we are more complex than we think. despite my extreme openness regarding premarital cohabitation and many other things related to sex, somehow, i find skin showing demeaning and nauseating almost. doesn't matter which gender, do not strip a human being to get trp/popularity whatever. ah, if the story and character need it... that's ok. if the story needs you to be you're in the pool, i am ok with you being shirtless, or in some outdoor scene where for whatever reason it's natural to be without shirt, fine, but just to show your body and those unnatural whatever packs, please. also, please do not bung in situations just so that you can show a man without his clothes. and so i was that minority which didn't want unnecessary topless scenes of barun (bathing asr at a public tube well, making him take off shirt for some strange oil massage... art.i.fic.ial), and just didn't like either of his posed bare chested pictures. you and i had very different pov's on asr and la and whether anything was on between them, but on this issue, hi five, my poet/journo.

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