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The Post-Break-Up Confession: Honesty is the Worst Policy

A break up is followed by a round of post-break-up confessions. What could be wrong with straightforward honesty from the person who deeply cared about us? But in this seemingly friendly break-up match, no one wins – and most importantly, you lose the hardest.

Poulomi Das March 6, 2016

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Why You Should Swipe Right on Promiscuity Before Marriage

“Sowing your wild oats” is an age-old, regressive idea ascribed to young men before the “settle down” phase. I’ve never set store by it, but watching my young friends seek sex outside marriage, I wonder if there is something to the theory. If we don’t play the field enough before shaadi, will we experience FOMO?

Jackie Thakkar March 5, 2016

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Pyaar, Ishq, Mohabbat, and V-Day for the Middle-Aged Woman

Nobody deserves to celebrate Valentine’s Day more than the middle-class, middle-aged, muddle-headed woman. She got her everlasting love and parental approval, but sadly, all her ideas of romance are rooted in Bollywood from the ’90s.

Ashwina Garg March 5, 2016

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Sexting for the Obsessive Grammar Geek

Every pleb who has read an Immanuel Kant quote can call himself a sapiosexual. But I represent a more complex sub-branch of sapiosexuality. I have a sesquipedalian fetish, which means my dating life is very complicated.

Jackie Thakkar March 4, 2016

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Dating in Your 30s With the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

The beginning of every new romance is laden with the prospect of a different kind of “ghosting” – where the thoughts, memories, and spirits of our past partners haunt our present affairs.

Vikram Poddar March 4, 2016

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Confessions of an Asexual Man

I read somewhere that men thought about sex every seven seconds. How was I so different?

Author||ila ananya March 3, 2016

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How Sexting Returned to Me The Safety and Control that the Actual Thing Couldn’t

When real life experiences fuelled my trust issues with partners, sexting became my cheat code to remain present, despite all my issues with power play of the actual act.

Shweta Sangtani March 2, 2016

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Dear 30-Something Woman, Dare to Dildo

I know what you’re thinking. I don’t do dildos! I’m not that woman. May I assure you that you are?

Tia Basu March 2, 2016

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The Rise of the Planet of Nice Guys

When a “nice guy” turns sour, what he is actually upset about is the loss of a hypothetical future he assumed he had with you.

Nimisha Misra March 1, 2016

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Love Hurts: Is Millennial Commitment Phobia a Lifestyle Choice or Defense Mechanism?

Millennials' fear of commitment is like the exhaustion that sets in by the time you give your third KT exam in a subject that you’re just beginning to think isn’t one in which you will ever excel. We're tired of trying, failing, trying again, and failing again.

Jackie Thakkar March 1, 2016