Following the sensational GS Road molestation case in Assam last year, blogger Local Tea Party wrote a blog post about what to tell your son on rape. Given its relevance against the backdrop of the recent Delhi gangrape case, we reproduce the post
You do one thing. First you grow up. Because, if you grow up means, automatically your son will grow up. And when your son is growing up, give him a pack of condoms. Now don't give that confused look and all. Seriously, give him a pack of condoms. Along with that, give him a lot of free advice. Don't think that he won't take it. Give it anyway, he will eventually take it.
Tell your son to go out with the girls. Tell him to give them hugs and high-fives and ask them to go out on day trips and have fun. Tell him that it is not important to get married before having sex and that if he feels like it, ask him to use that condom you just gave him. Tell him that the Health and Glow shop anyway has lots of varieties of them near the cash counter itself and that he need not be embarrassed to go buy them if he has to. No one will notice.
Tell him that he can talk about sex in your presence. And that you will not feel embarrassed about it.
Tell your son that it is okay to watch pornography. Don't ask him to watch it when you are around and all, that will be indecent, but still tell him that there is nothing wrong in watching two adults in action.
Tell your son to read erotic fiction and have some fun. In fact, if possible, you only give a copy of the Kamasutra to him. He won't understand any of it anyway, but still give it to him. Or try Harold Robbins.
Ask him to log on to Chatrooms and have sex chat with a random girl on the other end. It could be a guy pretending to be a girl, but still that and all doesn't matter. Ask him to have it nevertheless.
Ask him to do sexting with this girlfriend, but tell him to do it discreetly. Tell him it is ok to have phone sex with her and that even if you overhear something from his room, tell him that you will pretend you have not heard anything. Promise him you won't embarrass him.
Tell him to fall in love with a woman (or a man). Tell him to go head-over-heels (or something like that) about her. Tell him to admire her beauty. Actually, tell him to admire the beauty of all women. Tell him that they are single most source of joy on the planet and that without them the world is nothing. Tell him to make love to a woman in a manner that they will remember for the rest of their lives.
Tell him to relax and enjoy sex.
But before you do ANY of the above,
Tell him what they show on National Geographic Channel. Tell him that male animals don't have sex without the permission of the female animal. Tell him that it is a shame to touch a woman without her permission. Tell him that it is a failure on your part and on the way you have brought him up. Tell him that it is a failure to his manhood.
Tell him that real life pornography requires her permission. Tell him that if a woman agrees, no amount of erotica can match a woman's passion. But ask him to wait for the woman to agree first.
Tell him that a woman is a human being. Just like him. Not a piece of object. Tell him that while it is ok to admire her beauty, grabbing her body parts without her permission is worse than stealing food from rabies-ridden street dog. Tell him that just because he possesses a penis, it does not give him the right to mate with every vagina in the vicinity automatically.
Tell him that even broken hearts can be mended but he cannot break a woman's dignity at any cost.
Tell him that raping is a sin for which man will have to pay a heavy price. A very heavy price.
Courtesy: The Local Tea Party
