On Women and Hysteria: How Colonialism Reduced Indigenous Sexualities From Across The Globe To A Pschological Condition
Colonialism in Medicine

Hysterical Women

While the modern day sexual revolution sheds ample light on the benefits of navigating orgasms with a vibrator and its potential benefits for people with gender dysphoria, disability, chronic illne...

Desi Porn— the where and how of viewing mature content in India

Desi Porn— the where and how of viewing mature content in India

What did India’s ban on porn really do to the country’s erotic entertainment industry? Is the industry really dead, or have we found new ways to work around the law to create and distribute mature ...

What is Ethical Porn?

What is Ethical Porn?

What makes porn ethical? Is it in the contracts, negotiations and payments alone? Or can ethics be found in language, titles, thumbnails, the way a camera captures the performers and showcases thei...

Experiencing Assault as a Queer Bahujan Man

Experiencing Assault as a Queer Bahujan Man

How do our social status and caste location affect our everyday safety and sexual interactions? Anon writes on his experience with healing from an incident of assault, and bridging the gaps between...

Why am I getting sex ed from a 30 second ad?

Why am I getting sex ed from a 30 second ad?

As brands like Stayfree and Durex champion the cause of better sexual awareness in India we have to ask— should brands actually be the main source of free conversations around sex and safety?

How the Supreme Court’s historical judgment of 2022 can affect us

How the Supreme Court’s historical judgment of 2022 can affect us

Does the language around maternity, pregnancies, gender and sex play a key role in how we contextualise our life experiences and seek legal recourse and support? Here’s a breakdown of the Supreme C...

The Art of Living with a Suit of Thorns: reflections of a conversion therapy survivor

The Art of Living with a Suit of Thorns: reflections of a conversion therapy survivor

Abigail writes on surviving the many violences of queer and trans conversion in India, on learning to live with a fire within, and turning that fire into violets for her queer families across time ...

All you need to know about contraceptives in India

All you need to know about contraceptives in India

How is birth control different from emergency contraceptive pills? Does India even have options for birth control? Do contraceptives always prevent pregnancy by affecting the person’s hormone cycle...

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Is BDSM inherently sexual? Or can risk-aware and safe kink practices be a great space for aces to explore their own relationships with power and control, impact and restraint too? Prapti Sarkar wri...

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Tie Me Up So I Can Be Free: finding release in restraints

Vaayu shares his story on how rope play and the nuances of building trust with someone through bondage was the very act that finally set him free.