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My Asexual Fantasy
We asked – What does intimacy mean to you? What’s a fantasy you’ve always had? What’s something you’d like to do with a date or partner? 8 ace people responded with their imaginations of desire and pleasure.
Oct 30, 2024
‘Mom told me not to peek out of blanket and go back to sleep’
Seven people share the moment they realised that their parents were sexual beings, too
Sep 17, 2024
D se Disability, D se Desire
How do we expand the world to make room for all kinds of bodies and minds and loves and lives? Some awesome people with disabilities shared their stories with us. On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are sharing them with you.
Dec 03, 2022
My bisexual panic
Of course, there were some guys I thought looked good. Who’d turn away from Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds? But would I date a guy if I could?
Feb 05, 2024
Smoothing The Rough Corners Of Kink And Pain
My journey towards finding pleasure through pain in BDSM was rough. But I’ve learnt how to make it pleasurable.
Nov 27, 2023
I Thought I’d Be Too Cool For Vanity. But, It Was A Struggle
Author Shormistha Mukherjee on struggling with self-image and reconnecting with intimacy during and post her breast cancer treatment.
Sep 22, 2023
My Body Has Become An Open Wound
Chemo saved her from cancer, but took away the ability to enjoy sex and intimacy. In an interview with Agents of Ishq, Amulya*, cancer survivor, unpacks her emotions of life post treatment
Sep 22, 2023
Teachers Across India Share The AOI Material They Used And How Their Students Reacted To It!
#HappyTeachersDay
Sep 05, 2023
Maitri Karar: A Gujarati custom that allow queer relationships legitimacy
When polygamy was banned in 1956, the Maitri Karar was invented to allow men to support their mistresses. And then, queer couples used it to live together legally.
Jun 16, 2023
What Does Fictosexual Mean?
Falling in lou with fictional characters koi fiction nahin!
Mar 17, 2023
"Conscious Uncoupling is more about emotional freedom from the negative patterns of the past" An Interview with Dr. Suchitra
Dr. Suchitra tells us how to end relationships in an empowered and dignified way!
Mar 09, 2023
Hyenas, Orangatuns And Discovering My (A) Sexuality
Questions, questions, and I had no answers. Until a Reddit meme showed me "Asexuals are…"
Feb 27, 2023
Asexuality Ki ABC - An AOI Primer
Can asexuality transform how we see pleasure itself?
Oct 30, 2022
Teachers Tell Us Why They Need Sex-Ed In Schools! AOI x The Gender Lab
35 teachers share their stories, needs and demands for Sex-Ed in schools!
Jul 14, 2022
From Sex Work Geographies to Intimate Cities: An Interview with Manjima Bhattacharjya
Manjima tells us about the shifting landscape of sex work, and its history!
Jun 28, 2022
The Many Journeys of an Old-Fashioned Butch: An Interview With Dr. Shruti Chakravarty
Dr. Shruti Chakravarty talks to us about queerness, gender, labels, community and love.
Mar 22, 2022
The Case Of The Missing Butterflies In My Tummy
I thought if I gave myself a push, I’d fall into the hormone pool everyone was swimming in.
Feb 01, 2022
Why We Need Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Why CSE helps dismantle the sexual vulnerability time-bomb!
Jul 03, 2021
Internet Sexplorer: How Digital Laws Impact Online Intimacy, Privacy and Discovery
How long is the arm of the law with digital freedom and desire?
Jan 10, 2021
Why Does Guilt Follow Pleasure - An Investigative Documentary About Me
Moving from guilt to satisfaction in sex!
Nov 09, 2020
It Was ‘Twilight’. I Woke Up Bisexual.
How one can stumble upon one's (bi)sexuality with the help of fiction / fan-fiction
Sep 23, 2020
Looking For Privacy In Laws
A list of laws which play a part in governing private lives
Sep 15, 2020
Romantic Sensual Asexual - That’s Me
Can one be asexual and terribly romantic too?
Aug 24, 2020
S.W.A.G. Secretly We Are Gay
Two closeted gay men, who are married to women, fall in love with each other.
Mar 01, 2020
The (Secret) Porn That Turns Me On
Must our fantasies mirror our real-life sexual preferences?
Jan 27, 2020
Sunny Leone: The Porn Star Even Your Granny Knows
How did a porn star become a household name in India?
Jan 16, 2020
Prime Time Porn – An Information Striptease
Your doubts on porn, dispelled based on the book 'Cybersexy' by Richa Kaul Padte
Jan 07, 2020
Is ‘Good Touch’ and ‘Bad Touch’ an Unhelpful Shortcut to Teaching Kids about Consent?
Is focusing all our energy only on preventing abuse, instead of building autonomy, missing the woods for the trees?
Oct 08, 2019
Who is a ‘Tight’ Vagina Meant to be Pleasurable For?
A doctor asks: can we please have conversations around (hetero)sexual pleasure that don’t focus on ‘editing’ women’s bodies for men’s sake?
Sep 09, 2019
I Believe in the Promises Made by Passing Strangers: Cruising and the City
Leaving behind the threshold of our homes, what other boundaries do we cross?
Jul 23, 2019
‘Queer’ Kya Hai?
Your favourite agents are here with another #SuperSaralExplainer!
Jun 04, 2019
Personal Life aur Political Empowerment Linked Hai Kya?
The stories of these five women show us how they reimagined their adult lives
Apr 24, 2019
Quotes from The Courts About Women and the Right to Consent!
When courtrooms recognize women as individuals and their right to choose, the quotes are bound to be dhamakedar!
Mar 14, 2019
To be Truly Sex Positive, I Think We Need to Step Back From Sex
Between being strictly platonic and having sex is a sea of sensuality. Are we ready to see that yet?
Feb 27, 2019
What the Law Tells Us about Relationships in India
You might be surprised – in good and bad ways.
Feb 19, 2019
What is the Age of Consent in India?
A series of handy cards to help you figure out the ins and outs of what the law says.
Jan 22, 2019
Why are People Opposing the Surrogacy Bill?
Here’s a guide to help you out.
Jan 11, 2019
Wondering Why People are Protesting the Anti-Trafficking Bill? Here’s a Quick Guide
In past days you would have seen that people are protesting the Anti-Trafficking Bill alongside the Trans Rights Bill. The two Bills are flawed on their own. But they are also connected in some ways.
Dec 29, 2018
Not Sure Why People Are Protesting the Trans Bill? Here's A Quick Guide
Many amendments have been made to the Bill since it was drafted, but activists say it is still discriminatory, mainly for the following reasons.
Dec 26, 2018
If You're Unsure What POSH, LoSHA, ICC & Other Terms Are, This Is For You.
Some common terms being used in the #MeToo conversation, explained.
Oct 20, 2018
Have You Watched This Sweet Film About Anshuman Travelling on the Metro?
The film is a lovely portrait of it sparkling protagonist finding his way in the world
Sep 14, 2018
Homosexuality in India: Old or New?
Here’s what Sahapedia has to say about Indian tradition and the current arguments about homosexuality in India’s Supreme Court
Jul 25, 2018
Being Equal, Being Queer Rozana
May 17, 2018
What Is It Like To Have Sex and Love With Both Men and Women
Sex with men and with women is actually very different but it’s difficult to articulate the difference in sensation.
Mar 22, 2018
People Call Me 'Pervert' Because I Like Sex
They can laugh and shame me all they want, but it's through sexual relationships that I learned how to build trust, seek consent, and stop judging
Jan 17, 2018
LOVE, SEX AND KHICHDI
I just wanted to hold him tight and never let go. I wanted to make sure he would come back and I wanted to scream at him for untangling the ‘not’s in my chest.
Dec 12, 2017
Meri “Baingan” Wali Story
My bainganwali story took place in Delhi, declared one of the unsafest cities in general, but for women in particular.
Dec 15, 2017
What Intersex People Wished Everyone Knew About Them
Simple FAQ's to familiarize yourself with body beyond binaries.
Oct 26, 2017
LOVE, SEX AUR DIMAAG: A VIDEO ABOUT MENTAL SEXUAL HEALTH
Oct 16, 2017
WE MET ON GRINDR. NOW THE INTIMACY OF THE SEX WE HAD MAKES IT HARD FOR ME TO FORGET HIM
Some loves are sexual, where emotion, body and connection become powerfully joined in the intimacy of sex more than anything else. It is an intoxication, a nasha that’s hard to forget, because it runs deep.
Nov 08, 2017
The women I love
A love poem to women who laugh out loud
Nov 28, 2017
How Gujrati Porn Made Me Realise I Was Asexual
The way I was not feeling anything while watching porn, I did not feel any kind of attraction and sexual desire for anyone either.
Sep 14, 2017
My First Break-Up Was Nothing Like The Movies
We just sat down, wringing our hands. I said, “We have to confront reality. I don’t think we should be together anymore.”
Oct 13, 2017
I LEARNT HOW TO EXPRESS AFFECTION AND LOVE IN FRIENDSHIP THE HARD WAY
Sometimes I think that friendship and hugging are oddly co-related. Both exist in a place of love which is somewhere between sexual love and cordial acquaintance.
Aug 06, 2017
When Pets Walk In On Sex
Let’s face it, pets do become like family for most people. While we may all have worked out ways of getting away from our families in the pursuit of ishq, animal children have a sneaky way of sticking around and refusing to be shooed out of the room.
Sep 07, 2017
A Long Time Ago In Our Own Country: Meet The Stars of Indian Sex-Ed
‘Modern’ India has had many doctors, activists, researchers, and writers doing very important work like beginning programmes for birth control, saying women have the right to enjoy sexual pleasure and talking about the never-satisfied public’s sex dilemmas.
Sep 05, 2017
For 25 Years I've Stayed Faithful To A Husband Who Refused Me Sex
Do I need sex? Well not really but I’d definitely like some.
Jul 17, 2017
The AOI Guide For Lady-People To Be Sure Your Ishq Moves Aren't Creepy
Jul 13, 2017
WHAT 'NO STRINGS ATTACHED' TAUGHT ME ABOUT LOVE AND SEX
A young woman asks some 'un-cool' questions about NSA relationships
Jul 25, 2017
How To Have THAT Awkward Conversation
Jun 28, 2017
How I Taught Myself To Have Orgasms
I wasn’t fucking anorgasmic, I’d just been doing it wrong my whole life.
Jun 19, 2017
Hum Aapke Hain, Porn
May 26, 2017
Things You Should Know About Anal Sex
Yes, most people are curious about anal sex ki baatein. But not every woman, gay or straight, is comfortable with having a penis or a dildo in their anus. Not all men, gay or straight, are instantly (or ever) comfortable with having either a penis or a strap-on in their anus either
Jun 27, 2017
Watch Me As I Fall In Love: 5 Trans Persons Talk About Dating
Love is supposed to be the simplest thing, but it isn’t.
May 17, 2017
Hot Mama: Or How I Went from Comfortably Numb to Shape of You
May 13, 2017
HOW NORMAL IS YOUR SEX DRIVE? (PROBABLY VERY NORMAL)
May 16, 2017
15 LOVE POEMS TO SELF LOVE
May 10, 2017
WHAT 100 WOMEN TOLD US ABOUT MASTURBATION
The truth about female masturbation and it's varied forms and experiences: As told by a hundred women
May 05, 2017
Is Pyaar Ko Main Kya Naam Doon! Words People Use for Masturbation
May 03, 2017
15 years of Women Talking About Their Vaginas To The Public -- The Vagina Monologues in India Celebrates Happy Birthday
Apr 01, 2017
DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIND GOOD SEX EDUCATORS? HERE'S A LIST
Have you ever had the sex talk? With children as a parent, as a teacher or as an adult with your own parents? Was it relaxed or was it more like the channel that has to be changed as soon as the hero and the heroine looked into each other’s eyes? Does the question, 'Where do babies come from?' or the question ‘what does gay mean’ give you a massive coughing fit that requires running to the bathroom? You know you should be talking to your kid about sex. But you just don’t know where to start.
Apr 11, 2017
I TOOK A JOURNEY WITH SEX TOYS AND I SAW STARS
At first it felt strange. But soon I realised the pleasure was quite unlike what I had felt before – and using it was rather easy.
Mar 29, 2017
WHY I DECIDED TO PAINT SEXY PICTURES OF MALE MOVIE STARS
Mar 24, 2017
MY 1.2 FOOT VAGINA
Mar 21, 2017
Dear MTV, Please Excuse But Orgasms DO Have A Gender
Mar 10, 2017
Savita Bhabhi and I: A True Love Story
Here is something you should know about me. I wrote three stories for Savita Bhabhi.
Mar 04, 2017
Open that Door! Flirting Fundas of Old Tamil Poetry
Mar 01, 2017
Those City Love Affairs
I find love in conversations, and in what I can never quite completely understand about the other person.
Feb 24, 2017
Fantasy Mein Kya Sharmana: My Secret Crushes
Mar 16, 2017
PURURVASA’S LOVE-MAKING ALMANAC
Feb 14, 2017
UNFUCKABLE ME (OR, “YOU’RE NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS”)
Feb 13, 2017
LOST AND FOUND POEMS OF A GIRL WHO LIKED SEX
Naughty and Nice poems by Nisha Susan
Feb 09, 2017
The Bhabhi Next Door
"I like talking to a Bhabhi in the neighbourhood because of her outspoken and frank opinions on sex" says Saurabh "but I feel nervous too because she is so bold." The conversations excite him and Bhabhi extends an invitation. WiIl Saurabh take her up on it? Listen to this podcast about a young man's fantasies and anxieties about sex.
Jan 20, 2017
Ishq Year Planner - Your #SexRes2017 Storified
Jan 04, 2017
George Michael, The Sex-Ed Teacher We Never Had
And all this while dear George, hot-sexy-smooth George Michael in his snug denims kept telling us, ‘Sex is natural, sex is good, sex is fun, sex is chemical’.
Dec 28, 2016
Artist Tarini Sethi: "Everyone is the same, we all have imperfections"
Everyone is awkward about themselves in some way or another. It’s okay to hate parts of your body, but these parts are what define you and one has to learn to love them instead of hide them.
Dec 18, 2016
Images and Imaginations of Sex
Before we can create something, we have to imagine it.
Dec 12, 2016
#SexPeCharcha Twitter Chat
Dec 09, 2016
Her Lovely Naked Body
“It’s the curves of her body, the stillness in her eyes and the long, cascading hair that I find very beautiful.”
Dec 11, 2016
TELEPHONE PYAAR
When Rohit's crush writers her cell number on a form he quickly memorises it. Then it's love in full gear. They act like strangers in the coaching class and spend hours on the phone. And then, one day, there's a cross-connection and the line goes dead. Did love have to turn into hate? Listen to this podcast and see what you think.
Nov 04, 2016
EK LADKI BHOLI BHALI SI
Oct 21, 2016
Snakelets And Spilt Milk: The Highs and Lows of Dating in Old Tamil Poetry
To write about Ishq in classical Tamil poetry, is to be spoilt for choice.
Oct 26, 2016
Don't Miss These Nine Stories About Young Girls' Periods!
What if we could move on to talking about periods as just another part of our lives?
Oct 03, 2016
HETERO HOMO BI BI: SHIT BISEXUALS HAVE TO HEAR
Shit bisexuals have to hear.
Sep 23, 2016
I CALL HER MOSAMBI
Sep 23, 2016
BAS EK KISS...
Sep 16, 2016
ISHQ VISHQ SEX VEX
EXPLORING TOUCH TO EXPLOSIVE TOUCH Let Manu take you on his journey of touch from naive bodily explorations with his male friends to the electric, experiences with the opposite sex, and along the way understandings about consent, mutuality and the simple pleasures of pleasure!
Sep 02, 2016
I DIDN’T BELIEVE IN LOVE – THEN I FOUND POLYAMORY
Well. Polyamory done right, as it turns out, is a lot of work!
Aug 31, 2016
JEEP MEIN BEEP, DIL MEIN DHAK DHAK
“He winked at me in the rear-view mirror and I was overcome with shyness.” Once Chandni meets this jeep driver and their love story gathers speed, it’s heart-in-the-mouth romantic twists and turns and the speedbreaker of respectability cannot slow it down. A story of passionate romance from Banda, UP.
Aug 05, 2016
In A Gay Bar You Can See Forever
An Indian man at 31, in a gay bar for the first time, experiencing male erotic tenderness for the first time.
Aug 01, 2016
WHAT INDIAN MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR PENIS: RESULTS OF THE GREAT INDIAN PENIS SURVEY
Jun 28, 2022
Opening Up About Your Sexual Self
GIFS that express the pain of hiding your sexual self
Aug 01, 2016
KINKY IS QUEER
A poem on finding freedom in the Kinky and the Queer!
Jun 28, 2022
THIS IS WHO I AM: A YOUNG MAN’S JOURNEY OF FINDING HIMSELF THROUGH KINK
A young man who discovers his submissive nature and learns to be himself through BDSM and kink.
May 01, 2016
The Inheritance of Sex-Ed
Sex-Ed, through the generations - an inheritance from a father to a daughter.
May 23, 2016
How Posing in the Nude Changed My Life
A young gay man who hates being touched, is awkward about having sex. Then, an ex-flame asks him if he'll pose for some photographs - in the nude. Listen to Arindam's podcast on how the experience made him bloom into a sexual being. And how an act that mixed intimacy and creativity, began a new journey of confidence and exuberance.
Apr 29, 2016
The First Indian Penis Survey
Are you In a Complicated Relationship with your Penis? Fill out our completely anonymous Penis Survey to help us understand what people are feeling towards their penis!
Apr 27, 2016
I Kissed A Boy (Plus Several More) And I Liked It: My Slutty Life
The thrill of being with a stranger, the joy of kissing several more - and liking it! Read as Glitch embraces her 'slutty' course of life, making it HER choice.
Mar 01, 2016
Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho, Aur...
A story about love, sex , opportunity and learning together. An audio story
Jan 05, 2016
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