Kartikey Sehgal
(Rated Mature)
A relation between ‘media writing about rape and society reading about rape’.

1. Media Covers Rape

The media knows all about rape. How it happened. When it happened. How many and what they did. If they are connected to someone powerful. What was the girl wearing. The time. If she was alone. Should she be alone. If she shouted. If she was gagged. Her sisters or brothers. The family of the rapist. And much more.

Newspapers give front page preference to many rape stories. News channels cover almost every rape story in detail; they have half hour modules for rape and crime stories.

However, this intensity and inquisitiveness is lost during the ‘non-rape’ times. Politicians and policy makers are not hounded for information on how they plan to prevent rapes.

The media—as it seems—does not even realise that education is a factor in reducing crimes. Education—confidence—self-assurance—dignity—respect for self and others. It is interested only in ensuring punishment for the perpetrators; a step anyway guaranteed by the courts.

It does not disturb the policy makers to open libraries and schools in villages. It does not stand outside their government-sanctioned homes and ask questions on the same.

‘Sir, after the last crime, what have you done to ensure that the youth of the village/city/Delhi does not indulge itself in sex crimes?’ No. This doesn’t happen.

Instead, details of the most sordid aspects of the crime are reported. Lectures on sex crimes are printed in newspapers and news channels add background music to an enactment of the crime.

The media reports a rape. And in its heart it knows that the next one will come soon. It is prepared to ‘cover’ it.

2. Society Reads Rape

The media covers rape because society loves to read about rape. The repressed (even non-repressed) men of cities and villages love the sex part of the rape. They may condemn rape but they want to know about the intercourse. They want to read about the setting; whether it was a lone room or an abandoned building.

This may not be unhealthy; the ‘excitement’ of reading about the rape is simply the body telling you that it wants sex. It does not imply that the reader is wicked and wants to rape.

Excessive fascination with rape related stories could be a sign of boredom and massive repression. No parks or gardens, minimal interaction with the opposite sex, religious tensions—all these could lead to a sense of loneliness and boredom. But this does not mean that the repressed individual would commit crimes. He could, instead, shy away from society and women.

However, certain individuals are not able to distinguish between their body’s demand for sex and the pleasure derived from reading rape stories. They may equate pleasure with rape. They may go out of their way to obtain information on sex crimes.

Such individuals form the primary audience of newspapers and news channels who write explicitly about rape. The media writes about and shows sex-crime stories keeping these individuals in mind. They should push for education (as written above in part one) so as to minimise sexual confusion in such individuals. So that they don’t go on to commit sex crimes.

This doesn’t happen. Media feeds on the rape obsessed individuals who in turn feed on media.

Santa Singh

Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monseratte’s son Rohit, charged with allegedly raping a 14-year-old German girl, Tuesday managed to elude the police, even as his father maintained he was innocent. (Source)

The state police booked Rohit for alleged sexual and mental abuse of the 14-year-old girl and was charged with offences including rape, abetment to crime and outraging her modesty. (Source)

Some female acquaintances remarked that women have no reason to walk late at night and behave like **u** (the word) and attract attention.

I told them, “That’s because you want to get married and stay at home. You are working right now only to attract the highest earning man and make his home. All you are interested is in money and wealth.”

They didn’t respond and I continued casually.

“You can say that women can stay at home because you won’t mind doing so. Of course, the home has to be wealthy and your friend circle influential.”

“You are a dog”

“You can’t get a girl yourself so you are…”

“You don’t know how to talk to girls”

Many more praises were showered on me. Of course I don’t know how to talk to girls. I am unaware of the rules of the world.

Girls should stay at home because it has been discovered that they don’t have artistic talents and their desires are secondary.

That fourteen year old girl from Germany who was harassed and apparently raped by the son of a minister in Goa should have had friends like these girls who were angry with me for misbehaving with them.

They could have told the German girl the wisdom of being home dolls and informed her of the superior Indian culture on whose pretext women are not raped and killed regularly.

I should be sane and accept that it was the fault of the girl’s mother that her daughter got raped. She should not have given the mobile phone to her girl. Without a mobile phone there would have been no lewd messages to read.

The mother is in India for researching on Indian mythologies. She should know better about India’s glorious past where there is hardly any erotic literature; kamasutra was just a passing phase.

Like the real Indian mother-best mothers in the world according to Indian men-she should have closely guarded her daughter and never left her alone in hotels or car parks or public places. By her mere presence, the girl was inviting rape.

Of course, Indian rapists must rape so that they can tell their wife or friends about the difference in raping an Indian woman and a German woman. They at least have a strong purpose; what purpose did the mother achieve by giving freedom to her daughter and not guarding her constantly?

Let’s consider the Indian future of the German couple now; the girl would be called a **u* and the mother would be charged for neglect.

Since the girl is a **u*, it is ok to rape her because she is constantly ‘asking for it’. It is indeed a possibility that the mother must be a **u* as well and therefore she mustn’t complain if she is pawed in public. (Like this)

I am upset and feel that I am not a man since I am not raping or thinking about raping women; especially the ones who ask for it by being cloth-less or mother-less.

However, I do enjoy looking at them and inventing some sexy scenarios in my mind. I feel guilty about my thoughts after meeting these acquaintances. Maybe I should become pristine like them by being the kind of man they want; the one that earns money to domesticate a woman.

As for the mother Fadela Fuchs and her daughter; change your surname. It sounds like a popular abuse and implies that you are ‘asking for it’.

This girl, by Indian standards, is asking for it

Photograph by jmsuarez.

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