Calcutta High Court on Wednesday said that adolescent girls should control their sexual urges and that adolescent boys should respect young girls. The court’s remarks came while it acquitted a young man who had been convicted of raping a minor girl with whom he was romantically involved.
The bench, comprising Justices Chitta Ranjan Dash and Partha Sarathi Sen, said, “Adolescent girls must control their sexual urges instead of giving in to two minutes of pleasure. Adolescent boys must respect young girls and women and their dignity.”
“The principal androgenic steroid is testosterone, which is secreted primarily from the testes in men and ovaries in women and in small amounts from the adrenal glands, both in men and women. Hypothalamus and pituitary gland control the amount of testosterone, which is primarily responsible for sex urge and libido (in men),” reads the court order.
“Its existence is there in the body, so when the respective gland becomes active by stimulation, a sexual urge is aroused. But activation of the respective responsible gland is not automatic”, the court order read.
The court outlined “specific duties for female adolescents”, including “protecting their bodily integrity, dignity, and self-worth, controlling their sexual urges, and safeguarding their right to bodily autonomy and privacy.”
For male adolescents, the court said, “It is the duty of a male adolescent to respect the aforesaid duties of a young girl or woman, and he should train his mind to respect a woman, her self-worth, her dignity and privacy, and the right to autonomy of her body.”
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