Is Lesbianism a Sexual Offense? NMCs New Medical Curriculum Sparks Outrage
The National Medical Commission has reintroduced ‘sodomy and lesbianism’ as unnatural sexual offences in the forensic medicine and toxicology curriculum for undergraduate medical students. It has also brought back topics such as the hymen and its type, and its medico-legal importance besides defining virginity and defloration, legitimacy and its medico-legal importance. These subjects were done…