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Cover Image 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
Cover Image ‘Not just a tampon, even a swab of my vagina would leave me in tears’ One day I woke up with vulvar pain, and realised that it wasn’t just me, even the docs weren’t ready to handle it Oct 28, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Unhooked and Unapologetic How I found strength and liberation beyond bra expectations Aug 19, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image I was prepared to sulk, until I saw a tiny girl with a hockey stick A serendipitous meeting with a movie character changed everything I had so far been told girls could be Mar 18, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image I wanted love and found it. It just wasn’t reciprocated After each encounter, I promised myself I’d talk about my needs, be vulnerable in a smart way. Next time, I’d win Jan 29, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image Me, My M.I.L and My Abortion Based on Ibis Reproductive Health's qualitative research with 43 medication abortion users in rural and urban India Jan 15, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image Ayye! The rebellion I staged to save my “dirty” Sidney Sheldons Amma shamed me in front of my crush, and so I had to have my revenge too, publicly! Jan 08, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image I Thought It Was A Dream Date. But I Am Bipolar, So Was It Just A Dream? This date wasn’t supposed to be a rebound, but still hit me in the face, and everywhere else Dec 18, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Dreams, Fears and Friendship: A Story about Abortion-and Love A comic created by Agents of Ishq in collaboration with Ibis Reproductive Health, building on their research on self-managed abortions. Aug 12, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image I Want To Feel Cared For Even When I’m Having Casual Sex The ‘no strings attached,’ nature of casual sex meant that I was left feeling dissatisfied and dehumanized. But being open about my need to be nurtured opened up a whole new world. Apr 12, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image ‘Every month I’d be lying in the principal’s room, waiting to die’ Pavitra was told that experiencing period pain was to be expected, even when the pain she was experiencing was debilitating. Why did it take so long for someone to take her pain seriously, she wonders. Nov 20, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image ‘Could I share food with others? Could I have a relationship?’ A diagnosis of herpes can be terrifying. But, here’s what I learnt after being told I have herpes Nov 13, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image He Had Sex With Me. Then Told Me I Wasn't Man Enough A train journey and a sexual encounter with a closeted man makes Vibhu Vasudev ask why men hold rigid ideas about masculinity. Nov 06, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Iss compliment ko main kya naam doon? Yes, I am Ms Something Else. I wish the men I met were too! Oct 25, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Some Sundays Over copious cups, I waited for a romance to brew, and found myself left with nothing but green tea! Oct 20, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Tinder And The Saga Of “Blind” Dates I dipped my toes in the world of online dating with care and caution. But I got swept away anyway. Oct 16, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image I Was Happy To Give Them My (W)hole Heart, But They Wanted Kids And A Desi Bahu I’ve had a heart defect since childhood. So, how do I find love in a world that’s obsessed with the body? Oct 09, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Juvenile Arthritis Meant That I Couldn’t Touch My Penis. Then, I Discovered Mindgasms Naveen shares how he discovered the power of fantasy after being bedridden at the age of 13 Oct 02, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image Gut Feelings - IBS, Body Image and the Bowels Of Desire How do you feel desirable and attractive in a body that does not listen to you. Aug 07, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Tere Jaisa Yaar Kahan! 10 Tales on AOI about Friendship that Get Us in Our Feels! #HappyFriendshipsDay with some of Agents of Ishq's best writings on friendship-wala love. Aug 07, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image My Post-Baby Boobs - A Comic Short tales about a pair of boobs living the postpartum life #WorldBreastfeedingWeek Aug 02, 2023
Cover Image It Took Me Two Years To Realize I Had Been Raped A male Dalit queer person on acknowledging the many shades of sexual assault. Jun 19, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Talking To My Daughter About Sex, And The Body, Changed Me As a Parent and a Person I wanted to be the kind of parent who could respond honestly to my daughter's questions about sex. May 14, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Love was a stereotype. Friendship was radical. And then, I met her. If witnessing a relationship slowly die out like a star collapsing into itself were a color, it would be tangerine. Aug 05, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image With Polyamory, I Grew Into The Person (And Lover) I Was Meant To Be For years, I questioned if I could expand the definition of a loving relationship. And then, I did. Apr 17, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image My Period Turns Me On, In Ways You Can't Image (As Told To A Lover) It smells like a deeply ferrous tang, seductive like flowers or the night air, but richer, funkier. Apr 10, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Somewhere Between Mills & Boon, Assault and A Dutiful Husband - I Discovered That Sex Is Power It was only during my honeymoon that I realised that sex could be painful. Mar 04, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image People Said I Should Drop Some Kilos, Instead I Shed My Shame I want to marvel at fat women with fat minds and I want to marvel at myself. Apr 03, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image A French Fling And My Epic Romance With Masturbation How old were you when you had your first “libido lightbulb” aka when you first got curious about sex and your body? Jan 13, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image My P.O.P (Pending Orgasm Project) : A Bloody Tale Dec 14, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Ammuma’s Haircut and Her Romantic Past If Ammuma's hair was one to divulge, what would it reveal about her life? Dec 04, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image The Women Who Bathed Together Arya for the first time has seen her aunt's breasts and wished to never have boobs. Read Arya's essay about bodies and bathing! Nov 28, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Asexuality And Shah Rukh Khan: Ek Prem Kahaani But the older Abhramika grew, the more she realised that her idea of romance was probably not the same as that of others around her. Oct 20, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Stars In My Eyes ft. Meena Kumari 6 people tell us why the Tragedy Queen mattered to them on her birthday! Jan 07, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Forbidden Cookies Taste Sweet - Falling In Love With My Older Married Aunt It didn't bother me that she was married because I just wanted to be with her for whatever time I could. Jul 06, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Healing, Not The Law, Gave Me My Justice - This is My Survivor Story M tells us a complex story about violence, justice and ideal victims! Jun 28, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image My Clients Celebrate Relationships With Me That They Can’t Even Mention Outside The Therapy Room: A Therapist’s Diary A therapist wonders if we can relook how we approach 'problematic' relationships Jul 14, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Do You Dare Confess Your One Sided Love? He loves someone else, but he doesn't mind me loving him in this one-sided fashion. Apr 01, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Breaking My Heart And Finding Myself Imran on why queer break-ups are hard, but you can't lose yourself entirely in love. Apr 01, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Love Paranoia After every rejection I ask, is it my disability? Apr 01, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image QUESTIONS. RUMINATION. CONVERSATION Or What is he doing right now? Apr 01, 2022
Cover Image Bad Habits, Good Women: My Conversations with Nuns Unmarried, celibate, religious – is every nun the same kind of woman? Nikhita finds out! Mar 01, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image My Wobbly Bits: Making Friends with My New-Old Body In my 50's, I'm rearing a kid by myself and greeting new body parts ever so frequently. Mar 01, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image See-Saw Sexual Confidence Ka! What people said brought their sexual confidence up or down! Jan 07, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Bodies in Pain: Reclaim, not Shame Angel's journey of accepting that her period pain was real, not imaginary or inconsequential. Apr 30, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Where is my Education? A Transman’s Story The everyday struggles of a trans man attending university. Nov 01, 2021
Cover Image Fan : Why I Love Shah Rukh Khan If you love him, you love him the way he loves his heroines – unabashedly, inexplicably, and forever. Nov 01, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Stories From A Survey: Mohan's Story Nov 01, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Stories From A Survey: Manju's Story Nov 01, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Seen Zoned, IRL It turned ‘seen’ instantly, like never before. Bundles of crackers went off in my heart. Nov 10, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Kabhi Alvida Kehna! How I Said Ta-Ta Bye-Bye to Gender Norms and Became Beautiful It was not easy to dress like a girl outside; only in the secrecy of my room. Sep 17, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Discovering My Sexual Self Through Therapy Now that I have been living by myself, the quietness has given me time to take off these masks. Oct 13, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Friendship: The Movie featuring Uncertain Love Shocking - Queer people confused if their flirting is romantic or platonic! Oct 17, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image My Body, My Confusion My idea of the feminine was intrinsic to the experience of heterosexuality. Sep 20, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Good Friends, Bad Boys And Friendship Betrayals Do you remember your first friendship break-up? Pranav does! Aug 01, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image My Best Friend, My Wedding and Other Breakup Stories Can BFF's getting coupled up throw your dosti into crisis? Aug 23, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image I Have Erotic Friendships And It's Not Complicated Aditya writes to reveal new definitions of friendship - and sex! Aug 09, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image My Mother’s Lost Friendships How can marriage and family expectations slowly bleach friendship out of a woman's life? Aug 15, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image You Are My Di! What keeps an intense friendship alive in a world that defines love & friendship separately? Aug 04, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Can Your Vulnerability Make You Mean? Mine Did. What memories can a unexpected apology from a childhood bully bring up? Jul 22, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image I Will Not Write About The Boy I Like The world is imploding. I should not be writing about the boy I like, who recently told me he likes me too. Jul 01, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image This Was My Adolescence! 7 People Tell Us How Their Youth Shaped their Adult Lives Jun 03, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Oh Boy! That's a Sex Toy (For Penis Owners) Toys to please your P's - Penis and Prostate! May 25, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image “Rubbing, rubbing, nothing is happening!” What can a quest to find out about the mythical ‘orgasm’ look like? May 05, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Of Desire, Sex and Size “Oh, are you wearing a sleeveless top? Have you looked at your size?” Jun 17, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Of Simps, Sluts and Societal Pressure - My Time in a 'Boys Club' Nayana talks about conditioning, internalized misogyny and self-hate through her experiences in a “boys club” in school.   Jun 04, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Love Was Not A Cure For My Masculine Anxieties “Pyaar ka sitam means love comes to us with great promise, to fill our lives, but the truth is it can only fill very little of us,” says Anand Yadav, battling with the pressure that the idea of ‘love’ brings with it. May 21, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Some of us need to be understood differently: Breaking Up and Mental Illness Rukmini writes about her relationship and break-up, and how as a person with mental-illness, she wishes it could have been done differently. Jul 29, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Uncle’s Fault : What I Understand Now About Grooming How do cultural norms rooted in respect for seniority enable grooming Mar 16, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image What Does Queerness Care About Productivity? A Poem The mind was kept busy while the body craved attention. The more it craved, the more I got busy.  Mar 22, 2021
Cover Image The Vicious Ability of Ableism: What do you do when you're explicitly told that you're unlovable, over and over again? Jul 15, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Platonic Pyaar in the Time of Corona Mar 23, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image The Story of My “Diagnosis”: What if Nothing is Wrong With Me? How is absence of shaadi or coupledom an 'abnormality' for the society and for oneself? Mar 09, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image If Love is A Rose, Mine is Rather Grotesque Once bitten, twice shy – Can one learn to trust again? Jul 04, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image WHY MEN DON'T TALK ABOUT MASTURBATORS - AND OTHER QUESTIONS YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO ASK How restricting sex to peno-vaginal intercourse hinders possibilities of self-pleasure Mar 04, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image How to Muse a Man  Why are always men finding muse in women in books and films? Feb 08, 2021
Cover Image The Curious Case of Absent Serenading Heroines in My Life Where to find those Bollywood heroines who serenade the hero? Feb 03, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image To Think Of All the Bisexual Love I’ve Missed! I’m 28 and I recently realized I’m bisexual. Feb 22, 2021
Cover Image How the Internet Changed the Way We Make Friends What does it mean to form bonds in the world of digital connections? Jan 18, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Looking For Love on a Dating App…And What It Taught Me How experiences of dishonesty sour dating in the digital world Jan 07, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image The One My Mother Warned Me About AKA Chais With Guys Can breaking rules make our own choices and chai sweeter? Dec 15, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Self-love, And Other Jarring Tasks I Am Forced To Perform During Lockdown What if lockdown loneliness found you new love? Dec 09, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image PROSTATE AND PATRIARCHY Why does prostate pleasure scare conventional masculinity? Dec 06, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Kahin pe Nishana, Kahin Pe Nigahein A party, flirtation, class, and a romantic twist. Nov 29, 2020
Cover Image I am Big and Beautiful A fat woman rises to own her sexuality, desire and desirability Nov 21, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image A Live-In In Lockdown What does lockdown mean for a couple living-in in a big city? Nov 24, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image BOSOMS - A Poem A poem about a little girl's desire to have big breasts Nov 15, 2020
Cover Image A Prostitute and A Saviour: A Diary A trans-person's journey through sex-work and back Nov 17, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Why Does Guilt Follow Pleasure - An Investigative Documentary About Me Moving from guilt to satisfaction in sex! Nov 09, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image “If He Does 'This', Girl You Need To Let Go Of Him!” How the Discussion on 'Toxic' stuff can become toxic to live with Nov 06, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image How Masturbation Helped Me Cope With Heartbreak Masturbation and other remedies for rejection. Oct 29, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image TWO OR THREE THINGS I LEARNED FROM BEING ALONE How living alone during a pandemic changes how we think of our wellness. Oct 17, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image My Body In Bed Isn’t Any Kind of Map To Pleasure What is intimacy like when it’s traumatic to live in your body/head? Oct 12, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image My Struggle To Live and Love With Vaginismus How does trauma manifest in our bodies and our intimacies Oct 04, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Sure Doesn't Need #PeriodLeaves What's so special about the flow period sex can take? Sep 18, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Being A Sub Made Me Bloom And Widened My Perspective What sharing intimacy with strangers online may reveal about your kinky self. Sep 09, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Dear Girls Who Sent Nudes, Thank You What leaking of nude pictures says about betrayal of consent and privacy. Sep 03, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Romantic Sensual Asexual - That’s Me Can one be asexual and terribly romantic too? Aug 24, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image The Adorable Boys Who Love ‘Papa Bear’ Who decided that desire is only for the young? Aug 21, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image I Ghosted Him. Then I Got A Second Chance. Caught between shame and surprise, will a ghost-er make a different choice? Aug 10, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image To All the Boys I Couldn't Love Before What fleeting connections with many interesting men tell you about having the hots for none of them. Aug 04, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image S.W.A.G (Secretly We Are Gay) 2: Till We Meet Again Revisiting an old lover with new realisations and self-admission. Jul 23, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Memories of Touch- Poem In A Pandemic In the protected rooms where people are intubated there are no last hugs and the only thing to touch may be the glass of the window through which you can look at them  Jul 27, 2020
Cover Image I Took A Nude Selfie. It Changed My Life. After years of hiding, can a nude selfie get Ini to see her body in a new light? Jul 13, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Tell Me Tarot, Will He Ever Come Back? After Manjari is ghosted, all search for closure leads to herself. Jul 02, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image June Rewind - #WhenWomenLoveWomen, All In One Place Stories, histories and resources for queer women - ek dhamakedar package! Jun 30, 2020
Cover Image You've Got Mail! Letters Between An Older and A Younger Lesbian - Plain Text Version Jun 24, 2020
Cover Image Secret Loves And Broken Hearts: A Comic A comic about queer desire, love, and loss. Jun 26, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Satrangi Ladki, Atrangi Khiladi: A Comic About Shiela The many romances and realities of this dashing woman! Jun 28, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image You’ve Got Mail! Letters Between An Older and A Younger Lesbian How much has changed for women who love women in urban India? Jun 24, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Shiela Ki Jawaani Ki Anokhi Kahaani An excerpt from Maya Sharma's Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India Jun 13, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image "So Many Women, But It's Her I Love" An excerpt from Maya Sharma's Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India Jun 07, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Lockdown Diaries: There's A Naked Woman In My Mirror! F*** It's ME! When there is nobody to call us beautiful, what might we discover while binge-watching ourselves? May 29, 2020
Cover Image I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It - 7 Queer Women Tell Us About Their First Kiss With A Girl Stories of people's first taste of pleasure and tenderness Jun 01, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image What Falling For My Friend As A Lesbian Taught Me About How We Express Friendship Does queerness complicate the experience of falling for a friend? Jun 15, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image I Have a Disability. Why Does Everyone Keep Saying That Love is Not For Me? It took me way too long to realise that I, too, was allowed to love. That I, too, was worthy of it. Mar 23, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image The (Secret) Porn That Turns Me On Must our fantasies mirror our real-life sexual preferences? Jan 27, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Does Size Matter? A True Story For a man with a small penis, porn and condoms can unite in a nightmare. Jan 16, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image As A Man Am I Condemned To Choose Violence Over Love? Maybe Not. I hit her. The realisation of what I did, and the guilt it brought is unbearable even now. Oct 15, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image The Shame Around My Friend's Abortion Scarred Us All - A Comic A comic about Akhil's memory of a school friend who needed help. Oct 05, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image How My Girlfriend's Abortion Made Me A Better Man: A Comic M's story about a life-changing incident. Oct 02, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image What Emraan Hashmi Couldn’t Teach Me About Dhichak Dhichak I thought sex meant lying next to someone under a blanket and smooching. I was so, so wrong Aug 19, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Maybe Fighting with a Friend isn't Such a Bad Thing Why do we find it so easy to let friendship fade away? Jun 20, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image More Than An Identity: How I Realised My Struggle Was With Being Sexual, Not Homosexual My identity as a queer person became a bit of a shield from the world of love, the world of sex Jun 11, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image A Mudblood Child of a Love Marriage From my parents’ inter-caste marriage, I learned that love was worth hardship  Nov 24, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Amma, I Wonder If You Had Orgasms I have always wanted to ask you this. Can you tell me about your orgasms? May 12, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image How Shru Stopped Hating Herself (With A Little Help From Her Dad) From self-harm and shame, to learning to be your own hero! Apr 18, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Main Apni Sabse Favourite Hoon: Chronicles of an Instaspam Queen What is it about being a woman on Instagram that is so joyous, so satisfying – and so annoying to men? Apr 25, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image I Faked Orgasms to be Polite You know how we’re taught that good kids don't go for second helpings of food? I carried that training into my sex life Mar 05, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Muh Bole Rishte - 6 People Describe Their Chosen Families Society might say “Only family is forever”, but here are stories of 6 people forming their closest bonds, beyond blood. Feb 20, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Menopause: A Poem "My tongue has sharpened." Mar 19, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image How My Relationships Made Me Question Pyaar, Azaadi aur Accountability Is ‘demanding accountability’ just a euphemism for trying to control someone? Feb 26, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image My Valentine To Milind A digital altar for our collective fantasy of this effortlessly beautiful man. Feb 14, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image How I Grew Out of My Turbulent Teens Life as a schoolgirl was about trying to fit in; to be seen and not seen; self-hate and self-harm. Talking about it to other people was the first step in a new direction Jan 17, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image When a Workshop about Love and Desire Turned into a Raucous Party Oct 26, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually: It Was My First Time, and I Had Gotten My Period! As part of our #SexActually series, we asked people to write to us about their real-life experiences of sex. This 23-year-old author tells us about her recent experience of putting theory into practice and why it will always be special to her. (23 then, 23 now) Oct 18, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image What I Learned from Reading Erotica at Twelve Is erotica a good intro into the world of sex? Oct 09, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image My First Time Taught Me How Not to Have Sex Jan 24, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image a historic day A short poem for September 6, 2018 Sep 13, 2018
Cover Image You Should Wear Maroon For Your Skin" and Other Advice I've Ignored as a Non-Fair Woman Why hide under drab colours? Bold lip art – bright colours, filigree designs, polka dots – are my jam Aug 24, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image I Thought Dye-ing Young Would Make Me More Desirable. Twenty-Three Years Later, I’m Ready to Stop Trying to hide white hair now seems like an avoidable agony Aug 21, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image My Exes Live in a Sexy Nexus. I Love them All We need our exes like we need our brothers and sisters and favourite cousins to remember who we were Jul 03, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 'I Hope that My Art Replaces Judgement with Acceptance' I express queerness through my art, then it exists with all the politics and the complexities that surround it, whether it’s social or it’s personal. Jun 30, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Isn't A Whatsapp Love Story A Real Love Story? Could you fall crazily in love with someone you've never met IRL? Jun 12, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually: Memories of Mid-Afternoon Sex, and Losing Friends Oct 11, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image From Saat Khoon Maaf to Khoon-Kharaba : Ways People React To Cheating! Stories from people who discovered their lovers’ infidelity, what happened next and what they think about it now. Feb 03, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image How Dancing Helped Me Fix My Broken Heart There is no gender in dance. Pick your gender for today and tomorrow if I ask you to switch you should be able to do it . Apr 29, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually: Ecstasy, Anxiety and the Fear of Being Judged Sex, as it actually is. May 08, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Different Personas In Bed Perhaps we adopt sexual personas to make ourselves feel more confident, or to make our lovers feel more confident. Some people adopt different personas as a temporary holiday from their real lives. Sep 11, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually: Of Broken Vaginas and Negotiating Consent New stories of women's unforgettable sexual encounters. Apr 19, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Girlfriend There is only so much that can be romanticised about a long-distance relationship and the magical reunion that'll fix everything. Apr 12, 2018
Cover Image Thoughts You Can't Avoid When Your Long-Distance Relationship is Doomed I suppose one of the perks of being in a long-distance relationship is that you can foster a few pimples which pixelate into the rest your skin on Skype. Apr 24, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image I Stopped a Man From Harassing a Young Boy on a Bus, Because it's Happened to Me Too Think about all the hotel rooms, offices, malls, streets, building blocks and so many other places all over the world where similar things might be happening at this very moment. Apr 03, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Why I Believe Love is Like Quantum Physics (But in a Good Way) The strange similarities between love and the theory of quantum entaglement. Feb 28, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually 2.0 : Stories of women's sexual experiences and thoughts... continued. Jan 31, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually: The Sexual Encounter Women Say They Can't Forget Women make sense of their diverse sexual experiences. Jan 26, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Curious Cat or Sleeping Dragon: What's your position on positions? Is the definition of good sex many-positions wala sex? Dec 22, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Dating an Older Woman Made Me Take Myself and Relationships More Seriously It made me do a lot of prioritizing and reorganizing. It was stabilizing. Jan 08, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image LONGING IS THE SPICE THAT MAKES A MEAL OF SEX FOR ME Longing is a spice. Its essence pulls you close, teases the appetite at the slightest taste. What is love without longing? Dec 04, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Mard, Mann Aur Jealousy: 5 Men Talk about Dealing With Unusual Jealousies Unusual jealousies men experience and how it affects the way they look at themselves as sexual beings. Nov 16, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Are We Together or Broken Up? The Agony of Ambiguity. I was afraid to straight up ask him for an answer and he didn’t have the decency to be a bit clearer. Oct 30, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image my mother does not know i am wearing her sari. how long must I hide? poetry and poetic prose by soz Sep 29, 2017
Cover Image A Thousand and One Stories of Coming Out I learnt that people are always jockeying for power and invariably looking for that one thing to pick on you about. In my case, it is my sexual orientation Sep 21, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image My Year of Flings In retrospect, it seems to me that my ‘hooking-up’ was not so much about seeking temporary partners, it was more about establishing power. To make myself needed, yet always be out of reach. Sep 12, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Dosti is Pyaar: Being Lost and Finding Friends If pyaar is dosti, it took me a while to understand that that dosti is also pyaar, but more forgiving. Aug 04, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image How I Helped My Mother Watch Porn and Other Stories Can a young woman learn to accept her mother too is a sexual being? Aug 28, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Diary of An Indian Sex Educator It was a co-ed school. But the boys were not going to learn about the body. Jul 31, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Why I'll Never Stop Masturbating I accidentally discovered orgasms at 14, and began a thrilling solo trip Sep 19, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image I Came Out To My Mom And Now I Think She's Fomosexual A mother's totally unexpected response to her daughter's coming out! Aug 22, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Dil Google Google ho gaya AKA how I internet stalked my way through a break up I’d scroll down from post to post, to find semblance of a love lost. As though trying to relive our time together by scrolling down will undo everything that happened to us. Oct 11, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image I Felt Humiliated for Contracting an STI But I Know I'm Touchable, Lovable and More-Than-Sexable Getting an STI is surrounded by shame and shaming, even at times, by doctors. Aug 03, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Making Sense of An Ending Jul 27, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image WHAT 'NO STRINGS ATTACHED' TAUGHT ME ABOUT LOVE AND SEX A young woman asks some 'un-cool' questions about NSA relationships Jul 25, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Hot Mama: Or How I Went from Comfortably Numb to Shape of You May 13, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Could I Have Been Misogynist Even Though I Was a Woman? Why? Today, I feel to an utmost certainty that I am not pretty, and even slightly indulging in dressing up makes me feel like a fraud. Apr 07, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image A Craving For French Fries Have you ever had this sudden, urgent, mad craving for french fries? Like I did, on rainy days when petrichor can drive you to delirium. Feb 19, 2017
Cover Image To All The (Straight) Men I've Loved Before Let loose, this rise of the body and soul caused me to constantly fall in love with many a lissom lad Feb 21, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image My Konark Summer Feb 17, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image Fantasy Mein Kya Sharmana: My Secret Crushes Mar 16, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image UNFUCKABLE ME (OR, “YOU’RE NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS”) Feb 13, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image "I've slowly learnt to keep the lights on." Body, Images and Sex: A Storified Conversation Body, Images and Sex: A Storified Conversation with Kripa Joshi, Rani Dhaschainey and Ratna Devi Manokaran Dec 19, 2016
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image EK LADKI BHOLI BHALI SI Oct 21, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image Every Navratri Falguni Made Me Feel That Queer Is Ekdum Cool A song of ishq for Falguni Pathak! Oct 05, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image I CALL HER MOSAMBI Sep 23, 2016
Cover Image BAS EK KISS... Sep 16, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image NOT A HAIR IN PLACE: SEX, WAXING AND THE BODY IN MY MIND Body hair and sex - that complicated relationship! Sep 06, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image A LOVE SUPREME Is it better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? Gudiya's story of love ending in tragedy is both unbearably tender and painful - but it will make you believe in the idea of a love supreme. Aug 26, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image Qayanat Ka Romancenama “A board was flashing a sign: Qayanat*, I love you. It was like a film. I could not believe this was all happening for me, to me.” Qayanat’s romance, begins like a film, proceeds like a film, complete with shayris, desperation, twists and turns, 100 free sms a day, ice-cream in the mall, and her reflection in her boyfriend’s eyes. How does this filmi Romance-nama culminate? Not at all as you would expect – listen here to this podcast full of fizz and glitter: Qayanat ka Romancenama. Aug 12, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image ISHQ KE AAM, KHAANE KE AUR, DIKHANE KE AUR Sweety, growing into a beautiful young woman in a small town, admired herself in the mirror, longed for love. But did she dare taste this forbidden fruit? A bittersweet story of longing and regret from Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Sep 09, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image You, Me (Aur STD) A pertinent but unexpected question asked on a random dating app led Luna to get tested for STDs. Just using condoms is not enough! Jun 01, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Mamma Ka Dilemma One day you discover your 7 year old has been watching porn? What do you do? Freak out? Cut your internet connection? Blame yourself? Or maybe, you do what Anu Singh Choudhary did. Listen to her podcast Mamma Ka Dilemma. Apr 22, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image Amma, It's Time We Had THE TALK Discuss sex with your parents? Tell them that you are sexually active? Nope, not happening. But Srinidhi managed to do so. Read to find out how THE TALK took place between Srinidhi and her mother! Mar 01, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image We're Not Serious and Other Non-Promises "What is sex sex I want to scream? Is what we’ve been having un-sex sex? Is one superior to the other? Is this one inferior to that one?" Alia questions the boundaries between love, lust, sex and long-term relationships. Mar 01, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image The Reluctant Voyeur Your best friend and her boy friend get it on in front you. Should you be made a voyeur without your consent? Young Andrea's podcast about an awkward night. Mar 13, 2016
Cover Image The Flower of My Secret Sex Life A young woman's candid and joyful account of her search for a relationship with her sexual self. Feb 01, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image My First Vibrator When household chores turn into the discovery of an orgasm. Listen to Meera's story of her first ever vibrator! Nov 28, 2016
Cover Image Jewels like Flowers: About Men's Bodies and Women's Desires We are always made aware of the beauty of the feminine, but what about the masculine figures? Read this essay by Elisa Brune to know a woman’s love for the opposite sex. Feb 01, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image I Have Erotic Friendships And It’s Not Complicated Aug 09, 2021 hindi badge