Thursday, April 25, 2013

lech·er·ous - adjective \ˈle-chə-rəs, ˈlech-rəs\ - lascivious, lustful, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lubricious


Kushwant Singh in his recent interview to a newspaper admitted being a lecher right from when he was four. There was a guilt tone in his admission. He said that when he took stock of his life and drew a balance sheet, being a lecher was on the debit side. I don’t understand why he should feel so. Definitely I didn’t expect this from him.

Some research said that over 80% of men think about sex 19 times a day (mind you this is a recent study that disproved that every 7 seconds men thought about sex… this would have amounted to 8000 times a day, if a 16 waking-hour day is taken). But I am sure most of these sex thoughts in their minds would have had images of women other than their legal partners. Lecherous I should say.

Another research suggests that majority of the men have twice as many sexual partners as women over the course of their lives. The Health Survey for England found that men reported having 9.3 different partners on average. But for that 'on average' I really would have been confused about that 0.3 woman in their lives. Why one-third of a woman for a sexual intercourse?

Anyway, these two researches should put to rest our ‘Singh is king’s mind, that there is nothing abnormal about him. He should quickly move the entry ‘being a lecher’ to the credit side. All straight men are lecherous, if you go by the statistics and research findings. And don't worry king... most of the celebrities are in your league. Even the celebrated sci-fi author Isaac Asimov has penned a book by the name 'Lecherous Limericks' and followed it up with two more books because of its popularity!





Would this mean that Gay people are not lecherous? Would ogling or thinking of a same-sex person be construed as a lecherous act or not?

It is, perhaps, appropriate that the English word lecher comes from the French for licker. If your imagination now runs riot, don't blame me :-))... Which is why the French for window shopping is ‘faire du lèche-vitrine’, which literally means to go window licking.

And incidentally, unless you have a perfect diction, lecher and lecture sound identical. Let me stop this lecture about lecher and move on to catching up with the number mentioned in the ‘sex thought’ research findings :-)) I am lagging behind heavily!

1 comment:

  1. If you select rightly,1/3 is enough!even for the french word!murali....you are getting more and more dirty(it is a compliment:))for the amount of time you spend on "thoughts" you should be 300+(am i under etimating?)

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