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How To Have THAT Awkward Conversation
Jun 11, 2025
Nudes landed on the Internet. What do I do?
A step by step guide on reporting images shared without consent, and whom to reach out to for help
Jan 23, 2025
Hickeys: Chupana Bhi Nahin Aata, Batana Bhi Nahin Aata
Tips to flaunt those pyaar waale moments
Oct 20, 2024
Does being HIV+ mean I can never have sex again?
Antiretroviral therapy and PReP can make intercourse safe for you and your partner
Sep 22, 2024
Ratirahasya: The Myth, The Manual, The Legend
A medieval sex manual that did all the Kama Sutra did – but in more poetic and simpler ways
Jul 12, 2024
Fantasy, Eroticism and Kink: An Interview with Jaya Sharma
Jaya Sharma from The Kinky Collective talks about BDSM, power play, pleasure and reality ka khel!
Nov 11, 2022
Is Good Touch/Bad Touch Really An Effective Way To Educate Kids About Consent?
Sex educator Srinidhi asks - what do we miss out about children’s consent and agency when we limit touch to ‘good’ and ‘bad’?
Nov 23, 2022
7 Things The Caribbean Taught Us About Flirting And Fun!
There is a way to verbally and non-verbally gauge another person’s interest without harassing them. It’s called flirting.
Mar 13, 2018
Why do I need to cover up when your friend comes home?
It took me a while to realise that I had been abused, and some probing to understand why I never told my parents about it
Feb 26, 2024
Why Is There A Pleasure Premium On ‘Tight’ Vaginas?
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?
Mar 15, 2023
Why Flirting Without Agenda Matters
Lessons from the Caribbean
Feb 24, 2023
Kya Hai Yeh Fetish Ka Funda?
Is a fetish different from a kink? Is it all about whips and leather and 50 shades of Grey? Read about the world of fetishes in the AOI Sex Glossary.
Feb 12, 2023
Why Are Most Contraceptives Only For Those Who Can Get Pregnant? The Gender Discrimination in Contraception
If there was a male birth control pill in the market, would you use it (or ask your partner to use it)?
Sep 26, 2023
Teachers Across India Share The AOI Material They Used And How Their Students Reacted To It!
#HappyTeachersDay
Sep 05, 2023
Hold Me Up, Tie Me Down: 4 Quick Tips on Broaching Kinks with Your Partner
Wondering what’s a safe start to a kinky chat? Here are ideas that may help!
Jul 07, 2023
Why did 13000 sugarcane cutters in Maharashtra 'choose' to have thier uterus removed? A History of Hysterectomy in India
A brief history of women's reproductive health, sterilization and choice in modern India.
May 10, 2023
How Do You Know Who To Trust? 30 Girls Tell Us Their Bharosa ka Checklist
Notes from AOI's workshop with CREA's SELF Academy
Mar 22, 2023
Sorry Thank You Tata Bye Bye - A Music Video About Age of Marriage In Collaboration With Oxfam India
Jan 31, 2023
AOI's Guide To How To Make An Ishq Move (Without Being A Creep)
Jan 11, 2023
Could I Feel Sexual Pleasure Again After Sexual Assault?
After sexual violence conflates sex with violence, is there a road back to pleasure?
Jan 03, 2023
To End Violence Against Women, We Need To Talk About Pleasure! #16DaysOfActivism
Why #PleasurePolitics is necessary to take the conversation on gender-based violence forward!
Nov 25, 2022
What Are We Really Asking For When We Say We Want To Be Touched? An Interview with Ratnaboli Ray
Psychologist and mental health activist Ratnaboli Ray discusses skin hunger, touch and mental health.
Jul 21, 2022
How We Found Comprehensive Sex-Ed Goals in the AOI Blue Film Contest!
Condoms se Consent tak, everything a Blue Film Script can reveal!
Mar 16, 2022
Fantasy, Feminism, Erotics, Politics: An Interview with Jaya Sharma
Jaya Sharma tells us about BDSM, fantasy and reality ka khel!
Feb 19, 2022
Con Se Confidence Tak: The AOI Guide to Sexual Confidence
It's much than just being Lord Fuckalot, ok?
Jan 24, 2022
What Is Sexual Confidence Anyway? 20 People Tell Us
Beyond the stereotypes of wham, bam, thank you ma'am, what does it really mean?
Jan 15, 2022
Dilbadar: A Dating Manifesto Minus The Bad Advice
Putting the pleasure back in online dating!
Dec 11, 2021
How Do Vulnerabilities Play Out in Sex?
Why do we make sexual choices that make us vulnerable? Can one #VulnerABILITY lead to another?
Jul 12, 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
IT’S NOT ONLY WORDS! THE AOI SEXTING PRIMER
The AOI Sexting Primer
Jan 04, 2021
WHAT IS PRIVACY
The AOI Guide To Privacy
Nov 02, 2020
My Journey From Trauma To Touch - A Poem
Can trauma soften when we confront it?
Oct 09, 2020
Dear Girls Who Sent Nudes, Thank You
What leaking of nude pictures says about betrayal of consent and privacy.
Sep 03, 2020
Small Doubts: Can I Ask Her To Send Nudes?
In this month's #SexEtt comic - Etiquette of exchanging sexy pictures!
Aug 30, 2020
Can I Open The Window And Let Go Of The Past?
A journey back to a room full of a traumatic memory to seek reconciliation.
Jul 07, 2020
Small Doubts: If My Partner Gives Me A Below Job, Am I Also Supposed To Give Him A Below Job In Return?
Apr 28, 2020
Stuff People Said They Miss In Porn!
What people wish porn also included.
Jan 31, 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
Skin Hunger: The AOI Guide to Mental Health and Touch
A fun explainer, in comics form, about why touch is so important for our well-being.
Oct 03, 2019
The AOI Guide on How to Say No
Sounds simple, but we all know it's tricky in real life!
Aug 22, 2019
Here's How Laws on Sexual Autonomy Have Changed for Women
Sometimes the law is ahead of how people actually live, and sometimes it’s behind
Sep 12, 2019
Watch These #GrownUpGirls Re-Define Adulthood
Seven young women talk about the sparkling futures they envision for themselves
Apr 30, 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
Know These 19th Century folks and Their Hatke Ideas on Marriage, Sex and Women?
Here's some people who stirred up the the debate on child marriage and women's rights!
Mar 09, 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
Things Young Men Say to Me During Sex-Ed Workshops
From ‘What is a clitoris?’ to sharing stories of heartbreak, a sexuality educator tells us some of the burning issues on men’s minds
Jan 15, 2019
Are You About to Have Sex for the First Time? Here’s a Handy Checklist To Get Ready For It!
Excited but nervous? Confused? Here's what you can keep in mind!
Jan 08, 2019
A Crowd Sourced List On Consent
A crowd sourced list of important material on consent.
Dec 02, 2018
We Asked: Has #MeToo Changed Anything for You? Here’s What You Told Us
Nov 29, 2018
The Masculinity Detox Diet
Easy tips to cleanse your system of toxic masculinity.
Nov 22, 2018
My Male Friends and I Talked About Sex Constantly, But Not How We Really Felt About It
I’m trying to unlearn everything I’d absorbed in predominantly male spaces. It’s making me a better person.
Nov 13, 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
My First Time Taught Me How Not to Have Sex
Jan 24, 2019
Changing the Conversation on Consent with A Nayi Emotional Bhasha
Have you seen Love in the Garden of Consent/Ishq ke Baagh mein Marzi hai Minimum yet?
Sep 02, 2018
'Aap Karthe Mere Saath Sex?'
The day my research interview with a Hyderabad auto driver went off script to include sex, desire and consent
Aug 09, 2018
What My Live-In Relationship Taught Me About Consent
She wanted to say no, but felt compelled to say yes. She would signal how she truly felt, but he would pretend not to understand. Consent proved tricky and elusive, until she developed the muscle she needed to say 'no'.
Aug 02, 2018
Why My Photo for My Lover Ruffled So Many Feathers
I had taken the photo years ago on my phone and sent it to my boyfriend, but it had stayed with me in my head.
Jun 11, 2018
Sex Actually: Memories of Mid-Afternoon Sex, and Losing Friends
Oct 11, 2018
Sex Actually: Ecstasy, Anxiety and the Fear of Being Judged
Sex, as it actually is.
May 08, 2018
Sex Actually: Of Broken Vaginas and Negotiating Consent
New stories of women's unforgettable sexual encounters.
Apr 19, 2018
Flirting: Whats Okay? Whats Not Okay?
Mar 17, 2018
Why Flirting Without Agenda Matters: Lessons from the Caribbean
There is a way to verbally and non-verbally gauge another person’s interest without harassing them. It’s called flirting
Mar 13, 2018
I Dreamed of Having a Suhaag Raat Straight Out of the Movie Kama Sutra. My Actual Experience Was Nothing Like It
It’s been a decade since I had sex with a man.
Mar 20, 2018
Sex Actually 2.0 :
Stories of women's sexual experiences and thoughts... continued.
Jan 31, 2018
Sex Actually: The Sexual Encounter Women Say They Can't Forget
Women make sense of their diverse sexual experiences.
Jan 26, 2018
Sex Actually (Let’s Talk About It)
Have you ever had a sexual encounter that you just couldn’t forget? That keeps coming back to you from time to time or all the time?
Jan 19, 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
Just How Long is This Breakup Going to Take?
If you didn’t count his crying, nagging, and emotional blackmail, he was a genuinely nice guy who cared about me and wanted the best for me.
Nov 07, 2017
I was the Abusive One In My Relationship. My Break-up Taught Me To Change.
I’ve realised that there is no purpose to just feeling perpetually guilty. What I can do now is never treat anyone else the way I treated her.
Oct 12, 2017
Making Sense of An Ending
Jul 27, 2017
THE STAGES OF CONSENT
Jul 14, 2017
The AOI Guide For Lady-People To Be Sure Your Ishq Moves Aren't Creepy
Jul 13, 2017
PETROL BACHAO, CREEP JEEP MAT CHALAO. YOUR ROAD-MAP TO POST-REJECTION RECOVERY!
Jul 14, 2017
How To Have THAT Awkward Conversation
Jun 28, 2017
PYAAR TOH HAI, PAR SEX NAHIN
Rudraksh, a young man from Lucknow, longs to delve into the pleasures of sex. But what's holding him back? Listen to his experience as he explores the meanings of sex, consent and self-love.
May 19, 2017
HOW TO MAKE AN ISHQ MOVE WITHOUT BEING A CREEP
Mar 15, 2017
Six Sexy Things Women Want. OK?
Equality, justice, pleasure and fun!
Mar 08, 2017
My Konark Summer
Feb 17, 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
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
Birds Do It. Bees Do It.
Aug 19, 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
My First Boyfriend
Rutuja's first boyfriend began to do an unexpected sexual thing with oranges. Did she like it? Listen to Rutuja's podcast about what she learned from her first relationship.
Jun 05, 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
A Lavni About Consent: The Amorous Adventures of Megha and Shakku
Follow the delightful amorous adventures of Megha and Shakku as they teach us the nuances of Yes, No, Maybe and the Point of Consent!
Jun 28, 2022
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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