Hidden desires: Hinduism and sexuality

Shaminder Takhar

doi:10.4324/9780203753040

Hidden desires: Hinduism and sexuality

Shaminder Takhar

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Abstract

Sex and its expression through sexuality are fundamental aspects of being human and the sense of what it is to be human changes over time thus we have to acknowledge the historical changeability of sexuality. Sexuality as a highly contested subject has undergone many developments over the last one hundred years, from repressive Victorian times through to a globalised era where sex is presented to us regularly in popular culture. An understanding of sexuality involves sex and desire, embracing ‘the realm of the psyche and the material world’ (Bristow 1997, 1).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Queering Religion, Religious Queers
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Edition	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203753040
Publication status	Published - 6 Mar 2014
Externally published	Yes

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