Kerala’s Congress MlA AP Abdullakutty, a devout Muslim, has a special prescription for ending perversion among Kerala males and atrocities including rape towards the female of the species in the State: Start night clubs, open shops selling sex toys for men and women and thus transform God’s Own Country into a Macau.
In Marakkanakatha Macau Yatra (Unforgettable Macau Trip), the book he wrote on his recent visit to Macau with his wife and kids, Abdullakutty, who was in March last accused by solar scam con woman Saritha S Nair of raping her, says that opening night clubs and sex toy shops is the only way to end sexual crimes in Kerala.
“I was stunned when my wife asked me why our Government cannot start shops for sex toys in every panchayat as centres of therapy for the Malayalee sexual perverts who would rape even five-year-old kids and 85-year-old grandmas,” Abdullakutty says, adding some Islamic countries had started night clubs for sexual perverts.
Abdullakutty is speaking of a sex revolution — as he sees it — in God’s Own Country just when his party is showing signs of increasing conservatism and even trying to banish booze from the State. Many in the Congress have already launched criticisms against their MlA, saying that he should have thought twice before speaking of such contentious things.
Macau had caught the imagination of Malayalees during the 2006-11 lDF rule when the Congress unleashed a campaign against then Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan over his son VA Arunkumar's visits to that place. "When I told some of my legislator colleagues that I had been to Macau, most of them asked me not to write about it," Abdullakutty says.
Abdullakutty writes in his travelogue that the approach to sex in Kerala is very narrow-minded and that time has come for an open discussion on sex and sexuality in the Kerala society. The Keralite is not ready to include such subjects in the agenda of life and that is the reason why Malayalees are regressing into the level of moral policing from moral consciousness, he says.
Stating that one of the main reasons for the increase in incidents of rape is the lack of awareness about sex and that it is time for Kerala to include sex and sexuality in the academic curriculum, Abdullakutty says that separate schools for girls and boys are not appropriate for modern societies and such a system should be done away with totally.
"One of the things I had learned while studying in college is that those who are showing sexual perversion are men who had studied in such schools. They are indeed experiencing the problems of having a life in a boys' schools for ten years without interacting properly with students of the opposite sex and sharing friendship with them," Abdullakutty writes.
The MlA, who had joined the Congress five years ago after his expulsion from the CPI(M) for extolling the development model of Narendra Modi, then Gujarat Chief Minister, says that Kerala should draw its lesson for ending sexual perversion from certain Islamic countries which had started night clubs in order to help sexual perverts to come out of the condition.
"When some religious scholars aired objections to the starting of such centres, the rulers said that these were meant for men in whom perversion had developed into a disease. like them, we too can say that it is time we started such centres for perverts," Abdullakutty writes in the book which will be released on August 9.
leaders of various political parties have started attacking Abdullakutty for his 'discovery' of the virtues of Macau and sexual catharsis. But he is unfazed by criticisms. “All I want to say is that my critics should read my book before attacking me,” says Abdullakutty, for whom the Macau he saw is much more than night clubs, sex toy shops and gambling dens.