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Should I lose weight to please my boyfriend?

Female body
“A few weeks ago I ordered pasta for lunch and he said, 'do you really think you should be having that?',” says Vanessa. “It’s my body and my decision,” she says. But she doesn’t think her boyfriend has the right to drop not-so-subtle hints about losing weight.
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Happy to be in an arranged marriage

Marriage
“I was introduced to my future husband by email, met him for the first time on Skype and married him two months later,” says Divya. Even though an arranged marriage doesn’t sound like the most romantic thing to her, it’s the best decision she's made.
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The risks of telling all about your ex

Love and relationships
“Telling your new girlfriend everything about your old relationships is suicidal,” says Roshan. According to him people would end up ruining their new relationships if they were completely honest about their past.
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‘I want a Hindu lesbian wedding’

Marriage
Anita Chedi, an Indian from Surinam, wants to marry her girlfriend. Luckily she now lives in the Netherlands, where same-sex marriage is legal. But there’s an extra problem: Anita wants a Hindu wedding.
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Does body weight of your partner matter for sex?

Our Bodies
10-couple? One partner is shaped like a 1, the other like a 0. Saurabh is thin as a rail, Vandana's figure is... very full. Sure, they don’t fit the stereotype of a compatible couple. But the lovers say size doesn’t affect their sexual chemistry.
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Dating don’ts for guys: hot tips from single girls

Meeting someone
Want to know how not to woo a woman? Ask the experts: single girls. Five single women, five top tips on what not to do when you’re trying to impress them on a date – from putting on an act and trying too hard to getting too steamy too soon.
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Naked without my bra

Female body
India is a country where temples house busty topless goddesses, yet a girl can create havoc in an ordinary market place by wearing a short skirt. Or feel naked without a bra. What can wearing clothes – or leaving them off – mean to different people?
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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.
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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.
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Mum's morning-after pill hunt

Birth Control
Amit and Sandhya, both 18, fell in love on their first day of college. They made love for the first time on Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t planned. “We didn’t know how to handle it,” says Amit candidly. They had no birth control at hand.
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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.
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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.”