{"id":3363,"date":"2006-05-11T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3363"},"modified":"2006-05-11T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T20:35:59","slug":"a_zeitgeist_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/a_zeitgeist_of\/","title":{"rendered":"A zeitgeist of repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Trends reveals the most sexually repressed (and Internet-literate) nations in the world by showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=sex\">who spends the most time searching for the word &#8216;sex&#8217;<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/time.blogs.com\/daily_dish\/2006\/05\/googling_sex.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>).<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uab.edu\/images\/imedpub\/Kleenex.jpg\"><img height=215 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Kleenex_new.jpg\" width=231 align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The #1 city: Delhi. The #1 country: Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n<p>Three of the top six cities are in India: Delhi, Chennai and Bombay.<\/p>\n\n<p>The top U.S. city: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mormon\">Salt Lake City<\/a>. Then Chicago.<\/p>\n\n<p>The top language: Arabic. Was it really a surprise?<\/p>\n\n<p>Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=pornography&#038;ctab=0&#038;date=all&#038;geo=all\">who searches for the word &#8216;pornography&#8217;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/trends?q=desi&#038;ctab=0&#038;date=all&#038;geo=all\">the word &#8216;desi.&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>One of the ultimate ironies of the traditional Indian gender roles is that, although they strive to keep chastity on every cherubic mind, they accomplish quite the opposite&#8230; every interaction is viewed through the filter of gender&#8230; it&#8217;s a perversion that the platonic part of our lives is defined by the sexual. If chastity were the objective, repression is clearly not the answer. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/clash\/essays\/gender.html\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Related posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001069.html\">Everyone&#8217;s having sex except you<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002257.html\">No sex please, we&#8217;re Indian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001157.html\">Bad Indian Boy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002803.html\">There is no place to hide it in India<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Trends reveals the most sexually repressed (and Internet-literate) nations in the world by showing who spends the most time searching for the word &#8216;sex&#8217; (via Andrew Sullivan). The #1 city: Delhi. The #1 country: Pakistan. Three of the top &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/a_zeitgeist_of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}