India¡¯s Gay Community Is Now Finally Finding And Expressing Love Through Extramarital Affairs

The striking down of two colonial-era laws - Section 377, which criminalised homosexuality, and Section 497, which criminalised adultery, the gay community in the country is quite contented.

In a recent survey, close to 70 per cent of Indian respondents in a recent survey have now said that these changes ¡°will liberate people from their marriage burden and help in having love affairs out of wedlock.¡±

Extramarital dating site Gleeden, which has a five million userbase in the country, conducted a survey on Valentine¡¯s Day and found that many married individuals looking for affair partners.

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A press release by the company claims this is an evidence to the fact that after section 377 was abolished, ¡°people feel freer to express their sexual preference and to pursue homosexual or bisexual encounters outside the wedlock.¡±

One-third of respondents acknowledged that the legal changes would be liberating were women.

Gleeden says that in the past four months there has been a 45 per cent increase in same-sex encounters among subscribers on the website.