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Body and Pleasure: Finding their connection and disconnection in cases of sexual abuse

The crowdsourced question-and-answer website Quora features a provocative question asked by an anonymous user- “Is it still sexual abuse/molestation if I enjoyed it?”            The most viewed and upvoted (the quora equivalent of ‘like’) answer details an extremely personal experience by another anonymous user who mentions that she was non-consensually touched by her cousin brother on...

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Why should we raise Sex-positive kids?

‘I come from a comparatively progressive family. Both my parents were high school teachers and most of their parenting lessons were adopted from the classrooms. As a result I grew up having conversations around safety, sexual abuse, understanding touches and all that with them. At the age of 12, when my classmates were awkwardly calling...

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Mental health interventions for queer children as survivors of Sexual Abuse

Under sexual violence and sexual crimes, child sexual abuse (CSA) is treated as one of today’s most serious public health problems. The prevalence of CSA among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children are noted to be substantially higher than it is among heterosexual populations. The prevalence of homophobia in Indian society leads to marginalization...

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