Bloating and PCOS
Struggling with bloating? This can be a symptom of your PCOS. Learn why PCOS-induced bloating happens and what you can do to improve the situation.
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The Ultimate Sex-Guide For Your ‘First Time’
The Ultimate Sex-Guide For Your ‘First Time’ ‘Sex’ is a word that is almost synonymous with heavenly pleasure but for some, it’s cluelessness — all thanks to those uninstructive school textbooks and teachings. Let’s face it: No matter how many adult books you’ve read or porn you’ve watched, you’ll still be nervous for your first
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Realities And Risks Of Teenage Pregnancy
Realities And Risks Of Teenage Pregnancy Adolescence can be a challenging time with all the questions about sex, sexuality, and sexual identity. Honestly, all of it can be too confusing, particularly when we have no guidance at all. Sometimes one may end up in a circumstance no one prepared them for, pregnancy. Finding oneself to
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Parents and Mental Health Discussions
Parents and Mental Health Discussions In many Indian households, the big hush-hush topic is mental health, especially when it comes to teenagers and young adults. In a video about the issue, one of Instagram’s favorite content creators, Kareema Barry, brings up common remarks that Indian parents are infamous for making. When you’re in tears laughing about
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Learning Disabilities Awareness Month: Let’s break the stigma
Learning Disabilities Awareness Month: Let’s break the stigma Normalizing learning disabilities. Disability is a term identified with individuals that experience difficulty in carrying out certain activities. These impairments can be cognitive, intellectual, mental, physical, etc. Individuals with any disabilities bear stigma & stereotypes. Among these, learning disabilities suffer the most with mental health issues on
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A Widow’s Yearning: The Loss of Sex
A Widow’s Yearning: The Loss of Sex Introduction: Death and Grief Death hits all of us hard. It is often said that the sadness, the despair and the aching pain that stems from the loss of a loved one lessens as time passes, but it isn’t true. Not for everyone at least. For some people,
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Bras: to wear or not to wear?
Bras: to wear or not to wear? Written by- Medha Sharma and Suhasi Dewan Breaking the Myths around Bras There are ample amounts of myths about going braless that dictate our lives since time immemorial. The sociological constructs are so rigid and programmed in our society that it gives little to no space for a conflicting idea
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What a Slut!
What a Slut! Written by- Abhivyakti Gupta & Vagmi Sharma Who is a Sex Worker? “Unethical! Illegal! What a disgrace! This is socially unacceptable!! Shameless!” These are often the words that come to one’s mind when they hear the word ‘sex worker’. According to WHO, sex work is defined as the provision of sexual services for money or
Benevolent Sexism
Benevolent Sexism Written by- Aadya Gupta and Nandini Shukl The Uglier Side of Sexism Sexism has two sides, the hostile and well recognized, which consists of denying women access to areas deemed ‘important’, and the other (falsely) benevolent, which involves praising their skills in traditionally feminine and undervalued tasks. These two sides combine to form ambivalent
Breaking Down the ‘Ideal Body’
Breaking Down the ‘Ideal Body’ Written by- Asher Kaul The Vitruvian Man One of the first and most widely accepted variants of the ideal body type was by Leonardo da Vinci, in the form of the Vitruvian Man. This concept had been around for a long time, but his take on it was quite unique. This rendering of
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