New BBC Podcast Aims to Shatter Sex Taboo for British Asian Women (AVN)

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A new podcast that became available for download on Thursday from the BBC Asian Network aims to break the taboo against talking about sex—or having it—among women of Asian descent in Great Britain, a population that remains burdened by traditionally conservative, even repressive attitudes toward sexuality.

“A lot of British Asians in this country come from more traditional patriarchal backgrounds and being a woman means there are certain roles we must play—sultry sex goddess is not one of them,” Rubina Pabani, one of the podcasts’s three hosts, told The Independent newspaper.

But the causes of sexual inhibition among British Asian women, Pabani says, are not simply tradition or parental disapproval. Representation in media also factors significantly into the self image of British Asian women as normal human beings with the same sexual desires and interests as the rest of the population. 

“We’re not seen on screen in the U.K. unless we’re doctors in a soap or a scientist in Panorama,” Pabani told the paper. “So it’s hugely important to highlight we are sexual beings too, in control of our bodies and with urges just like everybody else.”