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The Common Woman: “I Had SEX, A Lot of It”

Guest Author08/12/2024026 views

As yet another body is discovered drenched in blood, the society pleads with me to consider, “What if she was your sister or mother”? Her virtues are listed, her values enshrined. Her very person-hood, cruelly dismissed in life, is placed on an unimpeachable pedestal in death. She is hailed as the embodiment of pristine femininity while simultaneously detached from their own reality. A week later, she transitions into a cold statistic. It is quickly forgotten that she was a real woman who led a real life which happened to include a real trauma. And so am I.

Stand of The Supreme Court on Rights of Sex Workers: The Story so far.

Guest Author08/12/2024021 views

The Indian sex workers case is making the top headline these days. The recent order dated 19-05-2022 given in the case of Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal And Ors., popular as the sex workers case the Hon’ble Apex Court has categorically recognized that the basic protection of human decency and dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution of India extends to sex workers and their children, who, bearing the brunt of social stigma attached to their work, are removed to the fringes of the society, deprived of their right to live with dignity and opportunities to provide the same to their children.

Medical Termination Of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021: Progressive But Restrictive

Guest Author08/12/2024036 views

The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021 has become operative from the 24th of September 2021. The amendment alters the parent legislation i.e., Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act 1971) which provides a legal framework regarding abortions in India. The amendment increases the gestation limit for abortions by amending Section 3 of the act.

Kerala HC Declares Marital Rape as a Ground for Divorce

Guest Author08/12/2024022 views

Last week, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court in Mat. Appeal No. 151 of 2015 held that marital rape is a good ground to claim divorce. The Bench comprising Justice Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Kauser Edappagath dismissed a set of appeals filed by the husband challenging the decision of the Family Court, recognizing that “a husband’s licentious disposition disregarding the autonomy of the wife is marital rape” which amounts as physical and mental cruelty.

7 Lesser Known Facts About Khajuraho Temples

Avani Bansal08/12/2024028 views

By Avani Bansal We are a country full of paradoxes. While we have the second largest population in the world (soon going to be the largest), we still consider talking…

The Impact of Covid-19 on Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women

Srinivas Rayappa08/12/2024023 views

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered” – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns which followed thereafter, has essentially led to several partners…

Normalising Sex Education – One Uncomfortable Question At A Time

Shivangi Sharma08/12/2024036 views

Shivangi Sharma (for The Womb) in Conversation with Sania Rehmani, the ideation head of Sex Education India. Sania joined us to talk about the organization and how they are bringing…

A Woman Of Strength

Guest Author08/12/2024023 views

By PARWAAZ A woman has died in meA woman of disease with a lack of peace.An animal who would toil and ask nothingA dried leaf who would flutter and flinch.…