rather.
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All women are my sisters except the , we know of the extent of internet data that
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is just , what does that tell you of that the need to consume the female body.
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To some extent that need is biological, but to a much greater extent that need is artificially
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bloated by the general philosophy of the day.
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You exist to consume, there is a beautiful couplet by Saint Kabir comes to my mind.
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He says, you know, it is a comparison between the biological urge to have sex versus the social
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thought, the social construct of sex.
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He says, Kami Kutta Teen Din Anatar Rahe Udaas, he says and Kutta here stands for the biological
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kingdom, the animal kingdom, the animal kingdom, all the living beings except man.
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He says, the dog becomes sexually active only in its period of heat.
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And that period does not last long, apart from that period the dog remains indifferent to
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the matter of sex.
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A Kami Nar Kutta Sada Chaitu Bara Maas, Kami Kutta Teen Din Anatar Rahe Udaas, Kami Nar Kutta
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Sada Chaitu Bara Maas, man is a dog throughout the year, wagging his tongue, sniffing.
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The rear sides of possible victims, it is not biological, it is not biological, biological
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is three days, euphemistically three days, remaining 362 days is social, it is about what
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you are being taught, it is not really your bodily urge, it is a mental thing.
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This sex that we want so much in abundance is not so much a need of the body, it is a need
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of the mind.
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Because we are being constantly told, this sex is important, you must have pleasure and the
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female body is a great source of pleasure.
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Look at how we are sexualizing the female body constantly.
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Go to media, social media, especially social media, even if you go in a normal way, in an
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asexual way, spend 10 minutes on Instagram and your thoughts would turn in a sexual direction.
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You are being forcibly sexually energized, activated, triggered, it is a thought.
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Unless we change that thought, I am afraid we will have to live through the pain of seeing
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more such incidents, anything more on that?
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