The Internet and Sexuality

Mumbai Artist Draws Dating Life in the Digital Age
Its cartoon of a guy wearing onky an underwear and a red cape (like superman) and a girl is holding his hand wearing a t-shirt with S written on it, she's also wearing a cape. Both of them are wearing sunglasses.The background of the image features buildings and cars.

All this online dating activity must surely produce amusing stories. It was with this thought that Mumbai-based writer and illustrator Indu Kumar set about her art project #100IndianTinderTales.

By Curated Content
June 1, 2017
Mumbai Artist Draws Dating Life in the Digital Age
How We Can Make Our Cities Safer Using Crowdsourced Data
The photo shows a red hand trying to shut the mouth of a woman. There’s a caption on the photo saying sexual harassment is a crime and a yellow caption in between says, break the silence.

Sexual violence is a global pandemic affecting one in three women at least once in their lifetime. The statistics in India are equally shocking. National Crime Records Bureau statistics of 2014 indicate that a rape occurs every 20 minutes in India.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
June 1, 2017
How We Can Make Our Cities Safer Using Crowdsourced Data
Video Corner: Interested in a Boyfriend Who Lives on Your Phone?
Its a doodle image of a girl lying on her bed and talking to a guy on videochat n her phone.

Relationships that begin online are like all others – they begin, they develop, and sometimes they end. But what if you could find the perfect partner online?

By Curated Content
June 1, 2017
Video Corner: Interested in a Boyfriend Who Lives on Your Phone?
Early ‘Love Marriage’ and the Big, Bad Internet
Its an image of keyboard's control key.

In fact, the Internet actually allows adolescents access to a wide range of information including on sexual health. A 2015 study by Marie Stopes International[2] (an organisation that provides contraception and safe abortion services) found that the main source of information on sexual health among adolescents is the Internet.

By Shubha Kayastha and Indu Nepal
June 1, 2017
Early ‘Love Marriage’ and the Big, Bad Internet
Ctr Alt Swipe Right: Sex, Sexuality and the Internet in India
Its an image featuring only the hands of a person, typing something on their keyboard. Screen reader support enabled. Its an image featuring only the hands of a person, typing something on their keyboard.

The promises of the Internet are, of course, highly contextual. The Internet will mean very different things to a person who has access to their own mobile phone in a city with a reliable and affordable broadband or WiFi connection, as compared to someone who does not have access to a reliable Internet connection or who is unable to go to a shop to exchange downloaded songs and clips through an SD card.

By Siddharth Narrain
June 1, 2017
Ctr Alt Swipe Right: Sex, Sexuality and the Internet in India
Pyaar Online: Cruising Online for Love
Its a doodle of a girl and boy sitting facing their backs at eachoher. The girl is, wearing a yellow flower dress, looking at her phone. While the boy is using his laptop and has a red cup of coffee in one hand.

Generations come and go but the quest for love remains eternal. In the early 2000s, most of us millennials were…

By Divya Swaminathan
June 1, 2017
Pyaar Online: Cruising Online for Love
अगर इन्टरनेट का अस्तित्व ही न होता तो?
Its a selfie of the writer with open hair, wearing glasses, black bindi and a small yellow flower in her hair.

अगर इन्टरनेट न होता, तो मुझे लगता है कि मैं खुद में बहुत ही असुरक्षित महसूस करती। इस बात से…

By Ragamalika Karthikeyan
June 15, 2017
अगर इन्टरनेट का अस्तित्व ही न होता तो?
How do you Imagine a Feminist Internet?
The photo shows a girl slying naked in her bed looking at her laptop. The backgorund of the photo features feminst symbols, flowers and butterflies.

By: Amla Pisharody In August 2016, APC along with some activists and feminists which also included Feminism in India revised and…

By Curated Content
June 15, 2017
How do you Imagine a Feminist Internet?
पहली बार इंटरनेट से जुड़ते लोग
The background of the photo has the 'f' symbol of faacebook. The image features a a person (silhouette) looking at their phone, which shows the news feed page of Facebook app.

फोटोग्राफ़र लॉरा डे रेनल ऐसे संगठनों की कोशिशों को कैमरे में क़ैद कर रही हैं, जो लोगों को पहली बार…

By Curated Content
June 15, 2017
पहली बार इंटरनेट से जुड़ते लोग
How Queer are your Dating Apps?
Its a photo where there is a text that says, 'I saw you on tinder' in red.

Online dating websites and apps are one of those technological innovations that people did not think would ever do well….

By Smita Vanniyar
June 15, 2017
How Queer are your Dating Apps?
Interview: Dr. Anja Kovacs of the Internet Democracy Project
It's an image of Anja Kovacs,wearing a blue cardigan addressing the media.

Anja speaks with Shikha Aleya about the spread of digital surveillance into almost every aspect of our lives, its implications and what we need to do about it.

By Shikha Aleya
June 15, 2017
Interview: Dr. Anja Kovacs of the Internet Democracy Project
How young Kashmiris are finding love in the time of conflict and curfew
A young (Kashmiri) couple sitting on a bench facing backwards, looking at the garden.

The internet is playing a major role in activism in the Valley, and love and relationships too Onaiza Drabu Since…

By Curated Content
June 15, 2017
How young Kashmiris are finding love in the time of conflict and curfew
Wanting Monogamy as 1,946 Men Await my Swipe
In Plainspeak English Audit In Plainspeak English Audit 100% 10 Its a cartoon, where a girl is sitting on a chair facing her back and choosing boys on a dating application. There are a huge number boys in the photo and out of all of them, the girl chose one who is standing on the counter. Screen reader support enabled. Its a cartoon, where a girl is sitting on a chair facing her back and choosing boys on a dating application. There are a huge number boys in the photo and out of all of them, the girl chose one who is standing on the counter.

Leaving Michael’s apartment one Tuesday morning, I smiled and said, “Have a good class today.” That may not sound like…

By Curated Content
June 15, 2017
Wanting Monogamy as 1,946 Men Await my Swipe
The Editorial: The Internet and Sexuality
cartoon sketch of a hand holding up a mobile phone; on the screen is pictures of more mobile phones

Our desire to connect is perhaps one of the human aspirations that both Sexuality and the Internet serve. And with the Internet we now have new ways, unthought of even twenty years ago, of connecting with each other, and even at times with ourselves, finding aspects of our selves that we did not know existed.

By TARSHI
June 15, 2017
The Editorial: The Internet and Sexuality