: A Glass of Water – Mera Jism Meri Marzi #WorldNEWSAll Would a normal person normally lie down in the gutter and drink water from a puddle?  Two years back some Pakistani women raised a slogan Mera

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A Glass of Water – Mera Jism Meri Marzi #WorldNEWSAll
Would a normal person normally lie down in the gutter and drink water from a puddle? 
Two years back some Pakistani women raised a slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi in an agitation in Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and other cities called Aurat March.
Now I am a strong supporter of womens emancipation.
I am against the belief of some people, like the Talibanis, that a womans place is in her home, and I am against oppression of women, and treating her as inferior to men.
At the same time, I believe that the slogan Mera jism meri marzi is a wrong slogan, even for women.
In this connection we may consider the Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai, who was the Peoples Commissar of Social Welfare in Lenins cabinet.
Alexandra Kollontai
Kollontai was a strong advocate of free love, and some believe she propagated the the glass of water theory, according to which the desire for sex was just like thirst. So just as one drinks a glass of water when one is thirsty, so also a woman may have sex with any man when she feels the urge, and there should be no restriction on this.
Lenin, and the Peoples Commissar for Education in his cabinet, Anatoly Lunacharsky, strongly criticised the glass of water theory.
Lenin told Clara Zetkin, a German revolutionary :
You must be aware of the famous theory that in our new society the satisfaction of sexual desires, of love, will be as simple and unimportant as drinking a glass of water. This glass of water theory has made our young people mad, quite mad. It has proved fatal to many young boys and girls.
Vladimir Lenin
I consider the ‘glass-of-water’ theory as completely anti-social. It is not only what nature has given but also what has become culture, whether of a high or low level, that comes into play in sexual life. The relations between the sexes are not simply the expression of a physical want.
To be sure, thirst has to be quenched. But would a normal person normally lie down in the gutter and drink from a puddle? Or even from a glass whose edge has been greased by many lips?
But the social aspect is more important than anything else. The drinking of water is really an individual matter. But it takes two people to make love, and a third person, a new life, is likely to come into being. This deed has a social complexion and constitutes a duty to the community.
Not that I want my criticism to breed asceticism. That is farthest from my thoughts. I am not for asceticism, but for joy and strength, stemming, among other things, from a consummate love life. Whereas today, in my opinion, the obtaining plethora of sex life yields neither joy nor strength. On the contrary, it impairs them. This is bad, very bad.

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