The Kama Sutra Diaries

Reviewed By  Ian Banks       February 23, 2014

 

Author  Sally Howard

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ISBN:                 9781857885897
Publisher:         Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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Encapsulated in this very comprehensive look at the other side of life in India there is much about the culture, the changes a country experiences as it moves ever so slowly towards a more modern way of life and the effects an ever changing emphasis on the sexual revolution of society is having on traditional culture.

You could almost say the ‘sexual revolution has come to India, except that that may almost seem far-fetched as this is the country that bought us the Kama Sutra, the bible of all young, and not so young, lovers wanting to experiment with sexual prowess.

But as Sally Howard has discovered  as she traveled the lenght and bredth of India, scratch the surface and all sorts of interesting things come to light.

In recent times we have seen anti-rape protests in New Delhi, much on the world news on the plight of homosexual males and the changing laws, rubbing shoulders with, in many areas the traditional worship of the ‘shivaling’, and marriages of young girls still arranged to the highest bidder.

Severe punishment is still carried out to young couples holding hands in public but on the other side of the blanket, the growth in porn sights and young men and women who visit them is rapidly growing as their fascination on sex and sexual matters grows.

As with all things in India there are more than two sides to everything with the notorious ‘red light districts’ almost equal to none other in the world, the harvesting of young women and men to cater to the demands, and the ever growing voice against prostitution becoming more strident on the world stage.

Fascinating as this look into the sexual side of India is, it also raises so many other issues on the changes taking place in ‘modern India’ and the effects this will have in the long term, on a culture which has survived much over the centuries’

Horrifyingly compelling Sally Howard has given us perhaps more than we ever wanted to know about sex in India as she and her friend Dimple, set out to explore the ‘Western sexual revolution’ which just happens to be very much alive and doing well in India.