Ep 161: The History of Desire in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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How Does It Affect Your Desire?
In your book, you talk about how plato's symposium is a pen in praise of pedagogical sodomy. And there is this tradition which also then comes down to even the sufis and even, you know, maybe rum christna paramans in eviananthe being an example of that. How does that affect our er looking at desire? Because these notions of consent and individual rights are relatively recent bi onts e inventions, but they've been given importance relatively in recent centuries. We are so tricky, ino i mean, so complex and complicated.
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