Gupt Gyan

A movie came by the same name (Gupt Gyan) way back in 1969 when i was still in school. It was publicised as "First Indian Movie on Sex Education". Obviously it was granted "A" certificate by the Censor Board. Besides the dubious title, the "A" Certificate was good enough reason for all curious type underaged boys have a  "must see" resolve. For me it was the biggest dissappointment ever. There was nothin in it which the young boys were then so eager to see. All it showed was sketches of male/female reproductive system which most of us already seen in the medical books. The rest of the movie was all about veneral diseases of all types that people could catch with unsafe sex (AIDS was not then prevalent). The movie showed such horrific pictures of affected patients (worst than aliens- in advanced stage of infection) that viewers after watching the movie, took months to recover   from erectile dysdfunction. Adolescent boys almost gave up all"bad habbits" for a few weeks before nature could prevail upon them. It was a real Horror Movie.

 The movie made with a few thousand rupees did astounding business all over. The primary reason for that was that till that point of time, there was absolute dearth of source on sex education. The main source of information was gossiping friends who would add a few punches to the distorted gyan they had gathered from their close friends, to make further spreadworthy. The books were mostly pondies which was all hardcore and did not contain any gyan. On the footpath was sold "Kashmiri kok/prem Shastra in Hindi wrapped in yellow celophane which which was meant to give only shocks to the reader and nothing else. At that juncture the boys were mostly concerned about the bad habbit of masterbation. With all such sources combined together 99% of the boys were fed with "knowledge like this:

·each drop of male sperm is made of 80 drops of blood.

·Total abstinance leads to immense mind power - arising out of the age old wisdom of Brahamcharya.

·If a boy shags too often,he is likely to go mad.

·Shagging lead to sunken cheeks, weight loss, knee pain insomnia etc etc.

·female to female physical intimacy results in a piece of flesh born after 9 months.

·If a boy is able to plant a clove in the private part of the girl without her knowledge, the girl will not be able to resist hin thereafter.

·Some females cannot resist the odor of male urine.

With this kind of mindset in the background, while the boys did not abstain from shagging, the act was marred with heavy guilt that itself was almost killing 

The sceptical ones trried to put forward the argument that id ejaculation could be so deadly then all married men would be undergoing blood transfusion if not already dead. In the defence of the myth the knowledgable types fabricated a theory the in case of prper sex with a woman, there is "give and take" of "Energy" and only when it come to solo performance, where there is no "taking of energy, the harmful effects are applicable. Seemed convincing at that point of time.