
The epithet ‘India-the land of Kamasutra’ brings to many a westerner’s mind the image of a highly-sexed country with its people being preoccupied in mind-boggling orgies, involving exotic women, discovering fantastic new sex positions. The reality of the situation is not half as fun. In a country where marriages are predominantly decided and arranged by families, virginity is a sought-after ‘virtue’ in the prospective wife andmissionary is the most preferred position.