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First date: do’s and don'ts

Meeting someone
A first date is special but also nerve-racking - how do you make it the perfect night to remember? It’s so exciting yet gives you butterflies in the tummy! Where should you go, what should you wear, what should you say, what should you avoid saying... Phew!

Sex is disgusting – unless you’re turned on

Making Love
Saliva, semen, sweat… sex is basically pretty gross when you think about it, says researcher Charmaine Borg. Luckily, once we get turned on we soon forget the yuck factor. Borg investigated how sexual arousal wins out over disgust.

The night I saw my first porn film!

Porn
Shifa's exams were due so she would stay up till late at night ‘studying,’ which meant watching TV with her textbooks in front of her. She discovered they were screening everything from Blue Lagoon to Caligula.

How I discovered masturbation

Making Love
I first found out about sex when I was 13. It was a series of things that were happening all at the same time. That year, we saw a woman nude on screen for the first time and discovered a favourite pastime: masturbation.

Bisexual: 'they think I'm always having steamy threesomes!'

Sexual Orientation
“They think I’ll randomly have sex with them and get a girlfriend along for a three-way.” Shantanu, Smitha, Revant, Yasmeen and Ashley have two things in common: they’re all bi-sexual, and sick of people assuming they’re confused.

Living together unmarried still taboo in India

Love and relationships
Living with your boyfriend or girlfriend without being married? It’s still a taboo for most Indians. But a growing number of couples are daring to make the move. “It’s a constant battle,” says Amrita about her parents' insistence that she get married.

'I didn't know girls could do it'

Making Love
“I discovered masturbation by accident,” says Bangalore-based Marion. Till the age of 16 she didn’t know what she was doing. “I mean I knew what ‘masturbation’ meant when boys did it, I didn’t think girls could do it.”

A simple solution to a common penis problem

Ways to Make Love
Prostatorrhea is a disease which mainly seems to affect conservative men. Dr. Hussein Ghanem, sexologist at Cairo University, says the symptoms may be alarming, but the cure is simple: more masturbation.

Contraception: top five facts

Safe Sex
Contraception - a topic so varied that the city of Vienna dedicated an entire museum to it! Talking about condoms may be unsexy but you need to think about it. Marking our partnership with family planning provider DKT, here's our Top Five Facts #5.

Tips to have the most perfect kiss!

Making Love
Kissing can be the most romantic thing, with the right person at the right time. Amazing. Or… far less romantic. So how do you do it right? Why do we kiss? And can it be dangerous? Find out in the third edition of our Top Five Facts.

My gross first kiss: his tongue was frantic!

Making Love
“My first kiss was the most horrible one,” says Archana. “I'd been fantasizing about this for months and everything was perfect till he kissed me.”

Confused about my sexuality

Sexual Orientation
I don’t know if I’m gay or straight or bisexual. It's so confusing. I’ve ended up hating the very thought of sex, so much that I now practice abstinence. I’ve been with both men and women. I think I prefer having sex with men – I’m not sure.