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The Amazing Flabby-Breasted Virgin

What We Were Never Told

Flows of Information, Then and Now

The Many Ways We Love, Live and Have Sex

डीपफेक और डिजिटल पितृसत्ता – महिलाओं पर बढ़ते हमले

An illustration of a character trying holding onto flowers. About growth. BY Olga Mrozek for IPPF x Fine Acts

Sift the sense from the nonsense.

By TARSHI

Editorial – Information and Sexuality

This is an invitation to talk back

By Ayesha Susan Thomas

The Amazing Flabby-Breasted Virgin

Information and Sexuality Voices

grayscale photo of woman doing silent hand sign

I was somehow on hold

By Prarthana Pai

What We Were Never Told

Information and Sexuality The I Column

3D illustration of social media and digital platform icons, including Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Spotify, Netflix, X and Figma, arranged on a dark background

Only to be discussed in whispers

By Antara Buzarbaruah

Flows of Information, Then and Now

Information and Sexuality Voices

The Many Ways We Love, Live and Have Sex

cover of Love, sex, and india by Agents of Ishq - edited by Paromita Vohra

An archive of desire like no other

By Anant

The Many Ways We Love, Live and Have Sex

Information and Sexuality Review

डीपफेक और डिजिटल पितृसत्ता – महिलाओं पर बढ़ते हमले

Illustration of two human profiles connected by digital data, binary code, and network nodes, representing artificial intelligence and the flow of information.

आज इंटरनेट और सोशल मीडिया हमारी रोज़मर्रा की ज़िंदगी का हिस्सा बन चुके हैं। हम इंस्टाग्राम, व्हाट्सऐप और यूट्यूब के…

By Imran Khan

डीपफेक और डिजिटल पितृसत्ता – महिलाओं पर बढ़ते हमले

Information and Sexuality हिन्दी

मीडिया और ज़िम्मेदार प्रतिनिधित्व की ताक़त

Abstract art, coloured in shades of olive green, black, peach, pink, yellow, orange, and purple. It appears to show two silhouettes, to the left are distinct parts of a woman's face and to the right a darker silhouette looking at these parts.

वैकल्पिक मीडिया (या यूँ कहें, ऑनलाइन मीडिया) और सोशल मीडिया सक्रियता के शक्तिशाली माध्यम बन गए हैं

By Rohini Banerjee

मीडिया और ज़िम्मेदार प्रतिनिधित्व की ताक़त

Information and Sexuality हिन्दी

In Plainspeak publishes one issue every month, with a single theme running across two months. Our aim is to expand safe, inclusive self-affirming spaces.

CURRENT ISSUE:

June-July 2026: Information and Sexuality

We value information and trust it to be based on fact. But today, with a surfeit of information, we are often hard put to sift facts from fiction, and truth from purposefully concocted lies. Misinformation (inaccurate information) and disinformation (deliberately created untruths) affect not just political elections and our responses to global events, but also how we think about sexuality in our daily lives. Our sexual behaviours, choices and actions are influenced by the information swirling around us, be it through the ‘news’ we receive, the papers/books we read, social media posts and AI or LLM-generated content we consume, or the stories we repeat or hear from our friends. From malicious deep fakes at one end to beautifully presented fact-based information at the other, information can be manufactured by anyone these days. Information is power, and in the control of information lies the control of power. For this issue of In Plainspeak, we ask: in the realm of sexuality, who puts out information? For what purpose? Who controls it? What does information do? Does it empower us? Confuse us? Paralyse us into inaction, despair? What sorts of information, and from which sources, affirm our sexuality, improve our health and nurture our wellbeing?

जून-जुलाई 2026: जानकारी और यौनिकता

हम जानकारी को महत्व देते हैं और उस पर भरोसा करते हैं कि वह तथ्यों पर आधारित है। लेकिन आज, जानकारी की भरमार के चलते, हमारे लिए अक्सर तथ्यों को कल्पना से और सच को जान-बूझकर गढ़ी गई झूठी बातों से अलग कर पाना मुश्किल हो जाता है। ग़लत जानकारी (ग़लत सूचना) और भ्रामक जानकारी (जान-बूझकर गढ़ी गई झूठी बातें) न केवल राजनीतिक चुनावों और वैश्विक घटनाओं पर हमारी प्रतिक्रियाओं को प्रभावित करती हैं, बल्कि यह भी प्रभावित करती हैं कि हम अपनी रोज़मर्रा की ज़िन्दगी में यौनिकता के बारे में कैसे सोचते हैं। हमारे यौन व्यवहार, चयन और कार्य हमारे आस-पास मौजूद जानकारी से प्रभावित होते हैं – चाहे वह हमें मिलने वाली ‘ख़बरों’ के ज़रिए हो, हमारे द्वारा पढ़े जाने वाले अख़बारों/किताबों के ज़रिए, सोशल मीडिया पोस्ट और एआई यानी आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस (AI – कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता) या लैंग्वेज लर्निंग मॉडल (LLM – भाषा को समझने और बनाने वाला बड़ा मॉडल) द्वारा तैयार की गयी सामग्री के ज़रिए, या फिर उन कहानियों के ज़रिए जिन्हें हम अपने दोस्तों को दोहराते है या उनसे सुनते हैं। आजकल कोई भी जानकारी बना सकता है। ऐसी जानकारी जो एक तरफ़ नुकसान पहुँचाने वाले नकली डीपफेक वीडियो होते हैं, और दूसरी तरफ़ सही तथ्यों पर आधारित, अच्छे से पेश की गई जानकारी। जानकारी ही ताकत है, और जानकारी पर नियंत्रण में ही ताकत पर नियंत्रण छिपा होता है। इन प्लेनस्पीक के इस अंक में हम निम्न सवाल उठाएंगे। यौनिकता के क्षेत्र में जानकारी कौन देता है? किस मकसद से? इसे नियंत्रित कौन करता है? जानकारी हमारे साथ क्या करती है – क्या यह हमें सशक्त बनाती है, उलझन में डालती है, या हमें सहनशीलता और निराशा में धकेल देती है? किस तरह की जानकारी, और किन स्रोतों से मिलने वाली जानकारी, हमारी यौनिकता को स्वीकार करती है, हमारे स्वास्थ्य को बेहतर बनाती है और हमारे समग्र ख़ुशहाली को सहारा देती है?

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