Here’s an interesting one.
It seems kissing is a taboo act in India. Of course, we can’t generalize too much because India is the most populated and diverse democracyin the world. Regardless, if you kiss your wife in public you can be arrested and fined. The article I linked explores the issue and history of it a little bit, it is worth a read. I found it very surprising that the coutry that mothered Bollywood and all the sexual content within that is morally outraged by public kissing. Even Bollywood actors are against it and refuse. Public kissing is seen in India as indecent display of sexual activity.
Interstingly, it seems that movies are advertised by the number of kisses in them, as the article suggest the Indian population is ‘kiss’ starved. At the same time, public kissing is seen as an indecent act of westernization contrary to traditional values. Many people went so far as to burn efffigies of Richard Gere a few years ago when he kissed a prominent Bollywood starlet in support of a safe sex campaign. There seems to be a paradoxical set of of values within India, as in many countries, which can be linked between a dichotomy of wanting a western style of life while at the same time wanting to maintain traditional local style and having nothing to do with the way the we do things here in the West. I suppose it probably dates back all the way to when the British East India Company showed up on the shores of India.
I had no idea kissing was such a taboo in some places. I thought the article was a bit of an eye opener an allowed a peak into another culture.
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