These stories emerged in a facilitated setting: Participants were discussing their dangerous pleasures and pleasurable dangers, while Jaya and Archana took them through concepts like the Charmed Circle by Gayle Rubin or Jacques Lacan’s articulation of how prohibition eroticises.
These ideas are usually thought and written about in English (or, you know, French), and we translated and transliterated them in Hindi, so that we can write our own experiences in a language that is closer to us, as intimate and varied as the experiences shared here.
The stories that emerged after this process surprised even the people who wrote them. There were moments of intimacy, discovery, hope, astonishment, shame, helplessness, betrayal – stuff that is often buried within us. Be it the bliss of reaching the pinnacle of pleasure in a jungle, the pain of a hidden love bite, or the burden of ‘what could have been’.
Some writers preferred anonymity, and their names have been changed in the stories.
New story out every Wednesday and Thursday.
Producer and Editor:
Madhuri Adwani
Facilitators:
Jaya Sharma and Archana Dwivedi
Artwork:
Tavisha Singh
Music:
QKThr Song by Aphex Twin
Voiced by:
Juhi Jotwani and Madhuri Adwani
For more such narratives, check out The Third Eye’s Pleasure and Danger edition.
