Kailash Ahirwar had come to believe that “everything about sex is normal” and that all women—even twelve or thirteen-year-old girls—wanted and had a lot of sex. “Many women are sex crazed but hide it only because of their reputations.” He took this to mean that ‘no’ from a sexually active woman was actually a negotiation, a part of the march of modernity: “Has it ever happened that the girl has said no and you did it anyway?” I asked. “So many times! I am a regular guy.” And, in his worldview, sexuality was indiscriminate: “The Nirbhaya Case… they were both drunk and it was late at night. They
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