Seems Amartya Sen feels that homosexuality should be decriminalised in India. Nonone seems to give any thought to the fact that male and female homosexuality are completely different and should not be clubbed together. Consider anatomy. Woman has a vagina which is a very distensible organ capable of accommdating any size of penis. Two lesbians may engage in oral sex or use implements shaped like the male organ and as long as they are careful not to cause injury their act is near physiological. Man has a penis which when excited is hard. Two men may engage in oral sex or one man inserts his organ in tha anal passage of the submissive partner. The anal sphincter is designed for evacuation of faeces but not for the insertion of a hard object and repeated such act causes a patulous, incompetent sphincter resulting in faecal incontinence. The rectum is loaded with bacteria esp. gram negative ones and the dominant partner gets urinary tract infection which is almost unknown in men till they get enlrged prostate over the age of 60 years. Thus while female homosexuality is near physiological the male act is totally abnormal. Lesbians may feel liberated at getting rid of men from their lives but they are actually providing a human shield to the abnormal activities of their male counterparts.