In a country like India, sex is always treated as a taboo & is often considered immoral to converse about it with anyone, especially when it comes to elders.
Sexual intercourse is a topic that is often demurred because it is considered to be humiliating and it is supposed to be reticent at times. Talking or even expressing about one’s own sexual thoughts or sexuality is labelled as an act of vulgarity and ignominiousness.
The stigma related to sex often leads to suppress women of the society from conveying their problems related to sex, menstruation, intimate hygiene and there comes the problem. They have to struggle a lot to know about the right things that they should be following to maintain their life in a better way. Lack of information on this area often leads to a big threat to the people that is Sexually Transmitted Diseases(STDs).
However, when parents don’t openly talk to their young ones on these topics then they try & seek to collect information from other means which in result creates an harmful impact on the child’s mind. Their curiosity can be tremendously detrimental as social media and online contents can drag them off the track as the misleading facts disturbs their mind & soul in a wrong way. (You can check our other article for How can parents deliver ‘the talk’ about SEX-ED to their child: https://democraticnaari.com/2021/08/15/how-can-parents-deliver-the-talk-about-sex-ed-to-their-child/ )
There are several reasons why sex education in so important in a country like India. Till now, it is being ignored and looked down upon because the psyche of the people and the will to transform the society in a better way is not to be seen anywhere. Especially, it gets even more difficult to understand some of the empty headed people present in our society and also our elders because it becomes an act of disrespectful for them. The preconceived notions in the mind of the people in India is causing the main hindrance in making sex education a success.
Sex education is essential to create healthy self-knowledge and reconciliation, healthy conversation and understanding, healthy mind-sets and lifestyles.
Fatima Mohammed, Higher Heels, Bigger Dreams
Leeza Mangaldas – Who is she?
She is one of the India’s foremost Sex-positive content creator, social media influencer, a writer & also a tv – presenter. “Why be just one thing when you can be everything you want to be?” – she said in a statement.
Firstly, she started working as a tv presenter where she was anchoring shows for a news channel and after that she received many offers for emceeing many other shows. In the year 2015, she hosted a sports show for times now and that eventually lead her to host ISL by star sports which gave her the opportunity to meet many cricketers and take their interviews.
After 2 years, she started her youtube channel and an instgram page that is used as medium to connect with the audience in a better way to start a conversation about all related topics with sex. The stigma related to it has always made us step back from even thinking about it, having a conversation is a big thing. She tried to break these stereotypes revolving around all by herself.
To know more about Leeza mangaldas, Click on the link : https://youtu.be/0Gt_sbSEfLM
What is the main motive behind her contents?
In the year 2017, her intention of establishing platforms on youtube and instagram is to make people aware about sexuality, sexual intercourse, gender, menstruation, female hygiene, sexual health and many more related to a women’s body.
Her idea of normalising the conversation anything related to sex has been now breaking grounds and creating an impact on many people around the world and not just India. Her powerful content is an inspiration that can be drawn from her to bring a change in the society.
The type of content that she presents on her social media platforms is highly relatable & that’s the reason why thousands & lakhs of people connect with her on these two platforms. She has expressed her feeling about why talking & addressing the topics like sexuality, sex, love, relationship have been so important to her and the needs to bring out such topics on the table in many of her videos.
Check out her youtube channel to know more about her and the contents that she works on – https://youtube.com/user/Leezamangaldas1
She has covered many topics which we even think before talking about it with our friends or anyone around us. We feel uncomfortable at times but we can learn a lot from her by just watching how confident she is in having a conversation about these in front of so many people. The topics are about erotica, ethical porn, virginity, menstruation, female condom, masturbation, orgasm and many more.
Here’s a video on how to use menstrual cup by Leeza Mangaldas:
Her instagram bio says “Imagine a world where all sexual experiences are consensual, safe and pleasurable“. Her presence makes everyone feels right because the content that she is creating is in the right direction as to teach that there is no shame when it comes to sex related topics.
Check out her Instagram page: https://instagram.com/leezamangaldas
Why we need more people like her?
Subjects like sex,sexual wellness & intimate hygiene have been kept under the carpet for years now. These are always unaddressed topics in our school and home. We live in a society where education is important but sex education is seen as something unethical.
When people have the information about anything, they could make better and safer choices for them in life. That’s what the first and foremost motive of education is. People tends to understand the pattern of something through gaining knowledge about it.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason
Immanuel Kant
That’s why its high time that we need people like her to come forward and make the world a better place to live in by breaking certain unimportant stereotypes which actually leads to the downfall of the society.
However, when we watch somebody doing the job of making people aware about these topics in a very subtle way it somewhere deep down give us the power, the motivation and inspire us that we can also do this and develop our thinking in a broad way.
