How To Be an Ally? A Guide
Here’s your comprehensive guide to support our queer friends and be an ally as heterosexual individuals this Pride month!
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What Does A Perfect Penis Look Like?
We’re always left wondering if we’re perfect. Penis size, shape, colour, among other characteristics is a matter of concern. Let’s find out what a “perfect penis” is!
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Embracing Tradition and Inclusivity: The Vibrant Festivities of Kanamara Matsuri, Japan’s Iconic Penis Festival.
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.
Balancing Taboos & Awareness through China’s Guangzhou Sex Festival
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.
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Ambubachi Mela- the Menstruating Devi of Assam
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.
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Why should advertisements strive for more healthy representation?
Media representation plays a crucial role in shaping the minds and building a formative understanding of important issues.
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Sex in the Media
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
How Do School Uniforms Shape Sexuality?
School dress codes navigate through the narrow spaces to establish a power dynamic in young minds.
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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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