When was your first smooch? Nosy Anthropologist finds out

Also read: Kiss of love: Public kissing Western? Public pissing Indian?

How do Hindus make love? Clearly, they don’t kiss as the kiss is really a Western product and against Hindu culture. This could be the reason there are virtually no kissing scenes in Hindi cinema – because most of the actors (barring a few Khan type men) are Hindus, and they can’t be seen kissing publicly, so instead they make do with flowers leaning into each other and music in the background.

I’ve always found this very strange: I’m not sure if Hindu men – at least those who are protesting, particularly in Kochi, and the many who are not protesting but who silently support those who are – find kissing Western, or just kissing in public Western. Also, is it kissing on the lips only that’s objectionable, or the cheeks, the forehead, the chin, shoulder or… (those three dots are for other body parts that cannot be named).

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