Bollywood Film Breaks New Ground On Sex In India

A new Bollywood film has put the spotlight on changing sexual mores in small-town India, unsettling conservative filmgoers with spy cam footage and pushing the limits of the country’s censorship board.

“Love Sex aur Dhokha” (Love Sex and Betrayal) is the latest in a series of avant-garde offerings stripping the Indian film industry of decades of inhibition and dramatically changing the traditional formula of song-and-dance romances and violent revenge sagas.

The film, which opened in Indian cinemas last week with an adults-only rating, has courted controversy with blurred visuals of a naked woman and voyeuristic sequences in its trailers.

Director Dibakar Banerjee says “Love Sex aur Dhokha” is more about a change in attitudes than it is about sex.

He says the film explores the lack of privacy in the modern world — one where even mobile phones can capture, and broadcast, intimate moments.

“What my camera is doing is that it’s recording a story that is changing in front of the camera,” says Banerjee. “Earlier, sex used to be behind closed doors but now that is changing.”

A decade ago, when a coy couple were about to kiss on screen, the camera would glide to two flowers brushing against each other or birds pecking at each other’s beaks. Indian audiences just assumed the couple had done the deed.

Connecticut Struggling With Sexting Violations

Connecticut lawmakers are considering a way to keep young people off the state’s sex offender registry if convicted of “sexting.”

Sexting — a contraction of “sex” and “texting” — is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs electronically, often between mobile phones.

Under existing law in Connecticut, sending or receiving messages that include nude or sexual images falls under the state’s child pornography statutes. Those convicted are put on a state sex-offender registry.

The proposed bill, which was being debated on Monday by the state legislature’s joint judiciary committee in Hartford, would reduce the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor when the sexting is between minors of 13 to 18 years of age who are in some sort of relationship.

Couple Dies While Having Sex In Their Volkswagen

A Russian couple having sex in a car parked in a tiny garage have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, Interfax news agency reported.

“A man and a woman retreated to their Volkswagen to have sex… Most likely the lovers turned on the engine to get warm,” Interfax reported, citing a source in the Moscow police force. During a moment of “intimate closeness,” the pair, in southern Moscow, inhaled the gas and died, the source added.

Many Russians keep their cars in box-like iron garages near their homes, which snugly encase their cars.

Swinging 60s Had Nothing On The 00s

Young women today are nearly three times more sexually active than those of their grandmothers’ generation in the liberal heyday of the “Swinging 60s,” according to a new survey.

The study found that women in the so-called Noughties between 2000 and 2009 had an average of 5.65 different sexual partners by the time they were 24.  Almost one in 10 of those asked claimed to have slept with more than 10 different partners.

By contrast, women who were in their early twenties in the 1960s had an average of 1.67 partners, and women of their mothers’ generation, aged 24 in the 1970s, had 3.72 sexual partners by the same age.

The survey, carried out by ICM on behalf of Lloyds Pharmacy, questioned more than 3,000 women across Britain.

It also found that although women’s sex life has increased, sexual health is not improving.

Nurses’ Union Says Care Does Not Include Sex

A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.

The union, NU’91, is calling the campaign “I Draw The Line Here,” with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.

The union said in a statement Thursday that the campaign follows a complaint it had received in the last week from a 24-year-old woman who said a 42-year-old disabled man asked her to provide sexual services as part of his care at home.

The young woman witnessed some of the man’s other nurses offering him sexual gratification, the union said. When she refused to do the same, he tried to dismiss her on the grounds that she was unfit to provide care.

“This type of action is not part of the job responsibilities of carers and nurses,” NU’91 said.

The case has been reported to police, the union added.

Poor Fit May Explain Why Men Refuse Condoms

Condoms that do not fit right could break and may reduce sexual pleasure for both partners, suggesting reasons why men and women often fail to use them, researchers reported.

The study has implications for countries trying to encourage people to use condoms to reduce the risk of AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy, the researchers reported in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

“Men and their female sex partners may benefit from public health efforts designed to promote the improved fit of condoms,” Dr. Richard Crosby of the University of Kentucky and Dr. Bill Yarber of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Indiana wrote.

They surveyed 436 men aged 18 to 67 for their study.

Men Risk Anticlimax With Anatomy-Boosting Underwear

Hundreds of British men risked a Valentine’s Day anticlimax for their partners by stocking up on anatomy-boosting underpants ahead of the most romantic weekend of the year.

British department store group Debenhams said Thursday it had seen a 76 percent surge in online sales of the 18 pounds-a-pair ($28) underwear in the past week.

The pants work by using a lift and hold feature at the front, like a male version of the cleavage-boosting Wonderbra.

“The briefs mean that no man ever needs to feel inadequate again on the most passionate day of the social calendar,” said Rob Faucherand, head of men’s accessories buying at Debenhams.

“However we can’t be held responsible for what happens once the pants come off,” he added.

Dutch Law Bans Human Sex With Animals

The Internet potentially will lose one of its main sources of bestiality videos under a ban approved by the upper house of the Dutch parliament.

The new law bans human sex with animals, including in private situations where the animals are not injured, and prohibits the production or distribution of animal pornography, a summary of the law posted on the upper chamber’s website said.

Given the illicit nature of the product, precise figures on animal pornography video sales are difficult to find, but the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, in a 2007 survey, found that distributors in the Netherlands were responsible for some 80 percent of bestiality videos worldwide.

The bill was introduced in April 2007 and passed the lower house in July 2008, but took time to make its way through the upper house to final approval. It was not immediately clear how soon the law would go into effect.

Sex with animals had been legal in the Netherlands, as long as it could be proven the animals were not injured.

No IPO For Adultery Website

Avid Life Media Inc, which runs adult dating websites including one that facilitates extramarital affairs, appears to be having problems getting a date.

The Toronto company had planned to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in a matter of weeks to raise at least $60 million in an initial public offering, according to sources and media reports.

But one source who has been provided details about the offering said efforts to woo investors seem to have met with a cool response.

“They’re putting that plan on hold, citing market conditions,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Avid could not be reached immediately for comment, but media reports in recent days indicated banks and big investors were hesitant to get involved in the deal, despite Avid’s solid financial record.

Avid runs racy dating websites including the Ashley Madison Agency, whose website masthead reads “Life is short, Have an affair” and which describes itself as the world’s premier discreet dating service, with more than five million anonymous members.

Avid Life, which was being advised by GMP Capital Inc, had planned to use the funds raised from the offering to acquire another company, sources said.

“They are trying to diversify their revenues away from Ashley Madison,” said a second source on condition of anonymity. “They have a signed a term sheet to buy another company and have 75 days to get the deal done.”

Avid also runs Cougarlife.com, which caters to older, career-oriented women seeking younger men as lovers, and EstablishedMen.com, which promises to link established men with attractive and ambitious young women.

GMP Capital, which could not immediately be reached for comment, was the only agent on the deal.

Extramarital Affair Costs Man Four Buffalo And A Pig

A tribal court in Malaysia’s Sabah state on Borneo island has fined a man and his lover four buffalo and a pig for having an extramarital affair, a report said.

The pair were convicted by the Penampang Native Court after the man’s wife lodged a complaint, the Star newspaper said. The wife said her husband and the woman were living together and were caught in shorts and sarong when she confronted them.

Judge William Sampil said the court had found evidence of an intimate affair despite their defence as being just “best friends.”

The judge ordered the man and his lover to pay compensation of four buffalo, a pig and a fine of 2,000 ringgit (586 dollars).

Indigenous people make up less than one percent of Malaysia’s 28 million population.