This is actually really not funny at all but uncovers another little bit of the reality of BK experience. It documents the experience of adolescent sexuality with the Brahma-kumaris cult.
I attempted elsewhere to discuss in general the Indian woman's experience of sex, as a background to Brahmakumari attitudes, to a resounding silence ... it was an unspeakable subject. The only relating discussion of it that I have found to date were references to Indian women's nickname for their sexual organs and how they addressed it to their daughters ... the word they used for their vagina was "shame-shame". Recently, a South Indian actress that promoted safe sex and spoke out about men's unrealistic expectations of women's virginity at marriage (given their own sexual behaviour) was subjected to 25 court cases and violent protests taking three years to resolve. Protests were led by other women.
From Chronic koro-like symptoms, Nilamadhab Karl, Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust, United Kingdom
I attempted elsewhere to discuss in general the Indian woman's experience of sex, as a background to Brahmakumari attitudes, to a resounding silence ... it was an unspeakable subject. The only relating discussion of it that I have found to date were references to Indian women's nickname for their sexual organs and how they addressed it to their daughters ... the word they used for their vagina was "shame-shame". Recently, a South Indian actress that promoted safe sex and spoke out about men's unrealistic expectations of women's virginity at marriage (given their own sexual behaviour) was subjected to 25 court cases and violent protests taking three years to resolve. Protests were led by other women.
From Chronic koro-like symptoms, Nilamadhab Karl, Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust, United Kingdom
Background
Koro is a culture bound syndrome, which has been reported usually from Asian countries. It has been described as an acute, brief lasting illness, which often occurs in epidemics. There is no description in literature of a chronic form of this syndrome.
Case: 1
A 30-year-old unmarried, male, clerk presented with the persistent fear that his penis was shrinking gradually for last 12 years. He stated that due to the shrinkage he remained weak, anxious and sleepless. He continuously brooded over it. He got panicky whenever he saw his penis, as he felt that it is shrinking back, and remained perturbed for days together after that. Due to this he consciously avoided to see or contact his penis, even in bathroom.
He explained that it was due to his nocturnal emissions and a couple of masturbatory acts in middle adolescence. He was extremely religious and attended religious institutions like that of ... Brahmakumaris.
He considered penis as sacred and its gradual shrinkage as an omen of his ultimate destruction and death. He believed that this was due to sinful (anti-religious) incidences of nocturnal emission and masturbatory acts. He had decided not to marry in order to avoid any possible retraction. He remained preoccupied with these thoughts, avoided company, and interaction with females. He requested for medicines that would stop further retraction.
He had been given anxiolytics, sedatives, antidepressants and anti-psychotics at various point of time by many practitioners and had been counselled. His symptoms persisted with intermittent exacerbations without much relief.
Unlike obsession his thoughts were never resisted. His belief had influenced his behaviour and way of life, was shakeable, and appeared more like overvalued ideas. His mood state was predominantly anxious with occasional panic attacks associated with somatic equivalents. He did not have any other major psychiatric syndrome.