2015 February

“Is there anything you want to ask me?”
A young woman smiling. She is wearing a white top, and has her hair open.
“Is there anything you want to ask me?”

A lot of research concludes that globally, young people aren’t learning enough about sexuality, and that they would like to…
By Padmini Iyer
February 1, 2015
“Is there anything you want to ask me?”
‘I Am A Woman, And I Masturbate. Stop Demonising Me For It’
Photo showing a woman's legs as she lies on her bed over a light brown quilt, wearing black shorts.
‘I Am A Woman, And I Masturbate. Stop Demonising Me For It’

By Nishtha Relan This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. I have faint memories of…
By Curated Content
February 17, 2015
‘I Am A Woman, And I Masturbate. Stop Demonising Me For It’
लव मैटर्स – सुरक्षित, संतोषजनक और निरपेक्ष
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लव मैटर्स – सुरक्षित, संतोषजनक और निरपेक्ष

सेक्स और यौनिकता को लेकर हमारे समाज में बहुत सारी वर्जित बातें हैं – चाहे वो हस्तमैथुन के बारे में…
By Vithika Yadav
February 1, 2015
लव मैटर्स – सुरक्षित, संतोषजनक और निरपेक्ष
Years Of Sexual Abuse In A Family, The Collective Angst, And A Final Closure: This Is My Story
A series of pink and green placards that read 'Teach Safe Touch'
Years Of Sexual Abuse In A Family, The Collective Angst, And A Final Closure: This Is My Story

This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. The author chose to remain anonymous. Last year…
By Curated Content
February 19, 2015
Years Of Sexual Abuse In A Family, The Collective Angst, And A Final Closure: This Is My Story
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Remember the ‘first time’? And probably, you, like many of us, were plagued by fears of  ‘What if…?’ But instead…
By TARSHI
February 15, 2015
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Review: TARSHI’s Orange Book
Book cover. "The Orange Book" written in orange, and "A teacher's workbook on sexuality education" as its subtitle written in black below it on a white background. The box with the white background takes the centre of the book, the remaining part of the book is coloured orange.
Review: TARSHI’s Orange Book

TARSHI’s ‘The Orange Book : A Teacher’s Workbook on Sexuality‘, ensures that we acknowledge the presence of the ‘elephant in…
By Simran Luthra
February 1, 2015
Review: TARSHI’s Orange Book
Porn For All Its Pleasures, Is Not Reality. It’s Entertainment.
"Free XXX movie" written in bold. A small photo over it reads "censored". Two more small blurred pictures are dropped over it.
Porn For All Its Pleasures, Is Not Reality. It’s Entertainment.

By Karthik Shankar This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz.  It was fifth grade;…
By Curated Content
February 15, 2015
Porn For All Its Pleasures, Is Not Reality. It’s Entertainment.
Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
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Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute

I recently had the wonderful opportunity of attending the seven-day Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute (SGRI)* organised by Delhi-based organisation…
By Deepa Ranganathan
February 15, 2015
Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
It Takes A Community To Protect A Child
A cartoon sketch showing a community of people belonging to various ages and genders - two women in sarees, one girl child, one male child sitting in a wheelchair, and four adult men - holding up placards with various solgans about child protection
It Takes A Community To Protect A Child

[slideshow_deploy id=’5400′] TULIR uses these posters in their advocacy work to prevent sexual violence against children. These posters address children…
By TULIR CPHCSA
February 15, 2015
It Takes A Community To Protect A Child
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
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Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery

I have great respect for Michel Foucault and his views on sexuality in our present era. While speaking on the…
By Sonia Soans
February 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
February 1, 2015
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
From Knowing To Doing
A line drawing of a fountain of water. Over different parts of the fountain are written the following words: "ovary", "stigma", "anther", "filament", "androgenophore".
From Knowing To Doing

At 13, I could (correctly!) explain the reproductive system of a plant. I’d been rather intimate with the anatomy of…
By Rishita Nandagiri
February 15, 2015
From Knowing To Doing
Desire and Sexuality Education: Teaching about Romance, Love, Infatuation and Other Such Attractions
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Desire and Sexuality Education: Teaching about Romance, Love, Infatuation and Other Such Attractions

Sexuality Education is not only about Sexual and Reproductive Health, but ideally also aims to address the question of adolescent…
By Ketaki Chowkhani
February 1, 2015
Desire and Sexuality Education: Teaching about Romance, Love, Infatuation and Other Such Attractions
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
Screenshot of an online forum discussing socialists "training boys to be good girlfriends and not to act like men."
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes

No matter how many optional ways I’ve considered for starting this piece, I keep returning to ‘hot’ and ‘masala’. I’ve…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2015
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
Brushstrokes: Price of Silence’s ‘Cutting Tradition’ piece
Stage performance of a few women in white coats holding down a woman on a table to commit Female Genital Mutilation, while others throw red rose pertals in air. One woman stands in the front and centre of the stage looking solemnly.
Brushstrokes: Price of Silence’s ‘Cutting Tradition’ piece

[slideshow_deploy id=’5227′] Female genital mutilation, commonly referred to as FGM, is the partial or total removal of the female genitalia…
By Price of Silence
February 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Price of Silence’s ‘Cutting Tradition’ piece
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