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Maybe I'm just a cynic, but as far as I know the only reproductive testing people want done in India is prenatal sex-determination so that they can abort female fetuses and effectively create a giant Sputnik-esque sausage fest.

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Yeah, it is the hope and aspiration of those in this field to spread awareness of body and how it

operates (and the numerous forms of impotence there are). 1.2 billion people...that is a lot of time,

though. These are long term goals.



@Sitar, I am pretty sure in quite a few cases you aren't far off.

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Sadly, I'm not far off at all. The gender-ratio disparity in some areas is so ridiculously bad that they are actually kidnapping girls from other parts of India and selling them as brides. Of course, this is essentially forced prostitutions because their only roles are cooking, cleaning, and making MALE babies. Naturally experience teaches these savages nothing so they continue -ciding their female children.



Naturally this means you have millions of young men who will likely never get married because there simply aren't enough women around. So what's a frustrated young man to do but simply take what's not his, ergo, the rape epidemic sweeping the country. And thus the cycle continues.



/rant.

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I wouldn't call a statement addressing several real world issues are rant. More like ignored truths.

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Yeah, but perhaps a Porcupine Tree thread isn't the best forum. Then again, SW did write Blackest Eyes...

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There are worse ways to derail a thread.

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Its a very worrying state of affairs, its pretty much teh same in Pakistan. But its good to see such

large demonstrations against such heinous crimes, people are becoming more aware. But lack of

education leads to crimes like these, and there will continue to be a lack of adequate education

becasue the corrupt politicians live off the easily oppressed.

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From what I have seen, when a girl is raped, the village will blame her which often leaves the girls homeless.

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It's so erotic when your make up runs.....

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^I honestly love the intimacy in his voice when he sings that

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Really? I thought Pakistan, at least culturally, wouldn't be as antagonistic towards female children simply because of Mehr rather than Dowry being the custom.

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"It's so erotic when your make up runs....."



Yeah, that line is pretty erotic, or atleast I thought so until I looked up the lyrics to serenade by then-girlfriend with. The lyrics ruined the song for me.

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It's supposed to ruin the mood imo cause it's about a rapist or serial killer or something along those lines.

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its kinda cool to show the twisted pleasure a rape offender receives during the act, not something you think about too often lol

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That's why SW wrote most of the album about that subject. Not because he wants to become a serial killer or rapist, but SW is interested in the psychology of why they commit their acts. He finds it interesting.

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In general, yeah. I should have specified poor villages, and obviously in neighboring countries it is far more common.



"and there will continue to be a lack of adequate education

becasue the corrupt politicians live off the easily oppressed."



I hate that this is pretty much the story of the entire world. Political corruption is one of the most common threads in life.

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"Really? I thought Pakistan, at least culturally, wouldn't be as antagonistic towards female children simply because of Mehr rather than Dowry being the custom."



Nah in the villages its the same. If some guy causes problems to an individual of some other more powerful family, or even if he can't pay the monthly "fee" that the landlords demand from him then a female member (some are as young as 9) of the "perpeatrators" family will be forcibly married off to other man. And whats more disturbing is that when some cases are taken to the "tribal elders" a lot of these elderly morons decide in favour of the pervert. But the government won't do anything about it becasue most probably they're friends with the landlords

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This year's elections in India are going to be between an absolutely corrupt party headed by a complete nincompoop, and a business-minded religious fundamentalist-sympathizer. We're pretty much fucked no matter what.

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And folks here in America love to complain about their options. To a certain extent, Americans don't even know what corruption is.

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@Omair, yeah I've heard of cases like that.