Why do Indian brides enter the bedroom with a glass of milk for the groom on the day of consummation ?



Its an indian thingie were the room is decorated with flowers and the bed with rose petals, lots and lots of fruits beside the bed.

When I was a kid I used to think they would eat all those fruits, sweets and quench their thirst with milk and sleep.

You see we didn't have sex-ed classes, neither I saw any pornographic films to understand how babies were born. I used to think all the homa(ritual) and the havan kund (sacrificial fire) was done to get a baby.

Let me come to 'why the hell milk' part. Imagine yourself as a bride walking inside a room filled with the smell of rose and Jasmine and a stranger 'the bridegroom' now husband, waiting to rip your clothes apart and satisfy his desire to have coetus with you, how would you feel?.

Won't feel nervous? Won't you be shaking like a vibrator?

Do you want your husband to notice your hands trembling in fear, nervousness or maybe excitement.

So to avoid getting caught with a shaky hand and feeling embarrassed about it they hand you a glass of milk, which can also be replaced with a glass of Gatorade to improve your husband performance and be more active or a glass of poison if you don't like your husband.