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Sex before marriage hampers healthy relationship: Study
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe study looked at the effects of sex before marriage, and found that early sexual satisfaction stunts the development of key ingredients of a healthy relationship, including caring and understanding.
When the AIDS money dries up: Red lights flashing for sex workers?
Roy • 13 years agoThe crisis of AIDS allowed sex workers to organise for their rights. But if AIDS isn't quite that much of a crisis anymore what happens to all those gains? Sex workers at the Sex Workers Freedom Festival in Kolkata face the flip side of success.
The middle-aged Indian man and (more) sex: The dirty secret
Roy • 13 years agoA new study tells the middle aged man how he can get a boost in the bedroom without popping a pill. And stave off diabetes along the way. Sounds like a win-win but can it work in India?
Drugs, alcohol, tight underwear don't affect men's fertility: study
Fp Archives • 13 years agoA study by scientists from the universities of Manchester and Sheffield has found that many common lifestyle choices make little difference to male fertility.
How the Internet killed the porno star
Chaudhry • 13 years agoWhile a blessing to its consumer – getting revved up has never been so easy – Internet porn is the silver dagger plunged into the heart of the industry. And its demise is no cause for celebration.
Sthraina Kamasutra: A sex manual for women
Fp Staff • 13 years agoSthraina Kamasutra by KR Indira rewrites the ancient text as a quasi-feminist manual that will help women "win the battle between the sheets." But do its intriguing suggestions go far enough?
Baby, let's all screw around: The great monogamy vs infidelity debate
Chaudhry • 13 years agoIn recent years, infidelity has acquired a subversive cachet that makes old-fashioned monogamy seem safe and repressed. After centuries of being bullied into monogamy, we are now urged to embrace more enlightened open relationships.
The brave new era of 'may be' virgins
Fp Staff • 13 years agoIndian men may be still hung up on virginity, but some are increasingly willing to adopt a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy. As for the rest: they may be just as clueless, but just don't know it.
Denial of sex is grounds for divorce, rules Delhi HC
Fp Archives • 13 years agoSex is the foundation of marriage and marriage without sex is an "anathema", rules the court.
Internet porn isn't immoral, just dangerous
Chaudhry • 13 years agoThe black-and-white debate over pornography often misses the a simple truth: porn is not porn is not porn. Now that we've joined the global club of voyeurs, it's best to remember a simple caveat: watcher beware.