We Indians are inordinately prudish about discussing anything relating to sex, and when it comes to sexual health problems, the squeamish silence surrounding it becomes quite deafening! Any sexual problem is at first refused to be acknowledged; then if acknowledged, is swept under a shroud of secrecy. In this environment of denial, standup comic Abish Mathew touched on this ‘forbidden’ subject. As a matter of fact, it won't be wrong to say that India’s standup comics are doing a far better job of drawing attention to social fault lines, political opportunism and our many deep-rooted hypocrisies, than much of our so-called free press.
According to one report, for every one person who goes to a qualified sexologist to seek treatment, a hundred others visit quacks instead. Posters such as these and numerous scrawled messages on walls that promise to cure are common and end-up misleading people. Those who choose to visit such unqualified, possibly dangerous quacks for their ‘gupt rog’ (secret disease or the umbrella term used to describe sexual problems), are at a greater risk of further aggravating their problems.
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