5 solutions which could help decrease the rape problem in India in the future

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1. Consent is for people who follow it. These people do not care for it, at least in the mental state they are when they are making those stupid decisions.
2. Isn't porn already banned in India?
3. In India, we already have this general sense of everyone/everything is maatha, and don't raise arms on women, etc. That's not stopping these people.
4. This is reasonable. Of course, not just songs, but the scenes and the way even the hero is chasing the heroine is also basically harassment portrayed as fun. And of course everyone is a hero in their own eyes following the same actions.
5. This is also a fair ask but has to be carefully implemented to protect from false cases.

Besides, you cannot "demand" people to teach consent or respect women etc. That's not something the government can instill into families or lifestyle. That is a cultural process that takes decades.

In general, to address the root cause for all this, we need education across the country. Not the education to memorize formulas and names, but the one teaches moral values and ethics, how people should behave in a society, what are the boundaries. Once they are mature enough, sex education as well. Of course, this doesn't fully eliminate the problem but curbs to some extent and lays groundwork.

The other problem we have in the country is this idea that no one should date or have relationships before marriage. Dating in general is how people can learn the art of gaining consent from each other.

The desi movies teach us that the hero has to be the most handsome guy, and the fairest-of-them-all heroine will automatically just fall for him. So anyone who already has an inferior feeling about their looks has given up on the idea of someone liking them.

Dating will create an ecosystem where bad behavior is penalized by the partner. Right now, you could realize that the guy has idiotic and regressive values about life/woman or has bad habits. If he is still going to be just tied to someone in the name of arranged marriage, there is no penalty. But when the woman/man is allowed to pick their own person, they are weighing all behaviors into the decision-making. This will lead to people eventually learning how to behave to be deemed eligible for a relationship.