Activists take part in a protest march demanding justice for the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died after four men allegedly gang-raped and assaulted her last month, in Jalandhar.
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India’s BDSM people hope that their concepts and practices would someday be understood
Photograph by Kaushik Gupta
Voyeur is not a bad word in the BDSM world; it’s even a point from where energy flows
Photograph by Kaushik Gupta
BDSM practitioners possess better mental health than ‘vanilla’ people, studies suggest
Photograph by J. Walker
BDSM enables paradigm shift: consent is not just for harm reduction, but enabling pleasure
Photograph by J. Walker
Proactive, enthusiastic consent is at the heart of BDSM—that way, it’s what violation is not
Photograph by J. Walker
Our community allows one to be led into greater intensity by surrendering more to pleasure-in-pain, freedom-in-discipline kind of erotic energy.
Photograph by Dipjyoti Banik
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Woman athlete Pinky Pramanik being taken to Barasat Court in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal after she was arrested by the police on allegations of rape and charges that...
Denial of the right to love still kills young people in India. For LGBT couples, not even the law is fully on their side, writes academician Ruth Vanita
Filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra speaks on themes of sexuality in India, the effect patriarchy has on it and why there is liberation in folks filming themselves having sex.
Filmmaker Qaushiq Mukherjee talks about the camera as ‘voyeuristic’ device, his experiences in front of it and behind, and also about the politics of the image.
Couples are shooting themselves—not with bullets, but the phonecam. And sharing their moments of intimacy. It’s just another shock to the laws that police pleasure and sexuality.
Earlier, Dutee Chand said that while her parents have not yet raised any objection to her relationship, her eldest sister has threatened to not only expel her from the family but also send her to jail
Some of the world’s best-known faces are openly gay. By choosing to liberate themselves, they also set an example both within their communities and around the world. But India still has a long way to go.
This submission was made by the Ministry of Home Affairs in an affidavit to the apex court while seeking dismissal of a plea challenging the validity of section 497 of IPC.
The government’s data says that 99% of Indian victims of sexual violence do not report the crime to the police. Even in the United States, only about a third or so of victims report.