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There’s Nothing Gross About Period Sex

Almost everyone I know, thinks period sex is gross. Which is why, I feel a film like PadMan will help normalise periods. Women will not begin singing about their bodies overnight, but at least they won’t live in complete disgust of a routine bodily function.

Arjun S May 7, 2016

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My Adventures With Sanskari Lube

One night in the heat of passion and out of personal lubricant, I turned to the most unlikely candidate on my bathroom shelf: A bottle of Patanjali almond oil.

Rebecca Alwar May 6, 2016

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What Makes Relationships Work? My Husband and I Try to Find Answers in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story

In Marriage Story, Nicole and Charlie spend two hours discovering that abandoning your individuality doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It just leaves you more confused. My husband agreed. This was the ultimate takeaway from the film – I felt we’d struck gold with our experiment.

Maitreyee Upadhyay May 6, 2016

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What is Love? The Right Person or the Right Time?

Is love even a person or is it just a time in life? The specificity of the timing of our great loves is the most definitive metric of whether it works long-term or not.

Aryan Malhotra May 5, 2016

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Bill De Ke Dekho: The Definitive Guide to Picking the Tab on a Date

In the good ol’ days of dating, you could sass the guy simply with your amazing alcohol retention abilities. But now it’s no longer about you handling your malt like a pro. Can you handle the cheque like a pro?

Alka Shukla May 5, 2016

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There’s a Different Kind of Unfaithfulness Plaguing Modern Love. It’s Called TV Infidelity

Sneaking in episodes of shows that you and your partner are supposed to be watching together is the biggest betrayal of trust today. That’s what I call TV infidelity; it is real and it is tempting.

Dushyant Shekhawat May 4, 2016

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The Silver Linings of My Bad-Date Book

Bad dates teach us lessons about our wants. By the simple logic of mathematics, the more you know about what you don’t want, the closer you are to figuring out what you want.

Nimisha Misra May 4, 2016

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What It Feels Like to Be 30 and Never Have Been in Love

I’m 30 and I’ve never been in a serious relationship. That’s because I’ve never been in love before. Today, I can’t bring myself to go through the ordeal that is modern dating. Or maybe I’m single at heart.

Nidhi Agarwal May 3, 2016

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My Adventures in BDSM Wonderland

Until I discovered BDSM, I used to be a coy lover. For me, the real joy was that I could act out my fantasies – a storyline where I was slapping and fake-throttling someone.

Rukmini M May 2, 2016

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The Hot Have it Easy

Tinder Select is a secret, invitation-only version of the app for the attractive and the powerful – yet another reminder to regular people of their supposed place in the world.

Parthshri Arora May 1, 2016