Body and Sexuality
Our most powerful, sexy, responsive and attractive sexual organ may be the mind, but it is through the body that we express and experience our sexuality. Our body is our first and primary home; whether we truly feel at home in it is another matter.
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Jyotsna Siddharth is an artist, actor, activist and writer who has been working on DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) with non-profit,…
Around the age of 22, I made up my mind to make my body smaller. I worked out, imposed food…
The first sensations that we experience are related to and derived from our body. It is a site of experience,…
Please tread gently. This poem has potentially disturbing content. I see death, perched at my window.Sometimes, they even sit on…
A man must do it all with a ‘hard edge’A little rough, nasty, brutishWith courage and temperance, wisdom and justiceWith…
इसमें से कौन सा सवाल ख़ुद से पूछना वाजिब होगा – मुझे पहली बार कब अहसास हुआ कि मैं दुबली…
कहां गया मेरा बदन? ये सवाल मैंने पिछले दो सालों में ख़ुद से कई बार पूछा है। लंबे समय तक…
Duration: 2015 – ongoingMedium: Albumen Prints from digital negatives. I was perceived as too ‘feminine’ throughout my adolescence. I faced…
The simple truth is that my body and I are having an affair. We each obsess about the other, ask questions and desire each other so much, that it often borders on the shameless. My body is more in love with me, I suspect, than the other way around.
For me, pregnancy was a strange state of being so present and so aware of my body, while at the same time being separate from it. This experience really did a number on me during those nine months and during the postpartum period.
Like some perverted Pavlovian desire,
the wafting smell of fresh soap
that fills up the air in the bath
has my pupils dilate when walking out.
Waxing my body for the first time last year to have silky skin like the women on Veet’s box but ended up with rashes instead.