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Why AOI Started The Masturbation Shayari Contest
A behind-the-scenes peek into the mischievous history of challenging me-time stigma
May 06, 2025
#ThiraktaThursday- The AOI Philosophy of Dance
Bole toh why we jiggy, twist and twirl on Thursdays (and all days)
Apr 28, 2025
My Crotch Is Itching, What Can It Be?
Jock Itch, Yeast Infection, Pubic Lice- Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai, Boss
Apr 27, 2025
The Easter Sunday Eggs Trivia: Ovum se Ova tak
Fascinating facts about the human egg
Apr 20, 2025
The Politics of Pleasure and Dr. Ambedkar
Dr B R Ambedkar was known as a lawyer, humanitarian, father of the Indian Constitution… but outside (and inside) his study, he had many interests that made the tapestry of his life colourful
Apr 14, 2025
The Rasas of Intimacy: A Memoir
Intimate Rasas and the secret juice of life
Mar 31, 2025
Ananga Ranga’s Timetable of Thirst
15th-century wisdom says your bedroom vibe depends on the time of day you like to get it on… So, What’s Your Sexy O’Clock?
Mar 25, 2025
Bura Na Maano Holi Hai! Erotic poetry is in Order!
Some traditional poetry about Holi from Pracheen Agents of Ishq.
Mar 14, 2025
Everything You Need to Know About The HPV Vaccine
It shields against warts and cancers. Penis ho ya vulva, everybody should get it!
Mar 16, 2025
“I always gave him a blowjob but he never returned the favour” – Results of the AOI Oral Sex Survey
What 100 people told us about oral sex- and what that tells us about relationships (and society)
Mar 12, 2025
Period Sex Ka Faayda: Cramps Se Chutkara!
Sex during periods? Benefits hazaar hai bheedu
Mar 08, 2025
Binodini Dasi: The OG Indian Woman Superstar
How a Calcutta theatre artiste became immortalized in time over just a twelve-year career
Mar 08, 2025
“Love me, choose me, pick me”
From mythology to the Medieval period, and to modern Bollywood: The love letter has been a constant medium of human vulnerability
Feb 28, 2025
Richa Dubey's Sexy Saturday Songs
Feb 22, 2025
Love On Air: The Late Night Radio Show Which Opened India’s Heart
RJ Love Guru listened and dispensed advice as Indians publicly discussed their love lives for the first time, and created a cultural phenomenon
Feb 19, 2025
Beautiful Marathi Compliments
Compliments spicier than vada pavs and sweeter than puran poli
Feb 18, 2025
Suniti Solomon: The AIDS Doc Who Played Matchmaker
In playing cupid to over dozens of couples who’d tested positive, Dr Solomon’s team helped people battle loneliness and find companionship
Feb 14, 2025
How To Have Casual Sex So You And Your Partner Feel Good (and want to cum again!)
Bole toh, a hook-up primer
Feb 09, 2025
Stories Of Women’s Protests For Bodily Autonomy Across The World
From the Jane Collective in 1960s US that offered abortions for as less as $1 to Brazilian women who used a stomach ulcer medicine as a nushka, innovative ways in which women asserted their right over their bodies
Jan 31, 2025
Roy and Silo’s Gay Pingu Romance
From being the poster boys of gay romance to starting a family together, the story of how two penguins (and others) waddled through life
Jan 20, 2025
Not Such A Chill Pill
Here’s everything you need to know about taking one, all in one place.
Jan 19, 2025
What is Sex-Ed Nationalism?
What can it teach us about politics, pleasure and (de)colonization?
Jan 10, 2025
Kids and adults would point to me and say ‘Look at him with the swollen face’
At birth, the doctors found that the umbilical cord had wrapped itself around my head. They rescued my life, but the deformity this caused has left me feeling without friends and love
Dec 23, 2024
Rain tree: A poem
‘A fallen rain tree. A weight I didn’t ask for’
Dec 20, 2024
Agents of Ishq turns 9!
Our nine wishes for our ninth birthday
Dec 14, 2024
The Lesbian Postbox of New Delhi
How did lesbian women meet before the internet? Read the story of how queer women sent letters to a 1990s Indian lesbian collective to find friendship, community, and sexual identity – the analog way!
Dec 13, 2024
The Hottest Steamy Scenes From 2024's Movies And Shows: The First Ever AOI Tharki Awards
From slow burn kisses to on-the-edge will they, won’t they moments? Some sexy scenes for the holiday playlist
Dec 10, 2024
How To Smell And Taste Good Down There
Partner going down on your buffet? Tips for a yummy garnish!
Dec 08, 2024
'I feel HIV much easier to live with than even diabetes or high blood pressure'
Adopted kids, gave birth, joined a corporate workspace, became an athlete… Persons living with HIV share that testing positive wasn’t the end of the world
Dec 01, 2024
From dairy to salad vegetables: Desi terms for orgasms
Did you see them cumming?
Nov 19, 2024
A History of The Internet’s Most Famous Friendship Meme
How ek doston ka gang fought, forgave and redefined internet culture forever
Nov 08, 2024
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
Sexual Surrogacy: Bole Toh, A Practicals Wala Therapy That Can Help You Become Thoda Confident During Sex
You can't just line up. Your therapist will have to recommend one
Oct 27, 2024
How to slide into that one cutie’s DMs
Slide and swing into the playground of ishq
Oct 23, 2024
Not Feeling ‘Queer Enough’ Helped Me Become My Most Radiant Queer Self
Mumbai’s queer scene was self-assured and flamboyant. I was newly bisexual and scared. But being uncertain about where I fit in helped me discover spaces where I could be confidently queer in whatever way I wanted to be.
Oct 11, 2024
Should I Use An Intimate Wash?
What it is and whether you need it in your personal kit
Oct 06, 2024
Introducing my vibrator to my partners… and other adventures in pleasure
My journey from learning how to pick one, going through airport security and learning that vibrators didn’t guarantee 100% orgasms
Oct 14, 2024
The Boy Who Stole Babur's Heart
Discovering a different side of the Mughal Emperor – bashful, poetic and queer
Oct 04, 2024
Sporting events where you can wear your birthday suit
Shoes, socks and little else... Races and competitions from across the world where you can participate nangu pangu
Sep 30, 2024
Isn’t it love, if we still want to be in each other’s lives?
I’d longed for him, and we’d meet and hook-up. It was great, until we decided to “talk about it”
Sep 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
A (Surprising) History of the Heart
The coyly pulsating emoji has many naughty secrets.
Sep 11, 2024
Genital Hygiene Ka Piddi Sa Primer
Pubic hair? Intimate hygiene products? What is the way to go?
Sep 08, 2024
What the gaalis I heard made me feel about sex
How can we see sex as a pleasurable thing, when our first encounters with it are laced with violence and prejudice?
Sep 04, 2024
Sahibaan Kadardaan Meherbaan, talk dirty to me as if you are Umrao Jaan!
Dil aur genitalia dono thaam ke baithiye
Sep 03, 2024
Can You Get An STI From Kissing?
Don’t miss this chotu guide before a kiss
Sep 01, 2024
Why Does Pleasure Matter?
Anne Philpott (Founder, The Pleasure Project) and Paromita Vohra (Founder, Agents of Ishq) discuss this in their joint editorial in the latest SRHM Journal on Sexual Pleasure
Aug 30, 2024
In India we don’t say I have got my periods…
From talking about being “out of the house” to being a traffic stopper, a list of desi euphemisms for menstruation
Aug 27, 2024
Unhooked and Unapologetic
How I found strength and liberation beyond bra expectations
Aug 19, 2024
What do you call 'Home'?
In a map of different words for home, different meanings of home
Aug 15, 2024
When Noor Jahan fed Lata with her own hands between Wagah and Attari
When the two legends couldn’t cross the border to meet each other, they reunited in no-man’s land and shared a picnic filled with love, remembrance and friendship
Aug 14, 2024
Pleasure Matters: AOI, SRHM and TPP collaborate for a webinar
Join us for a discussion on why pleasure politics is essential in SRHR work
Aug 14, 2024
Gym Se Gym Tak: A History of Naked Men (With Abs)
Tracing the image of the nude, fit masculine figure through space and time – from Apollo’s gymnasium in Ancient Greece to today’s Indian ‘hero’
Aug 13, 2024
Sex ka Pritam, Pesh Hai Precum!
Kaun hai yeh? Kahan se aata hai yeh? These and more questions about pre-cum answered
Jul 28, 2024
Medghadutam: The Cloud Messenger
Jul 17, 2024
From pomegranate explosions to choked pipes: Indian euphemisms for being hard and wet
In India, we don’t say “I am wet” we say “the pomegranate has burst”
Jul 16, 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
Spice -up your kiss game with the Kamasutra
A guide from Vatsyayana himself on the art of being playful with your pritam
Jul 10, 2024
Inside the BOMgAY story with Riyad
How Riyad Wadia, of Wadia Movietone, captured the 1990s Bombay’s gay culture from an up-close-and-personal lens, skirting laws and moral police
Jun 28, 2024
Anarkali: a poem by Pragya
Anarkali aisi ki Salim chunwa de apne aap ko
Jun 26, 2024
Desi Queer Lingo - Season 2
Coz who said queer lingo is only angrezi?
Jun 25, 2024
The History of India’s First Protest Against Section 377
How Delhi-based ABVA started talking about the discrimination against the queer community and led India’s first protest against Section 377
Jun 19, 2024
Love Has Come Into My Life. But It Has Also Left My Life As Quickly
I am a trans woman. I wonder now if I will ever find love
Jun 17, 2024
Blood Donation Safety: Why Are Trans People and MSMs Not Allowed to Donate Blood in India?
Is blood donation in India inclusive, accessible and equitable?
Jun 14, 2024
From Blues Music to Lesbians on Bikes: The Queer History of the word Daddy
On Father’s Day, a quick peak into the origins of the word and its butch history
Jun 12, 2024
Queer Kisses On Screen From 1958
India has shown queer intimacies on screen for decades. Here are a few snapshots
Jun 11, 2024
Sad Nipple Syndrome: When Nipple Play Causes a Deep Sense of Unease
Doctors don’t know what causes it, but it can affect both penis and vulva owners
Jun 09, 2024
#AOISexGlossary: What Does Milking Someone Mean?
To tire someone out in bed? Or is it nipple play? Kya ho sakta hai iska matlab?
Jun 02, 2024
Misogyny, terrorism, and incels- a history of the no-fap movement
Founded in 2011, the no-fap movement is now a full industry with influencers and rehab centres, lacking only in scientific data
May 31, 2024
The Sweetu List
From the AOI Workshop: all the words for endearment for our loves
May 29, 2024
Surprise Surprise: A Poem
How do you make a terrible day better? Thoda pleasure, thoda play, and a whole lot of sexiness…
May 28, 2024
AOI Masturbation Shayari 2024 Contest Winners
The Shayaris that made us go, ooh la la~
May 22, 2024
The Bullying I Faced In School, And How It Shaped What I Do Today
From the time I started speaking, I used feminine pronouns. And it made me the target of my classmates, teachers and even my father
May 20, 2024
A Brief History of Phone Sex
How cross-connections of the telecommunication revolution, desire, loneliness and queerness led to a booming industry across 80s & 90s
May 17, 2024
Boochies In Your Coochie
Yes, there can be lice in your pubic hair too. Here’s what you need to know about them
May 12, 2024
The AOI Masturbation Shayari Contest 2024 is Open!
Unleash your inner poet and stroke the words to win big ;)
May 04, 2024
The Story of Miss Shefali – Calcutta’s Cabaret Queen
How one artiste danced and defied her way to becoming the ‘numero uno’ of the city’s entertainment scene
Apr 29, 2024
Love Served With a Side of Mutton Sukka, Chicken Curry and Coconut Chutney
The impromptu meal Babasaheb Ambedkar cooked for friends and family
Apr 14, 2024
Sexting emojis that’ll make your chats wet and slippery
AOI picks sexy smileys to make sexting faster and funner
Apr 09, 2024
3 lusty Sanskrit poems by our naughty ancestors
“How to love in Sanskrit: Poems” edited and translated by Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh
Apr 02, 2024
The Dil Lootne Waale Tomboys – AOI’s Sexy Saturday Songs
Bollywood has long celebrated the boisterous, adventurous, gender-bending tomboys – sometimes in complete songs, and sometimes in hard-to-forget glimpses
Mar 30, 2024
One day I was wearing shirts and whistling in class. And the next, I was told I was a girl and had to act like one.
The responsibilities of being a girl and an older sibling meant I had to wear shalwar kurtas and keep my legs neatly tucked.
Mar 25, 2024
When My Mom Was A Tomboy – A Photo Archive
Agents of Ishq asked its audience whether their moms had had a tomboy phase – and discovered a surprising and delightful history.
Mar 22, 2024
The Manifesto Matrimonial That (Shoulda) Made History
Why be a bahu when you can be bahurupi?
Mar 22, 2024
3 Tomboys From The Indian Instaverse
Because we all need cute people to stalk
Mar 19, 2024
Swapnadosh is Not a Dosh!
Have you ever met this raat ke humsafar?
Mar 17, 2024
Dear Diary, today I saw Leanne’s hairy legs…
The Kuch Kuch Hota Hai feeling when we see Tomboys
Mar 12, 2024
V for Vulva, V se Vagina - But They’re Different!
Most people use the words vulva and vagina interchangeably. But these are two separate, but interconnected body parts.
Mar 10, 2024
Tomboy Dating Terms From South East Asia
Thailand se lekar Philippines tak, SE Asian countries have their own tomboy culture and so, words that connote the many desires
Mar 06, 2024
I was called a tomboy
A girl with short hair and playing sports? Must be a tomboy. Some liked it. Some didn’t. Four people who grew up being called a tomboy share their journey with the word.
Mar 04, 2024
Bind It!
A guide to chest binding from what to, to, how to use your binder
Mar 03, 2024
The Tomboy March
Kuch yaadien, kuch sawaal aur dher saara pyar... All that is in our pitaara this mahina
Mar 01, 2024
Mera Waala Sex Toy
All that we want our sex toy to be. Advertisement is ready. Product ka intezar hai!
Feb 25, 2024
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
The Winners Of The AOI Prem Patra Contest
For Valentine’s Day
Feb 14, 2024
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