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.
Making birth control sexy works better than using scare tactics, says family planning organisation DKT International. Today Love Matters launches a partnership with DKT. So just what makes the company tick?
My partner-to-be told me yesterday that her breasts are of different sizes – what should I do? I want to continue the relationship, and actually it doesn’t matter. But she said, ‘they are really different sizes’. Please help me. Hanif, Ghaziabad
As part of some journalistic assignments, I have been working in Bhutan for the past three weeks. It’s a neighbour to India, but there’s a huge difference in the way people view sex – it’s OK to have it and talk about it too!
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.
Q: Will my boyfriend turn violent like his father was? He tells me he saw his father beating his mother throughout his childhood. I’m scared that someday he might turn into the kind of abusive person his father was. Help me Auntyji. Radha, Pune
“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.”
Is the new ‘vagina tightening’ gel 18Again ridiculous and insulting? Or a means of female empowerment? 18Again is a"vaginal tightener" that claims to make a woman ‘feel like a virgin’ again. It’s sparked heated online discussion in India.
