Rekha’s se*ual openness, too, was revolutionary, even by modern standards, and won her yet more ire. It is impossible to imagine a young starlet today saying some of the things Rekha said four decades ago: “You can’t come close, really close, to a man without making love”, “It is sheer fluke that I have never got pregnant so far” and “Premarital se* is very natural. And all those prudes who say that a single woman should have se* only on her suhaag raat are talking bull”!