It is difficult to fathom how this country with a billion-plus population routinely gets red in the face at the slightest hint or mention of sex.
Tag: sex
An Epistolary Poem to Patriarchs
This poem is addressed to All those patriarchal pigs and crackbrained clerics Who use the whip of male power to punish dissenting women. You keep asking women to stop …
‘The White Lotus’’s Second Season Was a Triumph of Subtle but Biting Class Analysis
The second season of 'The White Lotus', HBO’s propulsive satire, had sex on the brain more than anything else. But it never lost sight of the razor-sharp class critique …
Not Everyone Is Male or Female – The Growing Controversy Over Sex Designation
Millions of people do not fit neatly into male or female sex designations at birth, and wrong identification can set them up for a lifetime of physical and mental …
The First Lesson in the Art of Tracing a Human Body
'Bareness does to a body, what poetry does to a mind'.
Changing Intimacies
Is it time to stop discarding digital intimacy as a lesser version of the physical one and accept that real friendships can be forged in a world where texts …
The Wrong Reasons
A short guide on consent, physical intimacy, sex and everything else that you were never told about.
The History of ‘WAP’ Goes Way Back
Feminists have been employing genital poetics since the Middle Ages.
Masturbating When You Hate Your Body
You’re not feminist enough, not free enough, not sexually aware enough; you’re not enough. Not even for yourself.
Fantasies of Forced Sex Are Common But Do They Enable Rape Culture?
Some say that the fantasies are a protective mechanism for women taught to believe that they should not have sexual urges.