“…Secondly, the male body became an icon of the healthy body, while the female body was consistently portrayed as unruly, the icon of illness, and the object of remedy and reform. 10 Finally, though traditional eastern medicine ( ) continued to be practised and adapted, Western biomedicine and its various cures were essential in the colonial state's construction, maintenance, and enforcement of bodily norms and ideals centring around reproductive heterosexuality. 11 As the scholar of gender and sexuality Ed Cohen has argued, biomedicine constructs defensible interior which needs to protect itself ceaselessly from a hostile exterior'.…”