By now many of you must have seen the new TV advertisements on the new-look Hindustan Times. They’re cool – and this one is my favourite. [Read more]

Here’s a short post on masturbation.

“Doctor please help me. I am addicted to masturbation. I do it at least three times a day, sometimes even more. I can’t help it; the desire to do it just takes over. Now I think it is affecting my penis – which is looking run down and isn’t as erect as it used to be. Do you think I can have a normal married life?” [Read more]

Go figure. I’ve just been labeled a sex addict. Not unusual for someone writing a sex blog you say? Well…. I’m not so sure. I took an online test and it seems that there is a considerable possibility that I might be bordering on or well on the way of becoming a sex addict! The thing is though I’m pretty sure that if my 79-year-old aunt took this test, she could be labeled one as well. Which brings me to the question – can one really be a sex addict? [Read more]

Statistics rarely make me fall off the chair. But this time I literally fell on my bottom! Turns out that the Center For Disease Control’s (CDC) latest figures on sexuality show that a once-upon-a-time taboo – called anal sex – is now commonplace. From a just a decade ago, anal sex is up 12 per cent to 38.2 per cent among men in the 20 to 39-age category. In women, its up by 11 per cent to 32.6 per cent in the same age category. [Read more]

Many years ago, after attending a conference on sexual diversity, I found myself sitting in a gay bar in Colaba (the first of its kind in India I was told) – sharing a drink with some of the speakers. One of them (who had just started a movement urging homosexuals not to get into heterosexual marriages) was telling me how he thought a large percentage of men in India were bisexual. [Read more]