The Kanamara Matsuri, also known as “The Penis Festival” in Japan, celebrates sexuality and protection against STDs with phallic and clitoral symbols. The festival breaks many stereotypes and speaks volume about the richness of the Shinto tradition.
A decade or two earlier, sex education was considered taboo. How did people then know about it? Sadly, many didn’t. Some did when they did the act, and a few through books and video formats. This lack of knowledge was extended to such an extent that China, a country known for being secretive in terms of political and societal matters, started hosting an event that promotes sex.
The Ambubachi festival is an annual festival celebrating the menstruation of the Devi at the Kamakhya Temple, in Assam. Kamakhya embodies the mother cult, Shakti, and this unique festival celebrates fertility and India’s close cultural, agricultural and social ties with the Devi.
Media representation plays a crucial role in shaping the minds and building a formative understanding of important issues.
A child’s perception of sex is tarnished by media exposure, which also fosters the notion that it is evil and filthy. Young adults base their concept of sex in a world that is far from reality because of the comfortable taboo that surrounds sex in our society. Many factors make the connection between sex and the media quite problematic. However, media has also been the only source of information for people whose households rule sex out as filthy and uncultured. Media, therefore, plays a very important role in influencing how sex is portrayed in society and in people’s eyes
School dress codes navigate through the narrow spaces to establish a power dynamic in young minds.
While cis-gendered, heterosexual representation has been omnipresent and in fact overrepresented, queer representation has continuously been invisiblized and erased from dominant discourses surrounding love, sex and relationships in cinemas. Rituparno Ghosh’s queer movies are a step towards a more inclusive representation, especially in Bengali cinema.
The Khajuraho temples are situated close to Shiv Sagar Lake in a tiny medieval settlement encircled by Vindhya Range hills. The 10th century marks the beginning of the Khajuraho Temples’ history. In a society where discussing sex, pleasure, sexuality, and intimacy are frowned upon, right in the middle of that nation sits Khajuraho, the pinnacle of sensuality and desire, where love and intimacy are carved into stone and where architecture takes on the role of the universal language of feelings.
Halloween’s here! And while for many people in the world it may be spooky, scary, chocolatey or just a damn normal day, for one particular couple…. ‘Trick or Treat’ takes on a whole new meaning as they whip up a hot and heavy storm in their bedroom, albeit some minor mishaps.
A fetish is a sexual attraction to inanimate objects, body parts, or situations not commonly viewed as being sexual in nature, while a kink is a broader term that includes a variety of sexual interests, behaviors, preferences, and fantasies that are thought to be outside of the mainstream. People can get in their heads about whether it’s weird, but let yourself off the hook about any judgments.