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What’s Stopping Millennials from Dating Someone with the Same Cultural Upbringing?

Three months ago, I met and spent time getting to know someone who spoke the same mother tongue as me. At first, it felt like discovering a whole new part of myself. But soon, the sameness started feeling suffocating. I felt like I knew him too well, too soon, and that his red flags could never have the luxury of just being flags.

Poulomi Das July 15, 2016

Love and Sex

A Guide to Dating in Your 40s: The Divorcee Edition

Most divorced men in their 40s haven’t got the memo that the relationship economy has changed. When they got married in their 20s or 30s, their main role was that of a provider. Which meant that they didn’t have to develop personalities or attempt to be fun.

Unsanskari Stree July 13, 2016

Love and Sex

The Bangover: The Morning-After that Needs No Cure

Your life on the working day after a raunchy tryst can feel sometimes like a Moods condom commercial. Enter: The Bangover, a feeling where everything reminds you of your partner’s naked body and your face has a perpetual post-coital glow.

Dr Mahinder July 11, 2016

Love and Sex

Lessons from My First Threesome

In a threesome, cunnilingus is acceptable – a cuddle is not.

Author||ila ananya July 8, 2016

Gender

No Baby, No Cry: What it Means to be Childfree by Choice

Society finds it hard to respect a woman’s choice in several matters of sex and marriage, but the decision to not have children is beyond the pale. How can you not be a mother? Isn’t it going against your DNA as a woman and your purpose on this planet?

Alka Shukla July 8, 2016

Love and Sex

Why We Should Not Be Sleeping with Our Friends

Friends with benefits is an amazing concept – in theory. Everyone loves sex with no strings attached, but in reality, it rarely works without leaving its scars on your emotional psyche. By the end, you’re left with way too many harrowing questions and no one left to answer them.

Nihal Bambulkar July 6, 2016

Love and Sex

Truth and Dare: What Happens When You Stop Faking It on Tinder

Being honest on Tinder and Hinge is like sitting down for the national anthem in the cinema hall: No one expects it, and when they see it for the first time, they usually lose their shit.

Farishte Irani July 6, 2016

Love and Sex

Sex Diaries from Chawl Life: Belan, Chappal, & Other Kinks

Bondage using nylon sarees, some light spanking using a chappal, and a bit of butt play using the belan might sound like kinky sex acts to some. But in the confines of chawl living, it’s life as usual.

Damian D'souza June 29, 2016

People

One Night @ a Viagra Call Centre

The little blue pill ushered in a sex revolution 20 years ago. Today, Mumbai millennials continue to reap its benefits – helping middle-aged Americans boost their sex lives, over the phone.

Damian D'souza June 28, 2016

Books

The Right to Sex: What could ethical sex look like?

In a world where we are talking about sex more than ever only to find it just as frustrating to navigate, Amia Srinivasan’s 6-part essay collection The Right to Sex serves as a manifesto on what direction this conversation can, perhaps, take.

__vinenot__||digvi June 26, 2016