Aishwarya Bachchan at Cannes needs to be canned. I mean literally! Here is her response to a question posed to her:

Rajeev Masand: Now, you have been on a long holiday. It’s been the honeymoon and you have been a while away from home, haven’t you?

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Yes, it has been fantastic. It’s probably the best time for any normal girl.

Excuse me, any normal girl? What did she mean? Women who don't enjoy their honeymoons aren't normal? The babe has been exposed to the male anatomy more times than anyone of us would want to know and it isn't our business to question her past colored by monogamous promiscuity but her careless statement shows the lard of fat that sits between her ears.

For many 'South Asian' women the honeymoon period can be a jarring time when they try to come to terms with the male sexuality. Most Desi girls are bought up to fear strange men and are admonished to guard their virginity no matter what.

Sex is treated as a dirty activity, best not talked about and indulged in with the woman lying on her back wondering about the cobweb trailing on the fan with her husband humping her missionary style.

Before the wedding the virgin is generally told by an aunt that sex hurts initially, its dirty and a duty to be performed with no questions asked. Does one really expect an apprehensive woman whose exposure to men has been limited to family and male relatives to suddenly rip her clothes off and say - Come Do Me Raju!!

Here is what generally happens- either the men force themselves on the women and it becomes honeymoon from hell or they become friends and after returning home from the vacation they have sex.

Love marriages are on the rise in India and hopefully men are more sensitive to womens' needs. But when a honeymoon goes wrong do we lay the blame on the woman and say that she wasn't normal and so her Honeymoon didn't go right?