"slave-like and uneducated women... In reality that wasn’t Vedic culture, it comes from Hindu culture which has been heavily influenced by Islam."

Care to give any proofs? Western academics claim so many things about Vedic culture.
How the male elites purged sastras from any hints of girl gurukulas?

"alienating most people"

Bhakti yoga can't be accepted by the masses. BG 7.3.

"I heard she was physically attacked, and that woman were regularly being treated badly, even having goondas attack them."

Hearsay isn't much of value.

"Saris didn’t even exist until after Islam in India"

What is the context of those pre-islamic pictures? Do they show a majority of women?
Most of the art seems to show devas in svarga or tantric couples.
Kamasutra was meant for homes of dvijas.

How did Sri Radha manage to shade Raghunatha dasa Gosvami from the sun, as told by Sanatana Gosvami? Care to give any proofs he made this story up?

"Can you give me one logical and rational reason why Krishna would not want you to enjoy sex for pleasure?"

Both Adi Sankaracarya and Madhvacarya gave a similar definition of asura - one who enjoys the movements of asu (prana). Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.9 speaks about atma's purification from the five pranas.

Ksatriyas are in rajo guna.

"The idea that men lose health, virility and intelligence is not backed up by anyone’s experience."

Read about brahmacarya, tejas, etc. Plenty of sources from ancient to recent ones.

"It’s your destiny to be healthy or unhealthy regardless of what you do."

This is a misunderstanding of karma as a solid fate.

"how about tantric sex where you don’t lose semen?"

The idea of tantra is to transcend the bodily sexuality.

"It simply makes no sense that God would demand that we give up sex for pleasure when it’s painfully obvious that sex life for us was specifically designed for pleasure, if not then we would be like most animals who are only interested in sex at certain times, i.e. when they are in heat."

Heard of the free will, the purpose of samsara, etc.?


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