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Editorial: Intimacy and Sexuality
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In our mid-month issue, Rahul Sen writes of the impossibility of intimacy, of the gnawing pain and underlying cruelties it may unsheathe and how it is at best an illusion while Pavel reminds us of how, in our search for intimacy, we keep bits and parts of our lost loves and they keep parts of us, and how through being loved by them we learn also to love ourselves.

By TARSHI
February 15, 2019
Editorial: Intimacy and Sexuality
Issue in Focus: Knowing Sex
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We might need, therefore, to uncouple sexuality from intimacy because they do not necessarily belong together. Intimacy points to the comfort of knowledge while sexuality often shatters what knowledge we think we have.

By Madhavi Menon
February 1, 2019
Issue in Focus: Knowing Sex
Video Page: The Challenge of Being Close
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The process of connecting with another person, opening up to them, and getting close enough to build an intimate relationship is fraught with complexities and grey-areas, which often has a marked impact on how we interact with that person and how we choose to conduct ourselves around them.

By Curated Content
February 1, 2019
Video Page: The Challenge of Being Close
Reclaiming Intimacy: Sex Positivity and A Cultural Grammar That Values ‘Personhood’
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As we move toward destigmatising the topic of sex for all genders, we should include the language of intimacy as we collectively create a new cultural grammar around sex.

By Abhaya Tatavarti
February 1, 2019
Reclaiming Intimacy: Sex Positivity and A Cultural Grammar That Values ‘Personhood’