Don't misunderstand a nice devotee

[Guest guest]

> Anatomical parts, seem to be in vogue in discussion in this conference

> recently, and considering the topic they reference I guess they are

> appropriate. But the context and inuuendo that was displayed in that

> statement, betrayed what appeared to be the worst kind of sentiment.

 

I have been thinking a little bit about it. How come some men get so

interested in some anatomical parts, and that they get so emotional

about it, even devotees? I think that men also can speak naturally

about anatomical parts, but then it is men's parts. Particularly muscles,

or things relating to the power of the men's body. Nothing wrong

at all, and nothing to hide. Things related to women's bodies tend

to have sexual emphesis for men, but of course women feel

nothing sexual at all speaking about their bodily problems.

 

I have also found, speaking with men, that their first sexual encounters

in their childhood, tend to have a great impact on them. For example,

practically all men in my country, when they were boys, tended to

look into some sexual magazines, in secrecy. Maybe they were looking

together, for the first time seeing a picture of a naked woman. It probably

was very interesting. But the funny thing is that many men's taste of

what is a "really sexy lady" happen to be the image from those magazines.

When they have a girlfriend, and what her to dress really really sexy,

they unconsciosly often want to see her as an image of those women

in the magazines they were looking at as young boys.

 

So actually, I guess men can be excused, since they unconsciously

just reflect the views they picked up in boyhood and learned in school.

Not that women did not pick up viewpoints, only that they picked up

a different set of viewpoints. These sets of viewpoints most probably

have a very strong cultural bias also.

 

So it appears that to get a Varnasrama society, we need to imprint

the children with the Vedic viewpoint. Later when they get older, they

will automatically and unconsciosly prefer that viewpoint, and after

a few generations we have Vedic society again. The problem is only

how to avoid the western elders to imprint their own childhood

experiences into the new children. I think we need to talk about these

things, so that we realize from where our preferences come, and

consciously change them.

 

ys Prisni dasi