I am a homosexual man in free India. Though the word homosexual has sex in it and since Indians are repulsed by this three letter word, people presume homosexual people are horny all the time. It is so untrue. I’d say I have a pretty pathetic sex life. But that would mean I had one. I mean there are rumours about my sex life, but truth be told, my sex life is just a rumour. No wonder, I spend every night dreaming that the dream of those who dream about me comes true. Imagine, if I had a sex life, I would spend more time in the bedroom than in newsrooms across the country! And while doing so, all I could think of, was my old friend Bunty.
Bunty has a peculiar problem. He peeps into his adult friend’s bedrooms. He spares no one. Whether the couple is a homosexual one or a heterosexual one or a transsexual one, he spares no one. Besides being almost like a spy cam himself, he has a spy cam. Moreover, if people do anything kinky or anything that other than peno-vaginal sex, he captures them on his cam. He then, uses it to extort money from them.
Sometimes, the couples commit suicide. Many lives are lost because of Bunty. After the suicide, the family of the deceased would not mention the real reason of the death, as with the ‘exposé’ by Bunty, the sex life of their deceased kith and kin stands exposed. And no one has sex in our country, because they think, it is a dirty thing to think about, let alone do.
Now tell me. What is your impression about Bunty? Do you think he should be caught and punished? Well, how should Bunty be treated? Should he be caught for snooping and charged for indecent behavior? Do you think Bunty has the right to peep into the bedroom of consenting adults and capture them having sex? Do you think Bunty should have the right to peep? And if you think he should have the right to peep, would you let him peep into your bedroom?
Bunty only shoots, through his spy cam, all sex that is not peno-vaginal. Do you think Bunty has some psychiatric disease that makes him snoop… do you also find it weird that he is fixated to any sex that’s not peno-vaginal? Do you feel that Bunty has some psychiatric disorder that he interferes in the lives of people who have consensual sex, no matter how they do it – doggy style, or missionary, or blow each other till eternity? Isn’t Bunty stupid? Shouldn’t Bunty be cured?
Well, Bunty is Section 377.
Well, I’m glad Bunty’s behaviour is now being referred to a five member bench and I seriously hope he is meted out the maximum punishment for his deviant behaviour. I dream of attending his funeral, and throwing fistfuls of earth on Bunty’s coffin as his motionless corpse is lowered six feet into the cold hard ground. I’ll even put flowers on your grave Bunty.
(Harish Iyer is an equal rights activist working for the rights of the LGBT community, women, children and animals. ‘Rainbow Man’ is Harish’s regular blog for The Quint.)
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