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Sex & Relationships

The “Why” of Consent in relationships

This article explores sexual consent’s importance in fostering healthy relationships. It debunks myths and emphasizes communication, enthusiastic agreement, and mutual respect. Misconceptions can lead to poor communication, diminished intimacy and various other factors. Addressing consent violations requires immediate action, apologies, education, and seeking professional help, ensuring relationships thrive on trust and empathy.

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BDSM things: Bad Depiction of So Many things

India has a long and mysterious history when it comes to sexuality. India’s diverse sexual landscape is front and center in its arts and literature. Read this blog to know how this media representation is helping to create awareness about kink in culture and fetishism as well as breaking down some of the traditional taboos associated with these topics.

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Double XL: Bollywood’s Flimsy Attempt That Does No Good

Body Dysmorphia or Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a mental illness involving obsessive focus on a perceived flaw in appearance. In today’s world, where Kardashian body types, judgemental aunty’s snarky comments on our bodies and brands having only S size clothing have been normalized, in this article we unwind various aspects of body dysmorphia in line with Bollywood’s new take on it.

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Exploring Sexuality and Love through Rituparno Ghosh’s Queer Films

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.

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Khajuraho Temples- An expression of sexual desires

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.

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Pacifying Sexual Origins

It has not been very long since we have been born out of a vagina. If you are living and reading this article, a hypothetical extremity of 100 years would be correct. Right? Mother earth has been here for 4.6 billion years and still, she is revolving around her solar origin since times immemorial. So, if not every day, let us all take some time to ponder the nature of our origins and their role in the inheritance of very specific behavioral traits.

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Comprehensive Sex Education: Still a Distant Dream?

The New Education Policy 2020 has been all the rage recently. Earning several accolades for reform and improvement, it still misses the mark with respect to one issue- comprehensive, inclusive, and accessible sexual education. Click here to find out more about how this new policy continues to propagate the stigma around sex.

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