Old Code

One wonders what makes the Supreme Court of India adhere to the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code as framed way back in 1868. The Indian social set-up has undergone a sea-change in the intervening period of nearly a century and a half. And now once taboo topics like homosexuality and lesbianism are actually topics of a number of commercial Indian movies. If the empathetic portrayal of such 'unnatural' relationships on a popular mass media like movies is not a crime, then how come the practice of such relationships be deemed illegal, especially since sex is often a matter of pure pleasure, without any objective of procreation. If the parties involved agree to have such relationships, then how on earth can any court in a democratic republic denegrate them, especially when the practice of such relationships involves adoption of safe-sex measures?