Homosexuality

A recent debate in our country (India) to abolish prohibitive laws in favor of homosexuality took momentum. Very interestingly we do have historical evidences in our culture and religion similar to every other culture or religion around the world supporting this version of sexual preference.

IPC377 - Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with [imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Most of the time I wonder if laws were framed looking at the greater good of masses and sometimes overlook the genuine element left within human psyche. Not that I support the cause of homosexuals but looking back in to time one could not deny the existence of this diffraction since ages.

It repulses me to extreme and to certain extent scares me confronting these people. I some how discovered to my dismay that I started sympathizing the cause of lesbians after I happen to interact with someone who claimed a lesbian. Her outlook towards her chosen orientation is simple enough… that the sensuality and sensitivity a woman capable of understanding, desiring and reciprocating shall not be completely fulfilled by a testosterone driven man. This perhaps is right when we think of the relations between opposite sexes in an objective manner. Most of the time males subconsciously are guided by masculine tendencies that not only exhibit itself in protective behavior but also could hopelessly slide in to maniac obsession.

It is a goal that needs life time struggle for a male to keep a woman satiated in her emotional spiritual and intellectual thirst not losing an iota of patience. Very thank fully most of the women have the resilience to cope with any anomalies that they happen to face and we males survive our own misadventures.

Now coming towards gays I just could not fathom what makes them behave the way they behave. I feel uncomfortable even in touching a close friend for more than a necessary few seconds. Now delving deeper in to their mindset and empathizing with their emotional paradoxes is something over which one must not comment unless they fully understand that lies beneath.

But the physical part of the expression of their chosen live is intimidating enough for me to recoil in revulsion. Yet… if they can not help it let them live in peace.

Most of my friends asked me how I react to this step taken by judiciary in jettisoning this law. Perhaps everyone deserves and reserve the right to live the way they chose to live as long as their sentiments or actions hurt not others.

I congratulate those who confess what they are out in open and fight to retain their identity despite rejection and hatred from heterosexual people around. May they be granted freedom by law though society may not accept the verdict…

My question is to those who stay cryptic and ruin the lives of innocents who come their way. A bisexual husband who becomes a carrier for sexually transmitted disease or AIDS to his innocent wife and unborn kid, or a rich and powerful guy who exploits the helplessness of someone who is dependent of him for his social and survival needs. It is abundantly scary when one looks in to the possibility of this law’s exploitation in shielding their crimes over innocent people who are unaware or helpless.

How may of these hidden demons come out in the open and purify them in the sanctity of law??? They remain incognito in the comfort of their superiority and ability to exploit and cry wolf and run towards the umbrella of law when get caught after victimizing someone already.

If it is a physical anomaly over which nothing could be done, I suppose we must help those who are trying to find sense and direction their life. And those who completely realized that nothing could be done about their sexual orientation and hence come out open and exercise their rights need our acceptance.

If it is an emotional paradox and if they are willing to undergo counseling, it will be our social responsibility to help these people in retrieving and retain their poise. For these people are found in our won vicinity and probably families.

But to those who deliberately become deviant and remain wolves in sheep’s cloth… I feel the judiciary must look deep in to possibilities and consolidate the law and meet these criminals with lethal force…