The attitude of “Let’s not mess up this tender, romantic moment by embarrassing ourselves by openly discussing what we’re doing,” is exactly the attitude that gets a lot of young people into serious trouble. That’s what they’re promoting when they say “love scene: yes, condom? No, too shocking!”

The word “condom” appears 26 times in the novel Exmormon. This wasn’t some deliberate attempt at pedagogy — it’s just that it’s a subject that comes up naturally in stories involving young, inexperienced people and sexuality. (Also, it’s a long book — for reference the terms “sex” and “sexuality” appear 86 times.) But even though it wasn’t deliberate pedagogy, I hope to help make some dent in the attitude that protection is too embarrassing to talk about with your (prospective) partner.

I do not know Indian politics or anything else…but the US ratings board is not tied to the government. They act within guidelines they get from the FCC…but it is not the governments agenda they are rating for. I am sure this rating board views itself apart from the government and more as part of the film industry. They may not have any interest in what the country needs…they may simply be saying, we do not want condoms in our movies.

I am not agreeing with the censorship…just saying that to act as though this is India somehow failing in it’s responsibilities is most likely an over-statement. It is more likely the case of prudish ratings board members. Especially when you factor in how open India seems to be about condom use otherwise.

Maybe I’ll have something relevant to say later, once I’ve recovered the capacity for rational discourse.

BEST.POST.EVER.

How long before we are living in the world of Soylent Green because of prudish fools such as what we see here?