IS THE BLUE NET GRADUALLY GROOMING US INTO A COUNTRY OF SEX -STARVED ROBOTS???

ALI PETER JOHN

The Lockdown has been an opportunity to open my eyes to things that they have not had the time or the inclination to see . It has also opened the eyes of my heart and my mind to understand issues , relationships , values , politics , my country , its leaders , religion and above all the media and how the social media has grown and how it is being used and misused by various interests .It has been the first time that I was forced to be a slave to my mobile as and I don't think I have a right to complain ,because it is this small mobile that has come to my rescue during these troubled times when a tiny virus has brought the world on its knees .

It is through this mobile that I have been seeing the world and even that part of the world I had never had the opportunity or the privilege to know .It is during this re-discovery of the world that I came across a big blue and ugly world which I was entirely unaware of . It was the world of the net where an endless spew of sex films with Indian content were being shown to an audience which was exposed I think to this kind of "cinema "for the first time .Call me an old foggy or an outdated man or whatever name can suit me , but I must say that I was caught in a dangerous trap .

On the third day , I felt I was getting addicted to these dirty two and three minute films with a lot of skin show and the act of making love shown in the most blatant ways and leaving very little or nothing to the imagination . I was in danger of becoming a slave of these films and I wondered what they could do to the mental and physical health of men , women and children who were far far younger than me and who were now reduced to being idle minds in the devil's workshop which their homes had been turned into by the lockdown. On the fourth day of my "addiction " I was convinced at these films could tempt threaten and even "convert" popes, pandits, pundits, philosophers , saints, maulanas and the most holy of holies if they were human into sexperts of a lower order ...

What is the script of an usual sex film like this? Where is the need for a script when all it needs for a man and a woman of any age and belonging to any community and related to each other in any way have to just meet and without any rhyme or reason have to get sexually aroused and strongly be attracted towards each other and fall into the waiting arms of each other and then start kissing passionately as if there was no tomorrow and fall on the waiting bed , sometimes with the man on top and sometimes the woman ? And is there any need for dialogue? No , where is the need for something as banal as dialogue when action is to say everything ? And even if there is some dialogue , there is some very stupid words exchange by the two great and only characters in the highly "spiritual "scene ? How come all the characters whatever and whoever they are playing in a particular video are lying on the same kind of beds and even with identical bed sheets and pillows and sometimes even found in the same kind of rooms ? The homes of the characters are not like the homes found in apartments or flats in a suburb or a city , but look like holiday homes on a beach .

They have huge spacious drawing rooms and the only a striking thing in the home is a large bed where all the action is to take place .In very rare cases is there a wardrobe ,a cloak room ,a kitchen or a mini bar and sometimes a mandir .The changing of days is irritatingly and repeatedly shown by the appearance and disappearance of the moon and the rising of the sun and the passing of traffic on the roads .

And who in the good God's name are the sex -starved and sex-frustrated and sex- sick characters in these goddamn films ? They are any one , from the lonely and frustrated wife at home and even the young mother , the window and mother -in-law .They are the domestic helps and ayahs who have no other work but to attract the young man at home , sexually .In most cases and shockingly ,they are young and middle aged women and male teacher who give tuitions at home and trap young boys to fulfill their sexual desire .

They are the young women who delivery milk , vegetables and fish from door to door. And among men there are bosses , managers , supervisors, doctors, politicians and minister and even senior police officer who blackmail young women and down to electrical fitters and every day workers who force themselves on school girls to living alone at home when their parents are away .The last blessed video I saw blew my brains to the wall next to me .It was about a middle age teacher trying her worst to blackmail an browbeat her handsome young school going male student to go to bed with her. The innocent boy keeps resisting her vampish moves , but she keeps making his life miserable with her threats and the video ends. And so does my bout with these blue as blue can be gutterish films . Am I sounding angry ? Who am I get angry ? it is for all those who claim to be the protectors of society and ultimately the country to try and arrest this epidemic of blue as blue films before they can become a blot on the future of this country which has always taken pride in its "parampara", "sabhyaata ",and "shaaleentaa"?

The culprits (what else does one call them ?) Who are spreading this wild sex wave are Amazon Prime Video, ALT Balaji ,Ullu app, Kooku app , Poku app , MX players and the number of these Apps only keep growing because the poison they are dishing out is being lapped up by the innocent masses who have very little to depend on for their entertainment .Will anyone in all their power have the time to do something to prevent this curse from growing into a gangrene that can kill .

PS: Years ago , the great and bold Indian writer Khushwant Singh wrote about how in India people kept their clothes on while making love .I wonder what Sardar Khushwant Singh would have to say when he saw the crowd of these blue films on the net now....