Growing Up Indian: Porn Taught Me What My Parents Couldn’t

In a typical Indian household like mine, certain topics are simply never discussed. Sex is at the top of that unspoken list. From a young age, I picked up on the subtle cues – the hushed whispers, the quick changes of topic, the sheer awkwardness that descended whenever anything remotely related to bodies or intimacy came up. My parents, well-meaning as they were, probably thought ignorance was bliss, or perhaps that I’d just ‘figure it out’ eventually. The closest I ever got to formal sex education was a thin, rather clinical-looking book my mother handed me once, mumbling something about “health and growing

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