All Religions And Societies Have Tried To Suppress A Woman's Sexuality
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
8 December
2022
Recently,
Javed Akhtar said that if a man can have more than one wife, a woman should
also have the same right.
First of
all, this statement shouldn't be taken in a literal sense because how many
Muslim men have four wives? Hardly a few.
What he
meant was equality for both the genders in the matters of marriage, sex,
sexuality and sexual gratification.
More or
less all religions and societies have tried to suppress a woman's sexuality.
Whether Quran or Puran (there're 18 Puranas in Hinduism), all scriptures have
evaded the issue of female sexuality and her sexual gratification.
Righteous
Muslim men will get to screw most exquisite Houries in heaven who will
never lose their virginity even if screwed umpteenth times! But what about a
righteous Muslim woman? Will she also get well-hung, beef-cakes in heaven?
Markandeya Purana says that noble men will get Apsara in heaven but
doesn't mention whether a pious ( Hindu) woman will also get a battalion of
gigolos up there. Isn't a woman also a human? Doesn't she also have sexual
desires? In fact, according to Malang Vatsyayan's Kam Sutra, ' Striyanaam
Ashtagunah Kaamam Asti ' (a woman's sexual desire is eight times higher
than that of a man). And you're not giving her anything on earth and heaven to
satiate that! This is grossly unfair.
Here comes
the gender discrimination which must be fought and condemned by people like
Javed Akhtar. Yet, he's being chastised by all Janus-faced, self-proclaimed
custodians of (faux) morality.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam,
Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to
Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in
several languages including Persian.
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/religions-societies-woman-sexuality-/d/128588