A 94-Year-Old 'Sexpert' Gives India Advice On You Know What
Schools in the conservative country often have no sex ed, and it's a taboo topic at home. That's why Dr. Mahinder Watsa is one of the country's most popular advice columnists.
Note to readers: As you would expect in a story about a sex advice columnist, this post contains some frank language about sex.
Growing up in India, I had no sex ed in school. Sex was a taboo. Indian parents largely avoid the whole birds-and-bees talk.
I'd never heard words like condom, intercourse, ejaculation or penetration spoken aloud.
But I had read them in my local tabloid newspaper, the Mumbai Mirror, in a column called "Ask the" — a source of guilty fascination for youngsters like me. There are stories of parents across the city clipping out the column before putting the newspaper on the breakfast table.
