On Virility and the nonsensical threads going around of virulous muzzie etc., Gudipati Venkatachalam - Telugu radical communist feminist who later became an ardent devotee of Ramana Maharshi and left his purvashrama - wrote a book called Maidanam (open ground).
The book's lead character is a married Hindu woman who finds her husband's work associate Aamir as an alpha male and is aroused just by hearing his voice. The whole story is about how we should be open about this issue and why women must embrace this notion. of open sex.
The book had issues on all fronts - since it is a hitjob on Hindus, it doesn't dwell into philosophical, moral and social issues. Being the radical feminist he was, Chalam had a rousing reception for this book. Until ...
Great poet, writer, and one of the best minds Telugu world ever produced - Vishwanatha Satyanarayana - wrote a book called "Cheliyali Katta" - as a rebuttal to Chalam's book.
Cheliyali Katta starts with the same premise - a young woman who is married to a sexually less virulent man because of circumstances. The man's brother in the book is a radical feminist and sees this as atrocious manipulation by Hindu male.
He encourages her to abandon the marriage and run away with him. He promises her that he will never ask her to do what she doesn't want to. They will both cook together, live together, sleep together, be what they want to be, enjoy life, and even separate when they feel like.
Gullible woman falls for this and later goes into a deep philosophical thinking - presented to us in the form of a stream of consciousness, the churn within her - and realizes how wrong she was.
The book goes into very fine details about why humans find attraction even in the most dangerous of things and why the borders imposed by self-discipline and societal discipline are necessary. The book title "cheliyali katta" means the sea's limit.
The analogy the author presented is that when the sea crosses its limit, there will be destruction and chaos. Like the sea, humans also need to impose limits on what they can do and cannot do. Sometimes, these limits are built by the society like sea's limit is built by nature.
This book stands out as one of the best ways to rebuke any attempt on the agenda. It cannot be treated in even the top 5 of the works done by Vishwanatha kavi but it still is the best rebuttal to feminists in the Telugu world. Ever.
Akashvani Hyderabad Kendram did a 1-hour audio drama of the book. I found a copy of it some time ago and I think it is available in YT. Chalam's book is available as a pdf. A comparative analysis will tell you whose argument has merit.
It is the same case here. We need to educate our daughters on the dangers of crossing our limits. There will certainly be many obstacles in the process of this education but it is our duty to do this. No law can save them.
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