Pop ways to prep Pappu about sex

Sex educator Anju Kishinchandani of Out of The Box–which conducts workshops for kids of 5 to 18 years as well as parents–has run into enough parental mental blocks to endorse the mushrooming of such sexual health platforms. “Sometimes, not knowing can be more traumatic than knowing,” says Kishinchandani, recalling a 10-year-old boy who was disturbed…

Outsourcing the sex talk

The first time you have sex you cannot get pregnant. – If you have sex standing up you won’t make a baby. – AIDS happens only in Africa. These are just some of the myths that teens constantly bring up at Anju Kishinchandani’s sex education workshops in Mumbai. Most of these misconceptions stem from how…