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ART Of Battling HIV: An Interview With Dr. Niveditha Manokaran

Leave a Comment / Sexual & Reproductive Health / Sakshi Arya

ART Of Battling HIV: An Interview With Dr. Niveditha Manokaran Sakshi Arya interviewed Dr. Niveditha Manokaran and talked about Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), which is a treatment for HIV. Dr. Manokaran is a dermatologist, venereologist, sexual and reproductive health worker, and most importantly an HIV specialist based in Sydney, Australia. However, it would be less to define her […]

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Oral Sex Questions You Were Afraid To Ask

6 Comments / Sex & Relationships / Manya Arora

Oral Sex Questions You Were Afraid To Ask Wait a minute, using the mouth? Some find it the perfect way to set an intimate atmosphere. And some say it is of great help to incite arousal. While some say, it is a great foreplay technique. On the flip side, one might say “eww, gross.” But usually,

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Looking For The G-Spot? We Can Help!

Leave a Comment / Sex & Relationships / Manjir Das

Looking For The G-Spot? We Can Help! Of all the mysteries we haven’t yet solved, here are a few: Are aliens real? What came before the Big Bang? What lies at the bottom of the ocean? Does the G-spot exist? While we can not really help you with the first few, here’s our take on

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How PCOS Changed The Way I Look At Femininity

1 Comment / Sexual & Reproductive Health / Saairah Mehta

How PCOS Changed The Way I Look At Femininity I had barely entered my teenage years when I was diagnosed with a polycystic ovarian disease, colloquially known as PCOS. Imagine a young 13-year-old, a year short of having started her periods, being told that there are cysts in her ovaries. Many of them! And that

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All Your Birth Control Pill Questions Answered!

Leave a Comment / Sexual & Reproductive Health / Gaurvi Narang

All Your Birth Control Pill Questions Answered! While condoms are the simplest to use, birth control pills are the safest when it comes to contraception methods. All medications have their pros and cons. And going on the pill seems harmless when you do it at first. I was 15 years old when I went abroad

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The New MTP Act Amendment: Is It ‘For Keeps?’

Leave a Comment / Sex & Relationships / Noor Chhikara

The New MTP Act Amendment: Is It ‘For Keeps?’ The 2021 Amendment of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (1971) was recently passed in the Rajya Sabha on 16 March 2021 and by the Lok Sabha on 17 March 2020. The amendment boasts of providing women with safe and legal abortion services on therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian, or social grounds.

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A Talk With The Once Silent, Shilok Mukti

Leave a Comment / Pride & Sexuality / Subhi

A Talk With The Once Silent, Shilok Mukti Pratisandhi’s Editorial team got in touch with Shilok Mukti, who is a performer, poet, and feminist activist. She has left a mark with her art, poetry, LGBTQIA+ talks, and feminist ideologues. Edits have been made for the purpose of reporting. Question – Starting with our first question,

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A truly ‘AWE!’some film

Leave a Comment / Media & Pop Culture / Uma Sathwika Manda

A truly ‘AWE!’some film Hailing from a Telugu family, I have always been quite happy with the society I had been living in – until I came to study in Delhi. That was when I got to see different perspectives and see the better part of the world. I have been a cinephile since birth

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Defying Delusion – ‘Margarita With A Straw’

Leave a Comment / Media & Pop Culture / Manya Arora

Defying Delusion – ‘Margarita With A Straw’ 7.8 billion people on earth. Imagine the amount of sex we are having. How many people hug and kiss every day. And how many fall in love. Imagine how many casually hook-up. All different. Someone’s brown, someone’s yellow; someone is white and someone is black. You could be

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‘Haraamkhor’: The Wretched And Windmills That Saw It All

Leave a Comment / Media & Pop Culture / Noor Chhikara

‘Haraamkhor’: The Wretched And Windmills That Saw It All Haraamkhor is a one-of-a-kind movie where even one mistake could have changed the movie for the worse. It explores the taboo around sexual relationships between a teacher and an underage student who did not look good to the Censor Board and could get a green signal

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