Chay Magazine - Sex and Sexuality Pakistan, South Asia and Abroad 2009:2 -

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Gynecomastia
Friday, 02 July 2010 17:18
Phallometer
Friday, 02 July 2010 17:09
Public Interest (Closed)
Thursday, 01 July 2010 00:00
Public Interest (Open)
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Smoking Hot Windows
Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:00
Smoking Hot Window Sex
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Carnival of Shivers
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 03:21
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The Conversation

InnocenceMarina Ahmad01.01.09 Innocence is such a fragile thing, such a vulnerable one. Innocence can be taken in so many ways, so many subtly evil ways that are not even noticed. I was thinking about innocence today. How silently it leaves. How faintly it slips away, leaving nothing that reminds you of it...Read More >>

The Gender SpectrumMaryam Arif01.01.09 A bisexual friend explained to me once the gender and sexuality spectrum. At the opposite ends lie male and female, homosexual and heterosexual, and there are a whole range of combinations in between. She told me that most people lie somewhere closer to the middle. Surprise! Surprised? Most societies...Read More >>

No Middle GroundHaroon Shuaib01.01.09 Compartmentalization of genders gets extremely stringent in a society like Pakistan that is increasingly laden with erroneous and narrow interpretations of religious and moral codes. Gender politics, like all the other control apparatuses of society, is becoming increasingly hermetic and overwhelming. Discourse, dissent and deviation meets with strong opposition,...Read More >>

…and the flame shines bright: Sudar Foundation and rights of...Ponni Arasu01.01.09 “Ennai naanaga vazha vidu” “Let me live as myself” The last line of the play Uraiyada Ninaivugal performed by members of Kannadi Kalai Kuzhu, the cultural troupe of Sudar Foundation. “Sudar” which literally means flame is a registered trust for more than two years...Read More >>

Poetry

Watch Where You Point That ThingRabea Murtaza01.01.09

Her body presents itself, the product of her life. A life which happens to involve a body, but does not require the obsessive presentation of body;...Read More >>

And I thought you would ask me to leave.Raheema Begum01.01.09

We would have never expected this but it is true. Men learn from us. So I bear the brunt of the things that I have...Read More >>

Of What I Do Not WriteVebhuti Duggal01.08.08

I write of desires and flesh, Flames flickering black and red, Touches as light as summer rain. I write of marks and letters,...Read More >>

your capitalism (sucks)Cassidy Lenger01.08.08

I'm trying to sell you my love that it is happier, more secure, clever I'm trying to sell you my touch that it is...Read More >>

UntitledRabea Murtaza01.08.08

parti hoon namaaz do raqaat ki waqt fajr, farz adaa wajib allahu akbar allahu akbar allahu akbar bismillah hirrahman nirrahim...Read More >>

Don't Miss

No Middle Ground Compartmentalization of genders gets extremely stringent in a society like Pakistan that is increasingly laden with erroneous and narrow interpretations of religious and moral codes. Gender politics, like all the other control apparatuses of society, is becoming increasingly hermetic and overwhelming. Discourse, dissent and deviation meets with strong opposition, more often than not verging onto violent and zealous responses. Society may be failing on many accounts but the conventional shared culture and prevalent societal structure is still held dearer than life. We are at this moment miles away from public homosexual marriages or widely accessible medical procedures for sex-transformation – in...
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