Sexuality

In COVID-ravaged America, much ado about masturbation: What Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom faux pas exposes

This week, the world of the autoerotic was thrown into the spotlight: Jeffrey Toobin, scholar, author and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker, was suspended after he was spotted masturbating on a Zoom event.

Beyond saas-bahu sagas, how Ekta Kapoor champions intersectional feminism in her films as producer

The perception of Ekta Kapoor as the soap-opera queen is a unidimensional thought, given the exciting envelope-pushing films she has been backing as a producer

Bois Locker Room case underscores vital need for radical, political reimagining of an education that liberates us

The Bois Locker Room and the crisis of our society in its current breakdown have a lot to say about each other. Both of them tell us that we have reached the limits of the system we live in. If the way out is together, then we need an education on what it means to do that.

How Nancy Friday helped generations of Indian women to acknowledge their sexual desires

Nancy Friday normalised the idea of women having sexual desires and liking it, something society in the ‘70s was completely unprepared for

My short, secret career as a writer of erotica: How writing steamy fiction helped me come to terms with my sexuality

The peak of my erotica writing journey happened to intersect with a time when I was strongly questioning my sexuality. For someone who was coming to terms with her attraction to women while still dating a man, erotica became a cathartic canvas for being able to express my desires in a healthy way.

Forced sex fantasies and rape culture: What does one have to do with the other?

How can the many women who experience rape fantasies, but reject rape culture, reconcile their erogeny and ideology, especially in an era of heightened cultural scrutiny?

Wanted: Superhero with alt sexuality in films

With the world opening up on LGBTQ+ inclusion, the time seems right for the launch of a queer superhero franchise on screen

The Queer Take: Embracing the hidden parts of your life by casting aside deeply ingrained lessons

On reading and hearing stories from other queer friends, I see that everyone in my community always knew to hide in the beginning — just like I did

How to talk to your children about sex: Educator Anju Kish on addressing questions about puberty and sexuality

Anju Kish's objective behind setting up Untaboo was to bring about a change in mindset and rid kids of the shyness and self-consciousness associated with sex education.

SC decriminalises adultery: Triumph of individual's rights over social institutions like marriage is the real victory

With the striking down of adultery under Section 497 of the IPC, constitutional law has finally entered the institution of marriage in a bid to ensure constitutional freedoms, destroy hierarchies, eliminate inequalities and attempt to democratise matrimonial relationships