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Why it is Important To Not Include Everything in the Queer Bracket
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I personally feel that any cause, specially one like kink that is in its nascent stages, needs its own space to grow, to affect enough people, before it merges with the larger cause of queerness, or sexuality, or even humanity.

By Asmi
May 1, 2019
Why it is Important To Not Include Everything in the Queer Bracket
When Pleasure And Pain Are Confused With Basic Rights
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Though I come from a very conservative family, being open about female masturbation and watching porn didn’t seem to bother me. Yes, people have oohed and aahed at me for being so. I am still the same, proudly.

By Micky Nair
December 2, 2019
When Pleasure And Pain Are Confused With Basic Rights
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about kink
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I realise that a lot of men want (and need) to dominate women not because it is mutually pleasurable but because it reinforces patriarchal hierarchies. The taboo around kink, as a larger space of exploration, and BDSM, as a part of it, only furthers the violence, intensifying the apparent mystery of these subjects.

By Trijita
March 17, 2023
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about kink
Video: How to be a Friend to Yourself
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This thought-provoking, luminously illustrated The School of Life video reminds us of self-compassion being essential to building our own selves up, and being a safe space where we can extend the same love and imagination to our vulnerabilities, insecurities, fears, and doubts as we do to our friends.

By Curated Content
July 5, 2021
Video: How to be a Friend to Yourself
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality
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The responsibilities attached to BDSM are frankly the same as that for any other sex act. But since the submissive partner(s) are placing themselves at a position of vulnerability, these responsibilities mark the difference between sex and abuse. Have fun, but responsibly.

By Feminism in India
December 15, 2021
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality
So what if I’m my own voyeur? — Connections and Disconnections with Desire(s)
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Funnily enough, porn played a massive role in helping me articulate my queerness (I am pansexual) and my even queerer desires.

By Ankita Dhar Karmakar
October 17, 2022
So what if I’m my own voyeur? — Connections and Disconnections with Desire(s)
Sex Toys? Yes, But No One Should Know
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When I first decided to cater to the sex-toy related needs of the Indian market, I knew one thing for sure: the biggest concern for me to address would be privacy.

By Raj Armani
September 2, 2019
Sex Toys? Yes, But No One Should Know
Review: ‘Bound To Be Free’
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‘Bound to be Free’ is a travelling exhibition of exquisitely shot personal and professional photographs, making its way from New…

By Neha Naqvi
January 1, 2014
Review: ‘Bound To Be Free’
Pleasure and Sexuality – What Is Beyond?
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Over the years, my understanding of pleasure has changed. However, much of it is thanks to external inputs. It is thanks to people of all gender identities sharing how they feel pleasure in different ways.

By Asmi
February 3, 2020
Pleasure and Sexuality – What Is Beyond?
Playing With Love
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I’m a sucker for love. And I don’t want to be a party pooper either. There is lots I have…

By Jaya Sharma
February 1, 2016
Playing With Love
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
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Pandemics have a profound psychological impact. They are known to disrupt one’s sense of safety, security, certainty, control, concordance, and…

By Ansha Patel
July 5, 2021
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
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In a society where queer sexuality had been demonised in not just mainstream fiction but also mainstream culture, the erotic fanfiction that emerged out of kinkfests became an important source of queer sex-positivity.

By Rohini Banerjee
July 15, 2019
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
MY VAGINA IS DUKHA?
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Ageing vaginas in ageing female bodies are joked about. But a vagina shouldn’t have the task of pleasing anybody but itself first. To begin with, we’ll have to love and respect our vaginas in order to pleasure them. Love them just as they are. If they feel a little dry, don’t despair. Use a lubricant or a little coconut oil. If my labia are unshapely, they’re still my labia and respond very nicely to gentleness and tenderness. If I don’t love and respect my ageing body, in need of gentle, loving, patient care, then who will, for God’s sake?

By Nighat Gandhi
July 5, 2021
MY VAGINA IS DUKHA?
My First Memories of Dabbling into online BDSM still Empower me after more than a Decade
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If not for these memories, my exploration of sexuality would perhaps have stopped a few years ago, when I was single for a long time and didn’t know if I could find someone like me.

By Asmi
April 16, 2018
My First Memories of Dabbling into online BDSM still Empower me after more than a Decade
Maybe age is more than just a number?  My discovery of my sexuality and sexual preferences over the years
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Age is not just a number, like it is often said to be. It is a lot combined together. It is about grace, it is about exposure, it is about knowledge, it is about the ability to fight back. And yet, in endless other ways, age IS just a number.

By Asmi
March 1, 2021
Maybe age is more than just a number?  My discovery of my sexuality and sexual preferences over the years
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