Once again the issue of violence and videogames has surfaced what with the Finnish authorities pulling off the gaming site for ‘Kindergarten Killer’. In this game the players roam around in a school and kill kindergarten students. This decision was taken a week after the shocking shooting incident in the country that had the 22 year-old Matti Saari kill 10 people at a vocational school. Not only this, Saari was far from guilt for his actions as he even posted boastful videos of his before the rampage on YouTube. Another student Pekka-Eric Auvinsen did the same before killing 6 fellow students, the school nurse and the principal. Both the killers shot themselves after the murders and died.

The contradictions may always remain regarding the influence of video games on human behavior, but it is not the first time a controversial game has been pulled back. In 1976, Death Race faced the same fate as it has players controlling cars that ran over ‘gremlins’.  Even the ever-so-popular Mortal Kombat has raised many eyebrows. Yet another frequently discussed example is Grand Theft Auto (GTA) in which the player is asked to commit crime one after another. The instructions may vary from carjacking to cold murder to running over pedestrians.

Sex is also a predominant theme. GTA and many Japanese video games explore sexuality, and not in a good taste. The Witcher includes full frontal nudity in the form of cards that you earn after completing sexual assignments. These are just a few examples out of many.

Agreed that smoking does not always cause lung cancer, similarly video games cannot blindly be attributed to behavioral as well as sexual violence.  But studies, researches and experts say that there is a correlation between games and the psychology. I am not saying that video games should be banned. But I do maintain that I will be very uncomfortable if my 9-year-old plays GTA. The young mind is meant to conditioned positively and the kind of video games that are being made today are nowhere close to that!
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Sometimes, a busy life and an equally attention providing lifestyle can make one seek solace in things that are more mundane and banal. Take the example of Leonardo DiCaprio. He recently admitted that he would like to settle down and take a break from it all. In fact, the guy has been so much under the spotlight that he probably needs to become a hermit. Leo is tired of traveling around the world and living on the movie sets and he feels that he has lost the meaning of life and what it is like to get married, have a family and settle down.

He has been dating the Israeli model Bar Rafaeli on and off and he has many a times spoken against marriages. However, the fact that now he is interested in settling down suggests something else about marriage and the institution of family. It could be a refuge where you take rest and relax, after having loads of fun elsewhere. In fact, it has been proven scientifically that those that have been professionally, sexually and socially active in their younger days look for the quiet and calm a marriage and family provides.

It must have something to do with our evolutionary process. Propagate the genes as much as possible when you are young, and once you get old, you will need to relax and be at home and make way for younger genes.

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Finally, the sexual crime against men is being talked about in India. And who better than Bollywood to deal with the issue! Haven’t we heard of hundreds of ragging stories in college boy’s hostels where newcomers were asked to strip off completely, and some unfortunate ones even ending up getting raped? Well, no one’s really bothered to bring up issues like these before probably because we live in a male-dominated society. So quite obviously, the ‘superior male’ cannot be raped or abused; even the idea is completely unacceptable for the typical Indian mindset. But we all know how wrong they are. So you can see how the male domination goes against both women and men as well.
Scriptwriter Manish Gupta, a product of the RGV factory, is ready to don the director’s hat with his film ‘Hostel’. And nobody is going to witness a chocolaty college romance here but a grim tale of sexual abuse that male students are subjected to. Manish had been wanting to make a movie on this subject for a long time now. Apparently during his engineering college days, he once came across a male rape victim, who gave an expression as if he just died when asked if the rumours about his rape were true. As a positive step, the censors have cleared the film.
Quite a paradigm shift for India here, I must say. After all talking about a social evil is as good as preventing it.
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Does homosexuality really stand against Indian culture? Studies beg to differ. Apparently, it were the British who imposed a ban on gays (150 years ago) while Hindu, Buddhist and early Muslim cultures were tolerant towards same-sex relationships.  And now the gays in India demand that the British apologise to them. But are the goras really to blame? C’mon haven’t the British become homosexuality friendly? It’s us, the Indians who have chosen to lag behind.
Who can forget the treatment meted out to ‘Fire’, the first film to depict homosexuality in India, 1998? The Shiv Sena stated that they would have been okay if the characters had Muslim names instead of Hindu. Even a sleazy film like ‘Girlfriend’ (it was film made for vouyeristic pleasure, but I am all for the rights of a film to be screened peacefully) was asked to pulled down as it depicted scenes that went against Indian values.
Then again, the moral policing done by the cops has indeed crossed the lines of decency and human rights. Now, you can’t even hold hands without getting a rebuke from the man in khaki. Here we are talking about their attitude towards heterosexuality. Imagine what it must be like to be gay in India. Listen you cops, don’t you have criminals to catch on to? There are far more important issues that need to be addressed by the self-proclaimed preservers of Indian society than pummel homosexuals.
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Sex education in school has once again garnered interest in India. We all saw how sometime back, National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) had decided to lift the talk ban on the taboo that sex is to Indians. But guess what, it was just a matter of time when the issue would be raised once again. Yesterday, NCERT on the advice of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) decided to revise the sex education syllabus with quick effect. Apparently, some graphical representations of the human physiology and anatomy were found objectionable by seven states across India. The focus shall now be on abstinence from sex and on safe sex.

And we thought India had outgrown the stone-age mindset towards sex. Talking they are about sex but still there are just too many ifs and buts. Why call off the diagrams of the human physiology? C’mon we are talking about biology in terms of reproduction and not showing pics of the Kama sutra showing the various positions. The entire approach of NCERT is absolutely negative so how can it get positive results. On top of this, sex education classes will be held separately for boys and girls where male teachers will lecture the former while female teachers take care of the latter. So now will we not have any female biology teachers in an all boy’s school and vice versa! Almost a decade ago my class 9th teacher in a CBSE school asked us to read the chapter on HUMAN REPRODUCTION with graphical diagrams of the human anatomy on our own. Do you really think we have moved ahead from there? I have strong doubts.
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I happened to read this piece of news a couple of minutes ago that, with all the advances in science there’s an “Orgasm Jab” being introduced for women. What exactly is this stuff?? It’s not a new brand of one of those toys, but a procedure that requires ladies to go do the doctor to get their pleasure spot augmented.

This G-shot, is a non surgical procedure that, promises to intensify a lady’s sexual experience by injecting a bit of collagen into her G-spot area. Sounds phantasmic?

The treatment results in increasing the size of the pleasure point and raises it by a quarter of an inch in height. Thus, making it easier for the male partner to find her G-spot.

Ok, the news does seem to be interesting. But before you envision once such procedure for yourself, consider the price please. Just 800 pounds! May be a small amount for the hot-and-happening of Hollywood and other Richie-riches but if we talk about their Indian counterparts, the amount holds to be 67,454.8 INR. Plus the taxes! Perhaps, some Indian ladies may also be in a position to afford it. What still remains unanswered is, in a world were anything related to sex sells like hot cupcakes, what else needs to be ‘fixed’ next, in order to achieve the perfect lovemaking session?? And I’am talking about ‘fixes’ for both the sexes here. I don’t condemn the treatment for those chronic people suffering from identity crisis due to such issues and patients particularly. But in this rapidly evolving materialistic world, this procedure will acquire more ‘commercial’ dimensions than being ‘physiologically helpful procedures’. The malady is, if one has the money to afford it, then one may not need trust-n-understanding, and mutual love for one’s partner so much as one may need the urge for such nip-tucks and what nots to decide the quality of one’s most intimate moments!

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After going through this piece of news I realized how limited my definition about Steampunk was. Days back, I remember introducing you to the steampunk keyboards and use to think Steampunk has its roots only in gadgets. But today, I was enlightened by a new invention of an online nerd leader Merlin Mann.

For the inexperienced, steampunk enthusiasts are into reading and lettering about and even structuring old-timey scientific contrivance that surely may not be as expedient or economical (or useful) as your fancy contemporary doo-dads toys. But they deserve to be flaunted on the shelf of your den and who knows what difference they can make during crisis situation.

Merlin Mann has taken this artistic appeal to its rational conclusion, with his own homespun steampunk masturbation device, replicated after the “masturbatory sketchbook” of H.G. Wells. It is pricey and painful to use, but frapping with this will make you go absolutely punk! Digg the video to see what Merlin has to say on this.

Steampunk DIY from Merlin Mann on Vimeo.
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Is it a sensation? A trick? Or a mere misfortune in the creation? Thomas Beatie is now being known as the most incredible feats of mankind.

Unfortunately or fortunately, Thomas’s wife, Nnacy could not conceive and thus the married man requested to have her fetus fixed inside his very own gut. If nothing else, surely it has led to a revolution thereby giving a hope to all women community.

Couple’s baby girl is due on 3 July. Friends, if next time your hubby asks to have a baby then free feel to lean over him and give him a green signal to go ahead. News within this news is that Thomas was born a woman but then got sex transplantation done. When asked how he feels being pregnant, Thomas instant response was “Incredible. Besides being nurturing a new life in my growing belly, I feel stable and am confident being the man that I am.” Thomas is feeling blessed to carry their child. They are perceived as a lovey-dovey couple in their Oregon community. Thomas pregnancy is being verified by his gynaecologist.

Via LifeNHealth

 
Do not be disgusted just with the title. The actual act is more heinous. And the latest statistics seems to suggest, asserts Jhoomur Bose, that if the condition of social security doesn’t improve, India will have three women who have been raped. The 2-month-old babies are not being included here because they usually die after having been raped. Or the two-and-a-half year old infant who’s throat was slashed by her ‘friendly’ neighbor after he had raped her.
Even the old are not safe. Hearing tales of grandmothers being raped leave a vacuum of helplessness in us women. How shameful it is that no girl in the country can deny not being misbehaved with at least once in her lifetime. Rape is not necessarily the penetration of the hymen but also rape of innocence, destruction of self-confidence and a future that could have been so much better had it not been scarred by groping hands. Bose says that if situation doesn’t improve for women, we will soon be having Raped Ladies’ Nights at pubs in place of kitty parties. Oh, God!
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It’s sad but true that our country has never been phirang friendly. With increasing cases of crime against foreigners, I am reminded of a classmate in college from Kenya. She was a bright spirited girl but had a mind of her own. And she wasn’t friendly when we tried to approach her to break the initial ice. She actually snapped at my gang of friends. I was disturbed by her behavior but then realized it was just her way of being on the safe side. Indians as friends are a strict no-no for many non-Indians.

And don’t they have every reason to feel so. Our actions further deepen the mis-belief. Don’t we stare at a foreigner when one walks past us? Imagine yourself passing by an unfamiliar area with people you don’t know anything about. How does it feel to be stared at by them? Don’t we feel perturbed by their gaze? Foreigners are not animals out of the zoo. So, please save that wide-eyed look. They are normal human beings with humane feelings over riding their emotions.

Coming back to what I began saying, the foreign-exchange student did become my friend by the end of first year. It was amazing to exchange notes over culture and gender treatment. But it was a bit embarrassing too. “Men in India need to be respectful towards women. They are shameless!” Now, what could have I said?