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DR MAHINDER WATSA
1 I recently heard about
a sperm donation camp
where they gave sperm
to another person who
has problems about
EMAIL HAS A
NEW ADDRESS
height, pregnancy etc.
My girlfriend is just four
feet five inches tall. If I
give her my sperm, will
she be able to grow
taller? I don’t want this
to result in problems
such as pregnancy or
anything like that. Your phone, that is. Or even Twitter/ Facebook for that matter. Malay Desai pings some
You have certainly come
across some weird infor- compulsive users of the Internet-on-phone phenomenon to find out if it eats into their social lives
mation. Sperm donation
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is utilised to bring about ext messaging is going ger and activist, I often use net- to her right to see me! in the virtual world has made
a pregnancy when the out of fashion. After all, working tools to gather people up for it. It has made me far
woman’s partner has no why care for a 160-char- for a protest or a social cause. I ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENT? more social than I would be
sperms. Before the dona- acter limit when you spend around 10-12 hours of Maybe. Now it’s becoming diffi- otherwise. Although I’ve met
tion is done, the donor can read and write an entire the day tweeting/ replying/ cult to be able to say ‘it’s been so many rude people who don’t
profile of colour and oth- email from your phone? With reading on my phone. long’ on meeting a friend… know when to stop, and end up
er details are carefully the Blackberry and its variants The biggest disadvantage has since I know about the happen- being anti-social. Otherwise, the
considered before the in- (phones with QWERTY key- been that I’ve ended up meeting ings of all of them at one go. only reason I cut back my usage
semination. boards and internet access) be- many daft people who appear to I’m revelling in the cyber world is to put a cap on the phone bill.
coming as common a sight as be smart in their virtual avatars! now, since it allows you to be
2 I am a 21-year-old having a phone itself, there isn’t invincible or invisible whenever ‘IT’S LIKE AN OCD TO
man. I want to know if a dearth of people who’re get- ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENT? you want! But my mother CHECK FACEBOOK…’
masturbating can make ting compulsively hooked on to Folks at home hate me operat- would agree with the anti-social Wesley-Anne
me impotent. Why do checking their Gmail, Twitter ing a phone all the time and bit… she once refused to serve Rodrigues,
you keep asking guys to feed, Facebook status or their some friends presume I crave at- me food unless I put the phone a 23-year-old
‘not make it a habit’? favourite team’s score — all on tention, but I also believe this away! strategic
It won’t pose a problem their phones. medium has helped me become planner with
to your married life but We fear this virtuality might more expressive and has en- ‘I REDUCE USAGE an ad agency,
like all other actions of just be replacing real life conver- gaged me with many creative gets stuck in
growing up, you should sations that would have hap- people.
ONLY TO REDUCE traffic every
discriminate between pened had the ‘berries not been PHONE BILLS!’ day, like all
pleasure (when mastur- around; apart from afflicting ‘MY MOTHER Ranvijaysinh of us. But she
bation helps) and habit tech-ailments such as the infa- REFUSED TO SERVE Jhala, a 25- knows how exactly to utilise that
(which diverts your ac- mous ‘Blackberry thumb’. We year-old mag- time…
tions and time for other asked a few (online, of course) FOOD IF I DIDN’T…’ azine writer,
essentials) to reach ma- to find out… Mushtaq was recently VIRTUAL VICE
ture adulthood. Sheikh, a 34- watching the I am as hooked on to Facebook
‘TIME PLEASE… year-old screen Golden as anyone can be. I probably
3 I am a 20-year-old OFF TO PEE!’ writer and Globes live have an obsessive-compulsive
man. Recently after Harish Iyer is author bought on TV before disorder to update my Facebook
masturbation, I washed a 30-year-old a ‘berry just the cable connection acted up… status and tell my world what I
my penis, but by mis- creative profes- 15 days ago but he had a backup — his GPRS- am doing. Sometimes even
take, cut my finger and sional and but already enabled gizmo friend of three while in the middle of some ac-
bled a bit. I used the occasional considers it years. tivity, I pre-think what status it
same hand to wash my activist who the new muse for his words. would make. Yes, it’s a bit trippy
penis. If my semen mix- finds it VIRTUAL VICE but thanks to this, I’ve also met
es with my blood, are difficult to lay VIRTUAL VICE If I am not around my computer, up with friends who knew where
there chances of HIV in- his hands off I’ve been hooked on to my I happen to check my tweets/ I’d be heading/what I’ll be doing.
fection? his N72… phone virtually 24x7 ever since emails for a few minutes every
If you have an infection even while er, relieving himself. I bought it. I mean this literally, hour. It’s a high to always be con- ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENT?
of HIV already in the since the only time it rests and nected… anything I want to Yes, I know my habit of check-
blood, you will have it in VIRTUAL VICE re-charges is while I sleep! know is at my fingertips; after all ing and updating my status once
the semen too. If you I’ve been using the internet on While email is a necessity, it’s I use my phone to Google, track at least every two hours (apart
have stuck to safety with my phone since two years. Earli- the opinions, news and views news and check the IMDb as from checking emails and oth-
just masturbation, you er, it used to be just email, but on Twitter which haven’t al- well. ers’ updates) could get annoying
won’t. since the past several months, I lowed me time to droop. with friends, which is why I
have become a social media The other day at a party, I ac- ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENT? have lately tried to not do this
freak. Since I’m an active blog- tually tweeted a friend to move Physically, yes, but being social when they are around!
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