She is a city-bred, liberal and informed woman who knows the difference between lust and power, as in the recently concluded series, where she seduces a film-actor (who looks suspiciously like, ahem, ahem, the Biggy himself) to win a model contest. The point being, Bhabhi cannot be classified as a middle-class representative, because she isn’t one. How do we know sexuality is repressed there? Because they still practise arranged marriage, or because women still wear salwar-kameez and don’t talk to boys too often? Repressed middle-class sexuality? That in itself is a label we ‘supposed-urban-liberals’ love to attach to those living in Tier II or Tier III towns. Firstly, the idea that it represents a modified version of repressed middle-class sexualities is unjustified. Then why does that create issues at all?įor a couple of reasons. Why is that such a problem? Pornography has always intended to be a medium of suspension of disbelief indeed, it works on the idea of the unreachable - from the Debonair centre-spreads to Hustler’s honeys. No - she does not exist anywhere except on the web, or that eternal repository of knowledge, the mind. She is an example of the female daguerreotype we Indian males love to dream about.
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