Once upon a time, even the word “sex toy” could make people squirm. It took years of conversation, awareness, and some brave candour for us to reach a point where we could talk about it for what it is (a pleasure object) instead of weighing it down with maan, maryada, and pratishtha. Sure, the conversation is still largely confined to metros, but smaller cities are catching up fast.
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Now, here’s another truth bomb: sex dolls.
You’ve probably heard of them, maybe dismissed them as something that exists only in Japan or on the internet, too far-fetched to ever become our (India’s) reality. But is it, really?
When Her released in 2013, the one where Joaquin Phoenix falls for a female-voiced AI, it felt like science fiction.
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