Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Of Giggles, Whispers and Embarrassed Teachers : The ‘Sex-Ed’ Classes That Taught Us Nothing
"Let's talk about sex" written twice - once in black, and once in blue in bold stencil format on a white background. Below are two stick figures. A cloud bubble shows one of them saying, "OMG".

By Nishtha Relan This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz.  I remember an…

By Curated Content
January 16, 2015
Of Giggles, Whispers and Embarrassed Teachers : The ‘Sex-Ed’ Classes That Taught Us Nothing
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.

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
लव मैटर्स – सुरक्षित, संतोषजनक और निरपेक्ष
A young woman in a white Indian suit and red chunni standing on a balcony with a coffee mug in her hands. Her hair is let down and pulled over the left shoulder. She is smiling broadly.

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
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."

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

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?”
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
A man sits leisurely with his legs on his chair in a theatre. The audience chairs are coloured red, and are numbered. Many more men who are out-of-focus in this picture sit in similar fashion in rows behind him, looking at the screen.

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
Desire and Sexuality Education: Teaching about Romance, Love, Infatuation and Other Such Attractions
A woman's headshot. She is looking brightly at the camera. She is wearing a red bindi, earrings, and a black and white-coloured suit. Her hair is left open.

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
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
Photo of TARSHI's founder Radhika Chandiramani. She has curly shoulder length hair and is wearing a grey sweater over a maroon top
February 1, 2015
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
Aahung’s Music Video ‘Dil ki Awaz’
People moving on an Indian road. Fruitsellers, young boys, a woman. On both side are yellow-coloured buildings for flats. Subtitle reads, "This question... this cry... may be heard by someone."
February 1, 2015
Aahung’s Music Video ‘Dil ki Awaz’
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.

[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
Are ‘Sexpert’ Columns The Only Options Left For Our Deepest, Most Intimate Doubts?
A woman holding a green-cloured tooothpaste tube, on which is written "expert" with the letter "s" prefixed before it manually by a pasting a piece of paper after drawing an S.

By Kirrat Sachdeva This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz.  As soon as I…

By Curated Content
February 3, 2015
Are ‘Sexpert’ Columns The Only Options Left For Our Deepest, Most Intimate Doubts?
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.

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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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

[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
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".

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
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