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Girls should always carry condoms. Know why? Sometimes, you just don't plan for sex but it can happen, and as the saying goes, 'Prevention is better than cure.'
Girls should always carry condoms. Know why? Sometimes, you just don’t plan for sex but it can happen, and as the saying goes, ‘Prevention is better than cure.’
For a country of one billion people and still procreating, we are rather odd about how we shun all talk of sex and contraception. Never mind the heaving bosoms and pelvic thrusts of our movies, it is rare to see a scientifically accurate conversation about sex taking place at school or work. So this ad is an albeit cheeky but welcome take on the need to carry protection because accidents happen. People have sex, sometimes planned and sometimes spontaneous. Having an active sex life is part and parcel of people’s life but there is still a lot of myths shrouding contraception as well as shame around it, especially for women. So watch this video and remember, safe sex is the way to go!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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