Moral policing isn't acceptable, even by the police

Time: almost midnight. Location: BTM layout, Bangalore. After a delicious dinner, I went to drop off my lady. I parked my bike beside her hostel, and we started talking about something serious. Our discussion was unpleasantly interrupted by a pair of policemen who, for some reason, decided to pull over when they saw us.

"What are you doing here? What is the relationship between you two?" they asked. Not that it was any of their business but I told them what they didn't have the basic intelligence to infer: "We are talking. And she's my girlfriend". "Do you know what time it is? Why don't you talk to her in her room?". "Yeah, it's around 11:30 and I can't talk to her in her room because her hostel has a stupid no-boys rule." Honestly, I don't understand the paranoid zeal with which we Indians attempt to segregate the sexes. We humans think too much of ourselves when we believe we can suppress the laws of nature.

Then the policemen started to show their disdain at what we "outsiders" have done to the image of the city. "Which state are you from?". "Orissa", I said. That's all the ammunition he needed."This is not Bhubaneswar. This is Bangalore. These things are not allowed here. You will have to follow the law". I have a lot of things to say about that statement. First, the way he said it, it sounded like he said "This is not Bhubaneswar, this is a village". Heck, if you can't stay out late in a broad-minded, largely youth dominated metro like Bangalore, where can you? Second, even if this were Bhubaneswar, would that make any difference to his attitude? Third, exactly what things are not allowed here? Is there any law against talking to someone on the streets at night? Last time I checked, roads were public property and there wasn't any curfew in force in this city.

The only argument that the cops could have put forth was societal propriety. But since when did we encharge the police with that task? Their job is to uphold the law. Not safeguard our morals. Let society take care of that responsibility.

"Now get out of here. This is your first warning." one of them said gruffly. I was indignant. What right did he have to speak to me as if i were a wallet thief? Why do people put up with police incivility when it is the people via the constitution from which the police derives it's power? I was about to give him a piece of my mind. But then I decided against it because that would not have served my purpose. You see, cops aren't used to having intellectual debates with the kind of people they usually deal with. I probably wouldn't have been able to bring them over to my point-of-view. I can, however, make the public realize that they have every right to not tolerate moral policing or rude behavior from the police.
After all, the police derive their power from our consent and their salaries from our pocket.

why does sex have negative connotations?

Have you ever wondered why sex - particularly premarital sex - is considered bad? Why is something that harms no one but gives so much pleasure (not to mention heralding new life) considered paap? You can enjoy great food, cool bikes, stylish clothes, fun games but sex? Noooo......that u aren't allowed to do. But why? What makes sex different from all the other means of pleasure? I'll tell you why. (I wonder why I keep reverting to anthropology to form my theories. I have absolutely no background in it.) Anyways, here goes:

At some point during the course of the development of civilization, people realized that free love (yes, it is not a modern concept) had it's huge disadvantage viz. uncared-for-children. You see, when people go about mating with each other without any responsibility for the outcome of their actions, what you end up with is pregnant females with no one to look after and feed their young ones - except maybe the females most in demand (maals). The male had no way of knowing whether the child was his or not and hence he had no interest in it's rearing (and hence propagating his own genes - if they were his in the first place). So to ensure that the male would take care of the child the bond of marriage was created and called sacred and pre-marital sex was forbidden and labeled immoral. Therefore, the actual reason for making pre-marital sex a taboo was to ensure the proper upbringing of the child.

Now fast-forward to the 21st century. Unwanted pregnancies can be avoided by condoms and birth control pills, among other methods of contraception. So the problem of the uncared-for-child doesn't arise at all. Considering the reasons for the labelling of sex as immoral and the technological advancements of our age, shouldn't we re-think our assessment about the morality of sex?