Penile Hygiene: Don’t Let The Cream Get Crammed! The male and female reproductive organs, namely the penis and vagina, have different appearances. But their roles and functions are nearly alike. This article will shed light on their similarity. But most importantly it addresses the role of smegma and foreskin towards penile hygiene. As a topic, […]
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Bi-Consent Is Not Bye Consent! The assumption that bisexual individuals cheat and have sex with everyone is incorrect and abusive. Their sexual commitment and consent are as legit as any others. So let’s delve into the concept of consent amongst bisexual individuals or bi-consent. What is Bisexuality? When a person is attracted to more than
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Me-No-Pause! — Yes, You Can Before the onset of menarche and after menopause, a woman’s body is the same non-blood excreting vessel. This, however, does not make one empty. Yet the long years which fall in between the two processes change how women see this blood and their bodies. So much that bleeding to death
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ART Of Battling HIV: An Interview With Dr. Niveditha Manokaran Sakshi Arya interviewed Dr. Niveditha Manokaran and talked about Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), which is a treatment for HIV. Dr. Manokaran is a dermatologist, venereologist, sexual and reproductive health worker, and most importantly an HIV specialist based in Sydney, Australia. However, it would be less to define her
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Promoting The Freedom To Bind: Women And Narrative Entrapment In ‘Bombay Begums’ This article contains spoilers! As Bollywood uses snippets from reality to portray honest accounts of sexuality, stigma, and spatial changes, on-screen representation of femininity in India’s entertainment industry easily becomes a scale for measuring women’s acceptability in the real world. With the recent release
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To be Buried with Misogynies It’s okay, they have a right to decide! It was March 2007 when a friend made this allegedly consolatory remark. This wasn’t directed as repression of my existence, but to make me understand that my parents’ separation, which happened in June the previous year, was valid and their personal decision
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Surveying Sex-Ed in Public’s Secret Thoughts “You can read that part on your own, at home,” said most of the Biology teachers while we were in school. “You’re a kid. You’ll understand it once you get married”, said mom and dad. Intrigued by this shady and obscure world, we all did our bit of research
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So-cite-all misfits? Every pubescent girl and woman of slightly older age groups are expected to Stayfree, but they are still Whispering (pun intended!) While menstruating is a monumental achievement that tells a girl she has transformed into a woman, for the society and the girl’s parents, she has entered a dangerous stage for the rest of her
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Free to Obey; Obey to be Free Out of the millions of girls born annually in the Indian subcontinent alone, the majority do not live to see another season or even another day. Some of the lucky survivors live in orphanages and/or foster homes, that is, if they outlive the challenge where their biological parents
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