Sex-tech: India’s quiet revolution riding on sex positivity
5 days, 3 hours ago

Sex-tech: India’s quiet revolution riding on sex positivity

Live Mint  

In the recent web series Raat Jawaan Hai, there’s a scene where the wife places a sex toy on the table and discusses it with her husband sitting across. However, a quiet revolution is underway, challenging deep-rooted cultural norms and ushering in an era of greater sexual awareness and acceptance, led by women entreprenuers who are taking charge of sex-tech in India, such as Leeza Mangaldas, an award-winning sexuality educator with over 3 million subscribers online, who publishes educational resources about celebrating pleasurable experiences without shame. The rise of sex positivity and access to sex toys is empowering women to take control of their sexual experiences and explore their pleasure on their own terms. The growing trend of adoption of adult lifestyle products and open conversations about sex in India signifies a profound shift in societal attitudes towards sexuality and pleasure. Sex toys and sexual wellness products can add a lot of creative and liberating possibilities around understanding your own body as well as ensuring partnered experiences are more mutually pleasurable.

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Breaking taboo: Carefree young consumers show soaring interest in sexual wellness products
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Breaking taboo: Carefree young consumers show soaring interest in sexual wellness products

Live Mint  

With products ranging from body massagers to performance supplements, sexual wellness startups such as Bold Care and MyMuse are attracting rising interest from carefree young consumers as the topic of sexual wellness has come a long way from being a taboo subject in India. The marketing campaign allowed us to create a burst of awareness to tell people that our …

Indulge in Pleasure: The Rise of the Sexual Wellness Industry in India
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Indulge in Pleasure: The Rise of the Sexual Wellness Industry in India

News 18  

The rise of the sexual wellness industry in India signifies a cultural shift towards prioritizing personal joy and well-being. Despite societal taboos surrounding sexuality, the industry is experiencing rapid growth, with a focus on products and services that enhance intimacy and pleasure. The market is expected to reach $2 billion USD by 2030, demonstrating its potential to foster more inclusive …

Column | From struggling with body image issues to making sex toys for women, Delhi entrepreneur Sachee Malhotra has come a long way
1 year, 2 months ago

Column | From struggling with body image issues to making sex toys for women, Delhi entrepreneur Sachee Malhotra has come a long way

The Hindu  

How does a South Delhi girl, who’s spent nearly three decades of her 32 years living within a 15-km radius, and whose homemaker mother and businessman father had all the usual expectations from her, get into the women-focused sex toys business? In a country where misinformation and ignorance thrive in the bedroom, usually at the cost of female pleasure, the …

How, and why, the market for men’s sex toys is growing
2 years, 2 months ago

How, and why, the market for men’s sex toys is growing

Live Mint  

Pre-pandemic, most men between the ages of 20-35 were unsure why they would require a sex toy. “We continue to be that platform where people can share stories, read perspectives and get access to sexuality ed.” The Omega Gold from The Sangya Project The mushrooming of Indian intimacy brands isn’t new — the conversation so far however, hung around women …

The conversation on women’s sexuality and desire is widening
2 years, 10 months ago

The conversation on women’s sexuality and desire is widening

Live Mint  

A few years ago, a scene from the movie Veere Di Wedding had created a furore on social media. Moreover, the ever-growing brigade of pleasure-focused sex educators on social media has made access to such content much easier, thereby helping women become the rightful ‘queens’ of their sex lives. Also, if and when such conversations occur, they tend to be …

Why is porn such a big deal in India?
3 years, 4 months ago

Why is porn such a big deal in India?

Deccan Chronicle  

In India, while viewing sexually explicit material in private spaces is not illegal, Section 67 of the Information Technology Act makes it illegal for anyone to publish or transmit “obscene material” in electronic form. Pornography is not a simulation of real life events, just as a movie like Avengers isn’t and you cannot try to jump off buildings and shoot …

Let’s talk about pleasure, not just sex
3 years, 6 months ago

Let’s talk about pleasure, not just sex

Live Mint  

It was a dull lockdown Sunday afternoon. While her content is for anyone and everyone to consume, she tends to focus more on smaller cities like Bareilly, Varanasi, Ahmedabad and Lucknow, “where people don’t know many words when it comes to sex”. Jammu’s Shakun Sethi, founder of Tickle.Life, “a discovery marketplace for sexual being” that offers everything related to sex, …

Myths, Stigma, Barriers: Report Answers Why India Ranks Low on Condoms Usage
3 years, 7 months ago

Myths, Stigma, Barriers: Report Answers Why India Ranks Low on Condoms Usage

News 18  

To harness youth and ensure their health and well-being, Condom Alliance – a shared value collective of condom market players and other stakeholders to improve the well-being of young people in India, launched India’s first ever Condomology report. A nation with 50 per cent of population under the age of 24 and 65 per cent below the age of 35 …

Let’s talk about sex toys
3 years, 7 months ago

Let’s talk about sex toys

Live Mint  

Yoshita Dave stops in the middle of a Zoom webinar to unbox something off-screen. Although multiple surveys have reported an increase in sales of sex toys and adult products around the world during the pandemic, sexual wellness experts point at a glaring lack of awareness in India. So the toys end up getting discarded in a corner of the house.” …

Pornhub sees 95 per cent spike in Indian viewership during coronavirus lockdown: Report
4 years, 9 months ago

Pornhub sees 95 per cent spike in Indian viewership during coronavirus lockdown: Report

Firstpost  

While the rest of the world has It seems that India has taken quite fondly to adult website Pornhub while being stuck at home over the coronavirus lockdown, and this despite the site being officially banned in India. March saw a continues increase in traffic from India, the report said, adding, that on 24 March, there was 23 per cent …

Coronavirus Outbreak: Indians make most of lockdown as libido conquers social distancing at homes; sales of adult toys zoom over 100%
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Indians make most of lockdown as libido conquers social distancing at homes; sales of adult toys zoom over 100%

Firstpost  

There is a phenomenal rise in the demand for products like adult sex toys, condoms in the sexual wellness industry In the time of a lockdown announced by the goverment in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, just as the demand for food supplies, masks and medicines has risen, so has it for condoms, pills and adult toys. There is a …

Technology should make us better human beings, says digisexuality expert Neil McArthur
5 years, 3 months ago

Technology should make us better human beings, says digisexuality expert Neil McArthur

India Today  

Sexbots or sex robots are increasingly making their way into our society catering to various needs and and sexual desires of people. Speaking at the India Today Conclave Mumbai two digisexuality experts -- Allysson Silva, Lawyer, Co-Founder of NextOs, AI and Tech-intimacies expert and Neil McArthur, Author, Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications - tried to answer concerns and challenges …

Bots threaten to upend all we know about sex
5 years, 7 months ago

Bots threaten to upend all we know about sex

Firstpost  

For the hordes of involuntary celibates and virgins frustrated by strict moral codes, advanced self-pleasuring devices and AI lovers could be just what the doctor ordered It’s painful to be around this woman. What are Tinder and Bumble but more of the same when you have men in Japan marrying virtual reality holograms and sex tech companies creating biomimicry microbots …

The conversation around sexual wellness in India
5 years, 8 months ago

The conversation around sexual wellness in India

The Hindu  

In the months following the release of Lust Stories on Netflix last year, Balaji TV, founder of Lovetreats, a sexual wellness platform, noticed a strange phenomenon. “We hadn’t even seen this movie, until we observed this trend and started discussing the reason behind it,” he says, referring to the scene in which Kiara Advani, playing Megha, orgasms with the help …

Of Victorian Vices, Virtues and Indian Zipper Morals
5 years, 9 months ago

Of Victorian Vices, Virtues and Indian Zipper Morals

Firstpost  

Late in the nineteenth century, a spectre was haunting Victorian-era Europe — and it wasn’t the prospect of violent revolution. Moral guardians such as the Society for the Suppression of Vice worked hard to make sure women and other commoners were protected from the ‘filth’, but this was not so easily done with the proliferation of pornographic images in the …

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