I and most of you know that this world is screwed up real bad. Well here’s another reason why.
As I was surfing the net the other day, mindlessly, brooding over some remains of a forgotten dream, I came across this pile of crap.
Well, let me explain. Seemingly a High Court Judge of Tamil Nadu, India has said that quote ‘Couples who have premarital sex to be considered ‘married’’.
So? How about that? Now you can get married to one(or more) of your opposite sex( or same, I think) just by the act of sexual intercourse involving the individuals concerned. You see the problem here? Because apparently the High Court Judge of Tamil Nadu(with all due respect) doesn’t.
So I am sitting reading this thinking, How the hell can ‘Premarital sex’…ok let me stop right there. Its called premarital for a reason. Coz its before marriage. Duh!
Did some digging on the case that led to this order. Apparently a man, after being with a woman and had two children(Lord bless them), did not maintain the family. But he did still, for a time not known to me, still lived with them under the same roof, according to the report in The Hindu. He also signed for signed in the ‘live birth report’ of his second child and had given his consent for a Cesarean section for its birth. But here is the problem. There is no legal material stating they are married, and when the women appealed to the lower court for the maintenance case in question, the court said it couldn’t be done because they weren’t legally married. So when the case reached the High Court, they sympathize in the way which I and many others find repelling. I hope.
I am not saying that the case was invalid. Nor do I presume to know anything about law. I am just saying that since they had a document where the man had signed for the birth and the operation involved, and also because of the reason the man and woman were living as a couple with kids, the judge could have called for an exception of some sort, instead of passing a law that makes the act of anyone having sex into that of matrimony.
I do not, hereby, judge the High Court’s intention at all, in any way. India has a lot of cases involving weird, immoral, disgusting acts against women and children. Every day the newspapers are full of it. And I agree, strict new reforms need to be taken to battle these unruly crimes. But I don’t mean such laws.
Now as a result of this law, if necessary, either party to a relationship could approach a Family Court for a declaration of marital status by supplying a documentary proof for a sexual relationship. Documentary proof? Is it just me or does that mean a sex tape?
And if after having a sexual relationship, the couple decided to separate due to difference of opinion, the ‘husband’ could not marry without getting a decree of divorce from the ‘wife’. This is one of the worst parts. According to this law, if you go out with a girl, and get laid (after the required number of dates, obviously), then for some reason break-up, Congrats! you are a divorcee!. Now, the act of seeing another woman is out of the question unless the ‘wife’ gives her consent. Very feministic attitude but that’s not what I am trying to point out here.
This law is completely preposterous. If the court wanted to make a law it could have been like this.. ‘If a man and woman who live together as a couple have sexual relations, and have kids out of the same relations… then their relationship status could be termed as married’. That makes sense, doesn’t it?
Just imagine if this law creeps up in the West.
Well on the bright side, in Tamil Nadu, if you got a dream girl and somehow you guys get laid, and tape it, (don’t forget that part). Then, That’s it! Atta Boy!! You are married! Until of course the girl files for divorce. I don’t know how that will go, but I am thinking it will go the way she wants it.
I am not against feminism, and I doubt a feminist dictator would have seen to such a law because I don’t think all women, who have had sexual relations with a man(or men) would want to be technically married to them. So this law sucks both ways.
I hope I am not alone in such an argument…
As a kid, I wanted to be ‘this’, I wanted to be ‘that’. But as grew up I realized ‘I wanted to change the world’. Yeah I know, stupid eh?… But looking at the state of it, wouldn’t you?
As I See It 