Movie Posters in India
I really identified with Sneha's well-written post on being a small town girl. I grew up in a small town myself and of course, sex education was certainly not on the curriculum at my school.
Most of my knowledge about sex came from precocious friends and the inevitable "Adult Movie" at the theatre. Indian movie theatres have never been very careful about not allowing kids into "A" rated movies (the equivalent of the US "R").
We used to gape at movie posters that were cleverly designed to seem a lot more revealing than the movie actually was and spend a week's allowance (Rs.20 = 40 cents) on what promised to be a movie with a veritable sex orgy ...
For example, the following poster
In its uncensored form was,
Smart chaps, the theatre owners ;-)
They got us every time !
Most of my knowledge about sex came from precocious friends and the inevitable "Adult Movie" at the theatre. Indian movie theatres have never been very careful about not allowing kids into "A" rated movies (the equivalent of the US "R").
We used to gape at movie posters that were cleverly designed to seem a lot more revealing than the movie actually was and spend a week's allowance (Rs.20 = 40 cents) on what promised to be a movie with a veritable sex orgy ...
For example, the following poster
In its uncensored form was,
Smart chaps, the theatre owners ;-)
They got us every time !
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