Amarendra Sharan, the lawyer for the Delhi Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, argued that only sex between a man and a woman was “natural,” because it has the possibility of procreation. “Any penetration of the sexual organ” that does not, he continued, “will be against the order of nature.” Sharan was asked by the judges about the meaning of “carnal” and “penetration,” and read from a 1969 case that defined “carnal intercourse” as “the temporary visitation of an organization” by the penis, “where the primary object was to obtain euphoria, and where the visiting member was partially enveloped by the organization.” On that basis, Sharan argued, even mutual masturbation should be considered both “unnatural” and penetrative, and disallowed under Section 377.