Alongside their half-baked knowledge of sex, the older boys also passed along their highly misogynistic ideas about women, gleaned from porn, Bollywood and the socioreligious environment. According to Dipu, most women were kaam chalau*, to only be used for sex. It was hard to find a loyal woman who would love you and only you (whatever your roguery may be). Women had an insatiable sexual appetite; that’s what they really wanted when they laughed or talked with you… It would seem that ‘rape culture’, as described by Western feminists, was throbbing and thriving among these boys.
