A source tells me that kink memes are slowly spreading in India.
Well, I’m looking at the July 2006 issue of the [English language] Indian Magazine “Women’s Era” (designed for lower middle class village women as far as we can tell) and there is an article in there, entitled: “Sexual Role Playing” which is definitely about “kink light”. Some of the roles suggested are: Naughty Child Needs Reprimand, Playing Doctor, More Risk Fantasy. The Naughty Child section begins: “This style of fantasy is more repeated in Western Cultures where the teacher figure is more desireable” and goes on about punishment fantasies. Playing Doctor is obvious and the section of “More Risk” says “it might include a little pain, pretension of forced sex or forbidden sex.” It also talks about safe words or signals without actually calling them that. So apparently there IS room for and interest in some kinds of kink here in India. We didn’t even go looking for this article – my wife picked up the magazine as something to read on the bus and went, “Look at this!”
I’m not sure what the magazine means by “This style of fantasy is more repeated in Western Cultures where the teacher figure is more desireable.” Do Indian people not have fantasies about their teachers for some reason? I had assumed that India had inherited the British education system, for better or for worse, which included the public school-style discipline and perhaps the attendant fantasies, but that’s just a guess. More research needed.
