The Effects of Globalization on Sexuality in India

The Effects of Globalization on Sexuality in India

Table of Contents

Introduction ………………………………………………………………… Background on Sexuality in India

General Concepts on Sexuality and Love ……………………………………

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Interpersonal Heterosexual Behaviors

o Adults  Premarital Courtship, Dating, and Relationships……..………….  Marriage…………………………………………………….  Family Size…………………………………………………. o Children ……………………………………………………….…. o Adolescents ……………………………………………………….

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Homosexuality ……………………………………………………………….. Significant Unconventional Sexual Behaviors

o Coercive Sex  Sexual Abuse………………………………………………..  Sexual Harassment ………………………………..………….  Rape………………………………………………………...  Dowry Deaths…………………………………….…………. o Prostitution………………………………………………...………. o Porn………………………………………………………………..

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STDs, HIV/AIDS …………………………………………………………….. 14 Contraception, Abortion, and Population Planning ………………………. 16 References ……………………………………………………………………. 22 Appendix ……………………………………………………………………... 23

The Effects of Globalization on Sexuality in India

Abstract: Globalization has an impact on all aspects of life, including the construction, regulation and imagination of sexuality and gender. This paper aims to suggest some of the ways in which this impact is occurring, primarily in India, with some emphasis on questions of HIV, sexual identity, and human and sexual rights. In issues of sexuality, as in other spheres, globalization increases inequalities, acting both as a liberating and oppressive influence.

Key Issues: interpersonal heterosexual behaviors; unconventional sexual behaviors; homosexuality; contraception, abortion, population planning; STDs; HIV/AIDS;;

The Effects of Globalization on Sexuality in India During the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney a number of meetings were organized by Asia/Pacific Rainbow, a group of self-consciously gay, lesbian, and bisexual activists from across south and East Asia and Australasia. Preliminary discussions in the

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