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Full Video on Youtube : Sex and Menstruation: Why is Religion so Obsessed? || Acharya Prashant (2025)

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00:04if a woman is menstruating and she touches pickle the entire lot will rot and some genius will say
00:13you know the real scientific reason is this you want to insert science where there is really no
00:18science just blind tradition and belief most of India is still rural and small town men cannot
00:26come out and say they are having gynecological problems because you blow it up into such a big
00:33thing in the mind of the girl also it becomes a disproportionately big thing whereas it is nothing
00:42it's like any other usual process in the human body that's it what kind of culture is so obsessed
00:51with reproduction you don't want to place emphasis on her education you don't want to celebrate the
00:58days when she first picks up a badminton racket wins her first match completes her first book writes her
01:05first paper you don't want to celebrate those days you don't want to remember those days participates
01:09in theater or just rides the bicycle the first time those are not the days of significance please tell
01:17me but you want to remember when she becomes fertile the result is the woman starts seeing herself as
01:25as not more beyond a reproductive machine

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