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Today, I was sitting and waiting for my turn at a local barber saloon, and I heard an interesting advertisement on the radio which was going on there.
In India and many oriental countries, pre-marital sex is a taboo. Its good as well as bad. Society looks down on this. It might be very difficult for western societies to understand this concept, but in India, its considered as a virtue. If you think the positive side of this taboo, and Indian society is still family oriented, albeit its slowly changing, you will find lot of good things in this taboo. You need to see the effect it has on the family structure, love etc etc. That’s a different topic altogether.
The advertisement I heard was about Safe Sex. Pre-marital or post-marital, that’s the secondary issue here.
Picturise this: “An young adult, living with his parents, his married brother and his family, as most of the Indians still live with their families till they marry, many times even after their marriages, the do. The sister-in-law is the new “woman” of the house, slowly taking over all the responsibility of the family. What the mother of the young man was doing for him, now his sister-in-law does. Its a common practice in India.
The young man stammers and tells his sister-in-law, not to take his jeans for a wash, as he has a condom in the pockets, which his sister-in-law to know as it will indicate that he has been having pre-marital sex. The maid, is pointing the sister-in-law towards the condom, where as sister-in-law is affectionately admonishing, the young man, about the Motor Bike keys she has found in the pockets of his jeans, as she thinks, its dangerous for him to take the bike out.
Finally sister-in-law says: Its better to have a safer pre-marital sex using condom than having unsafe one without it. And she doesn’t have problem with her young brother-in-law having pre-marital sex as long as he uses condom. “
I really can not convey the whole mood, feeling of hearing a beautifully done, well delivered radio ad which is socially relevant.
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