This was all a little too much for a family where even her doctor father had never had the birds-and-bees conversation with her, leaving it up to the nuns at Holy Cross. She's put together anthologies like "Wet and Aqua Erotica" (which, she says proudly, is in its fifth printing) and her own collection of Internet erotica, "Torn Shapes of Desire." She founded and moderates the Internet Erotica Writers Workshop. Mohanraj was busy being, as she calls herself on her own Web site, "something of a sexuality activist." She was the editor-in-chief of an online erotica magazine, Clean Sheets. It wasn't just the odd story being posted on. Thanks to the Tamil diaspora gossip-vine, friends of family friends in England called her parents to ask, "Do you know what your daughter is putting out on the Internet?"įor six months they didn't talk to each other. "I threw a fit," says Mohanraj.īut it was nothing compared to the meltdown her parents had when her Internet exploits came to light. Mohanraj remembers that when she turned 16, her mother sent her picture to India on a sort of exploratory mission to fish for marriage prospects. So what's not to like?" deadpans Mohanraj. "According to old photographs, my father was a good-looking young doctor. Her parents, like most couples of their generation in Sri Lanka, had an arranged marriage, and it seems to have worked out well. "They carry that world in their head while the homeland watches MTV." "But the immigrant comes to America with a fixed awareness of the homeland as they left it," says Mohanraj, whose parents moved from Sri Lanka to the United States in 1973, when she was 2, before civil war tore the island apart. This is ironic because in Sri Lanka girls her age were being drafted into the Tamil Tigers at the height of the civil war - or going clubbing in Colombo. But as she became more independent and aware of her desires, her parents told her they should have sent her to a convent school in Sri Lanka. It was very typical immigrant drama, she remembers - big fights when she came home followed by her mother cooking her favorite curries. "I started dating white boys and started several years of arguments with my parents," she says. When Mohanraj left her sheltered von Trapp family life in Connecticut and moved to college in Chicago, she began experiencing some of these collisions of sexuality and race firsthand.
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"The interconnected stories are as much about sex as gender." And sexuality and race and class and how they all rub up against each other, Mohanraj adds.
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"This book is bigger than its treatment of sex," says fellow author Abha Dawesar, whose own book "Babyji" raised eyebrows with its subversive take on South Asians and sexuality. Or as Mohanraj puts it, "Will you do what is conventionally expected of you and can you find pleasure in that?" "It's a more wide-angle lens than my erotica," says Mohanraj, 34, who is currently a visiting professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago.īut whether it's 1939 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, or 1999 in Berkeley, California, some things don't change - the secrets and silences around sex and the collision of desires and expectations.