There were no howls of outrage or attempts at disruption but only good-natured curiosity and non-stop traditional music as American psychologist Courtney Mitchell tied the knot with fellow American Sarah Welton, a lawyer by profession, in Kathmandu valley's celebrated Dakshinkali temple on Monday, making it Asia's first public lesbian wedding and an additional feather in the cap of Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal's only openly gay legislator.
"Is it a real wedding or are they shooting a film?" asked a perplexed Mahamaya Shrestha, who had come from Baneshwor to offer puja at the temple but flocked to the wedding drawn by the sight of the cameras, traditional musicians piping away and Nepal's third genders adding a touch of colour in their richly embroidered saris.
Here is a stunning homemade sex tape of a hot chick who people are saying is Isabel Kaif. And she does look a lot like the sister of famous and super beautiful Bollywood actress/model Katrina Kaif. In the video she is clearly seen having sexual relations with an unknown man for over 10 minutes. But others say it is probably a lookalike of Isabel Kaif, younger sibling of Bollywood superstar Katrina Kaif. This video came out from UK some time ago. People are now saying that this is Isabel Kaif who recently became known for her upcoming Bollywood movies. Reportedly some people realized her from this home made sex video that began to circulated on the Internet December 2008 under the heading "Katrina's Sis Isabel Kaif sex scandal."
Katrina Kaif has been grooming her younger sister Isabel Kaif for the showbiz life in India and wanted to ensure that her younger sis Isabel gets a grand launch. But certainly not this grand with what is Bollywoods first A-list sex tape. A close friend of Kaif sisters has revealed that elder sister is sharing her experiences and is guiding what to do and what not to right from diet to workout to outfits to parties etc. In Apirl 2008 everyone in Bollywood was asking who was Isabel and by December rumors of a sex video was circulating.
Courtney, 41, had lived in Nepal for six years, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and then working with the UN's World Food Programme. Pant said he met her at a "3D" party – Diwali, Disco and Drag – in 2001 when Blue Diamond Society, the gay rights organisation founded by him, was still at a nascent stage. She helped him with some of the documentation and when she left Nepal in 2003, she gifted all her furniture to the struggling NGO.
"I always thought I would return to Nepal," Courtney said on Monday, dressed to kill in the rich Nepali daura-suruwal and topi worn by Nepali grooms. "However, I had never thought in this way." The couple, who knew their wedding had generated some interest in the once conservative Hindu kingdom, also said they were overwhelmed by the intensity of it.
Upendra Lamicchane, the 25-year-old Brahmin priest chosen to marry the couple, took it in his stride despite it being his first same sex marriage. Last year, Pant and Blue Diamond Society had hosted a temple gay wedding for British citizen Sanjay Shah and his Indian partner, who did not want to be named. Prior to that, an eloping pair of teenaged girls from Kolkata had arrived at the Society's office in Kathmandu, asking Pant to marry them but were advised by him to return home and complete their studies first.
Pant being an MP currently involved in drafting a new constitution for Nepal, the wedding ceremony was full of political banter. When the transgenders attending the wedding hid the groom's slippers, Pant haggled with them, refusing to pay the NRS 1000 they were demanding. "First you agreed on NRS 900," he told them with mock severity. "Now you are seeking more. It's just like the agreements between (Maoist chief) Prachanda, (prime minister) Jhala Nath (Khanal) and (opposition leader) Sushil (Koirala)."
Not to be outdone, his adversaries shot back, saying, "You lawmakers have increased the time for writing the constitution by three months. So why not increase the money too?"
With the lesbian wedding, Pant's Pink Mountain Travels and Tours kicks off its wedding packages for same sex partners, promoting Nepal as an adventure and cultural destination for the community. Though the newly-weds had to call off their elephant ride in the afternoon as the zoo said the hired tusker had fallen ill, they will however spend their honeymoon trekking in the Shivapuri forested area on the outskirts of Kathmandu valley before heading for Nagarkot.
Courtney, whose contract with her university in Denver ends in a year, says she would like to come back to Nepal with Sarah and Stella – the nine and a half month old daughter they have adopted – to work related to refugees, human rights and research. Their marriage is not recognised inColorado but they are hoping the US would follow Nepal's example one day.
"It was wonderful to see foreigners coming out of the closet and openly marring in Nepal,' said a wistful Kali Chaudhary, a 32-yea-old who comesfrom the conservative Terai plains in the south. "I can't disclose my true identity to my family for fear they will throw me out. I wish a day would come when such openness is possible in Nepal's villages as well."
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"Is it a real wedding or are they shooting a film?" asked a perplexed Mahamaya Shrestha, who had come from Baneshwor to offer puja at the temple but flocked to the wedding drawn by the sight of the cameras, traditional musicians piping away and Nepal's third genders adding a touch of colour in their richly embroidered saris.
Here are the screen shots:
Here is a stunning homemade sex tape of a hot chick who people are saying is Isabel Kaif. And she does look a lot like the sister of famous and super beautiful Bollywood actress/model Katrina Kaif. In the video she is clearly seen having sexual relations with an unknown man for over 10 minutes. But others say it is probably a lookalike of Isabel Kaif, younger sibling of Bollywood superstar Katrina Kaif. This video came out from UK some time ago. People are now saying that this is Isabel Kaif who recently became known for her upcoming Bollywood movies. Reportedly some people realized her from this home made sex video that began to circulated on the Internet December 2008 under the heading "Katrina's Sis Isabel Kaif sex scandal."
Katrina Kaif has been grooming her younger sister Isabel Kaif for the showbiz life in India and wanted to ensure that her younger sis Isabel gets a grand launch. But certainly not this grand with what is Bollywoods first A-list sex tape. A close friend of Kaif sisters has revealed that elder sister is sharing her experiences and is guiding what to do and what not to right from diet to workout to outfits to parties etc. In Apirl 2008 everyone in Bollywood was asking who was Isabel and by December rumors of a sex video was circulating.
Courtney, 41, had lived in Nepal for six years, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and then working with the UN's World Food Programme. Pant said he met her at a "3D" party – Diwali, Disco and Drag – in 2001 when Blue Diamond Society, the gay rights organisation founded by him, was still at a nascent stage. She helped him with some of the documentation and when she left Nepal in 2003, she gifted all her furniture to the struggling NGO.
"I always thought I would return to Nepal," Courtney said on Monday, dressed to kill in the rich Nepali daura-suruwal and topi worn by Nepali grooms. "However, I had never thought in this way." The couple, who knew their wedding had generated some interest in the once conservative Hindu kingdom, also said they were overwhelmed by the intensity of it.
Upendra Lamicchane, the 25-year-old Brahmin priest chosen to marry the couple, took it in his stride despite it being his first same sex marriage. Last year, Pant and Blue Diamond Society had hosted a temple gay wedding for British citizen Sanjay Shah and his Indian partner, who did not want to be named. Prior to that, an eloping pair of teenaged girls from Kolkata had arrived at the Society's office in Kathmandu, asking Pant to marry them but were advised by him to return home and complete their studies first.
Pant being an MP currently involved in drafting a new constitution for Nepal, the wedding ceremony was full of political banter. When the transgenders attending the wedding hid the groom's slippers, Pant haggled with them, refusing to pay the NRS 1000 they were demanding. "First you agreed on NRS 900," he told them with mock severity. "Now you are seeking more. It's just like the agreements between (Maoist chief) Prachanda, (prime minister) Jhala Nath (Khanal) and (opposition leader) Sushil (Koirala)."
Not to be outdone, his adversaries shot back, saying, "You lawmakers have increased the time for writing the constitution by three months. So why not increase the money too?"
With the lesbian wedding, Pant's Pink Mountain Travels and Tours kicks off its wedding packages for same sex partners, promoting Nepal as an adventure and cultural destination for the community. Though the newly-weds had to call off their elephant ride in the afternoon as the zoo said the hired tusker had fallen ill, they will however spend their honeymoon trekking in the Shivapuri forested area on the outskirts of Kathmandu valley before heading for Nagarkot.
Courtney, whose contract with her university in Denver ends in a year, says she would like to come back to Nepal with Sarah and Stella – the nine and a half month old daughter they have adopted – to work related to refugees, human rights and research. Their marriage is not recognised inColorado but they are hoping the US would follow Nepal's example one day.
"It was wonderful to see foreigners coming out of the closet and openly marring in Nepal,' said a wistful Kali Chaudhary, a 32-yea-old who comesfrom the conservative Terai plains in the south. "I can't disclose my true identity to my family for fear they will throw me out. I wish a day would come when such openness is possible in Nepal's villages as well."
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A new club in Indonesia that encourages women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied has generated an outcry from some activists.
The Indonesian branch of the Obedient Wives Club, launched early this month in Malaysia, claims to have about 300 members in several cities. Group leader Gina Puspita said the club would offer its members a package of teachings including how to treat their husbands in bed. "A wife has to be 100 percent obedient to her husband in all aspects, especially in sexual treatment," she said.
About 50 women and their husbands attended the Saturday launching of the Indonesian branch of the club at a restaurant in southern Jakarta.
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The club was founded by the conservative Islamic group Global Ikhwan in Malaysia, where hundreds of women are members. Organizers claim they can cure social ills such as prostitution and divorce by teaching women to be submissive and to keep their men happy in the bedroom.
Husein Muhammad, a commissioner of KOMNAS Perempuan, an Indonesia commission on women's rights, said "such a club is needless" and would not get support in the country.
"The obedience should be from both sides – husband and wife," Muhammad said Sunday. "Such a club just places women as subordinates, and a marginal group."
Indonesia's government guarantees equal rights and opportunities for men and women, though some Indonesians are dissatisfied with discriminative bylaws imposed by local governments promoting strict moral values.
Ellin Rozana of the Women's Institute sees the club as a wrongheaded effort to fight prostitution, which she said is caused more by poverty than by husbands' unfulfilled desires. "Such a club is backward in emancipation and respect of women's rights," she said.
However, Makruf Amin, of the influential Indonesian Cleric Council, said he saw no problem with the club as long as it does not violate principles of Islam.
"As long as it just wants to teach good things to the wives, that is OK," he said.
In 2009, the same group behind the Obedient Wives Club set up a branch of the Polygamy Club in Indonesia, which also upset women's groups and religious leaders in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Afghanistan has the dubious distinction of being named the world's most dangerous country for women by an international poll of 213 gender experts from five continents.
According to a survey conducted by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by the Thomson-Reuters Foundation, Afghanistan took the top spot in light of the nation's dismal healthcare, brutal poverty and high levels of violence against women. "Ongoing conflict, Nato airstrikes and cultural practices combined make Afghanistan a very dangerous place for women," Antonella Notari, head of Women Change Makers, a group that supports women social entrepreneurs around the world, told the BBC. "In addition, women who do attempt to speak out or take on public roles that challenge ingrained gender stereotypes of what is acceptable for women to do or not, such as working as policewomen or news broadcasters, are often intimidated or killed," she added.
Still, some authorities were surprised by the poll's findings -- among them Maryan Qasim, exiled women's minister of Somalia, which came in fifth. "If I was asked where is the most dangerous place to be a woman, I would have said with certainty Somalia," she is quotedby Reuters as saying, before going on to describe her nation as "living hell" for women.
View the world's most dangerous countries for women, including facts about each nation as reported by TrustLaw, below:
