Performance Anxiety And The Hush-Hush Not only has patriarchal conditioning exhausted a man socially. It has also culturally, and familially, but even on the sexual forefront, men aren’t spared. While a woman faces condemnation for sexualizing herself at all, a man is somehow responsible for a mindblowing sexual experience. It somehow becomes as his life […]
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Let’s Talk About Men Who Don’t Really Feel Sexually Attracted Pratisandhi interviewed Dr. Pragati Singh on the prevalence of asexuality and asexual men. She is a Medical graduate from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, and an SRHR Consultant. She is the founder of Indian Aces, an initiative that started as a community for aces (asexual people)
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Speaking Sex: An Interview With Danielle This interview shares insights from Danielle Bezalel, MPH about sexual and reproductive health and the journey of the Sex Ed with DB Podcast. This interview was conducted by Subhi, a content curator at Pratisandhi. Q – What is your idea of sex? Danielle– I really love this question. I think that
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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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‘Badhaai Ho’ – Mom, Dad, That’s Just Gross! A tricky theme in the garb of wit and humor, the film Badhaai Ho tackles the apprehensions regarding sex and pregnancy in the most Indian and relatable way ever. There is no false trope of empowerment, no long feminist narrations, or any kind of overzealous attempts at
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Parents and ‘The Talk’ It all starts when dads smartly reach for the television remote as soon as Cameron Diaz starts kissing Tom Cruise passionately while the entire family is enjoying movie night on the couch. The moment her lips wrap around Tom’s, your dad’s fingers wrap around and clutch the remote quickly as he switches
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Stereo about the Stereotypes At the very onset, this article will clear certain preliminary points. First, the treatment of stereotypes is not based on the clinical, ‘authenticate’ definition of any manual of psychology. Second, the article does not claim that there has not been any progress, but only highlights the underlying forces, parallel to the definition of
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Surveying Sex-Ed in Public’s Secret Thoughts “You can read that part on your own, at home,” said most of the Biology teachers while we were in school. “You’re a kid. You’ll understand it once you get married”, said mom and dad. Intrigued by this shady and obscure world, we all did our bit of research
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Sex on my Mind It is unfortunate to realize that we have been so conditioned to thinking of sex as a primal instinct, we forget that it is far less mechanical than we sometimes assume it to be. Sexual arousal is not just about the right aphrodisiacs, a phenomenal drive, or, if you’re fortunate, love.
Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby Puberty is a word we’re semi-unacquainted with. Contemporary education has made us remember all the characteristic features of puberty such as breast growth, menstruation, and growth of pubic hair in women and development of the penis, deepening of the voice, the emergence of defined Adam’s apple in males, and whatnot.
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