Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

by Shrayana Bhattacharya

‘At least your fellow doesn’t lie to you. He is being honest and straight. Now you decide what you want. If the sex is good, it’s tough to walk away. Because sex is so important, yaar. It’s the only good kind of attention men can give women. But most boys in India don’t know what to do, and most girls I know don’t know how to enjoy it. No one tells us about it, we can only learn from porn, and that doesn’t show what we women like. It’s made for boys mostly, and I think it’s just teaching them to keep attacking our bodies in bed! I wish they would take some lessons from Shah Rukh—have you seen how he kisses women on the neck so often in his films? No other actor does that. Shah Rukh could teach these men. Instead they learn from God knows where.’