Anjali Arondekar
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 May
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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in Colonial India · 1 May 2026
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So the before and after is a seduction.
It pulls us in.
We want to believe that we can make up for things that go wrong.
And sexuality interrupts.
that binary, right?
People have children, people have desires, people write books.
So all of these kind of binaries between black and white, between men and women, between whatever genders you pick, those binaries start to collapse under the weight and the kind of pleasures of sexuality.
And I think therein lies the rub, I think, which is why we can have this conversation with so much pleasure as well.
Well, firstly, we are infinitely more interesting.
So I will take that.
That's so true.
I will take that.
But in all seriousness, I mean, first, just to remind your listeners, Edward Said, when he talks about the Orient, he's talking about what we now understand as North Africa and the Middle East.
He's not talking about South Asia, right?
And I think that's an important distinction that the idea of the Orient has also means something very different in the 19th century.
Now, in terms of the, you know, why India, what's the kind of fetish around sexuality?
I would say two things.
One is, you know, one could bring up the red herring of things like the Kama Sutra, you know, all of these sort of colonial, pre-colonial texts, which contain lots of discussions of sexuality.
But I have many, many colleagues and comrades who work in Judaism and Islam and Christianity, and they'll say there's sex everywhere.
It's about how you appropriate, extract and think about it.
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