17 year old Puja is scared of intimacy while 19 year old Rohan is still confused about what exactly goes on under the sheets when his favourite on-screen couple dim the lights and start kissing. 22 year old Anandi is still debating whether she should ...
Coming to Terms with Your Sexual Identity in an Unfriendly Society
June will officially come to an end soon. June — the Pride Month, a time quite important to me now but was nothing more than a random month until a few years ago. Now that I think about it, it feels extremely strange that back then, such a big chunk ...
Nightfall is Nothing to be Ashamed of!
Did you hear the terms 'erection' and 'nightfall' while growing up and it left you confused? Due to a lack of sexual health education, these terms tend to confuse adolescents. It allows several myths about nightfall to make a permanent home in our mi ...
What is Happening to My Body?
Today morning, my eleven-year-old cousin came into my room, awkward and hesitant, which surprised me because she is usually a bubbly person. Upon inquiring, I found out that she wanted to talk about some uncomfortable changes happening to her body, l ...
Busting 8 Common Myths and Misconceptions about Periods
Shame is the most common emotion that is often associated with the term "menstruation" or "periods." There are a lot of taboos regarding menstruation and menstruators that have been growing for centuries and it is high time to address these taboos an ...
Let’s get our Period info straight!
. I was recently having a conversation about menstruation with a male friend of mine. My last period was particularly painful to deal with and he could see me being irritable and unwell, which is what led to him curiously asking me about period pains ...
Sexual Health Awareness in Adolescents
The adolescent phase is a critical phase in an individual’s life. Children go through puberty during this period which causes physical changes in their bodies. They become sexually mature and it affects girls and boys differently. Adolescents are par ...
Signs you need to watch out for before your first PERIOD!
Have you found yourself checking up articles on Menstruation lately? Did your parents’ give you the period talk yet? Do you still feel confused about Periods? Do you feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety on distress because you still feel very unprep ...