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[PROFILE]
                        Pallavi Barnwal:





           SHE IS A MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL, AN ACCLAIMED WRITER AND A

                                              BOSTON’S SLP FELLOW



                  edWomb is a platform        lovemaking with empowerment.                         “
                  for discussing, debating,
           Rand sharing uninhibited,          Visionary leader behind
           vulnerable, and pleasurable        RedWomb                                        FROM BEING
           sexual and emotional experiences   Pallavi is a management                     SOMETHING AS A
           in man-woman relationships.        professional and has worked
           In a sexist culture, sex has been   for a decade with major internet          NORMAL ACT, SEX
           objectified as a physical act      brands in operations and customer           HAS BECOME AN
           sans sensuousness and fragility.   service. She is an acclaimed writer,
           This image of sex is inescapable   having written on different tabooed       ENIGMA, A MYSTERY
           because porn is our first and      subjects of sexuality across leading       AND THE BRUNT IS
           lone source of sex education.      digital and offline media. She is
           Porn reinforces a masculine and    an SLP fellow from Boston based            BORNE BY WOMEN
           aggressive way of lovemaking       Startup Leadership Program. She           WHO ARE TARGETED
           where the woman is shown as        is certified in Comprehensive
           passive and man is dominant.       Sexuality Education from TARSHI          BY REPRESSED MEN.
           India is the 3  highest consumer   (A reputed NGO working in Sexual
                        rd
           in porn in the world and most      and Reproductive Rights)
           men and women who grow up
           watching porn objectify women      The biggest challenges in the                           “
           bodies and do not understand the   industry today
           nuances, sensuality, refinement,                                        This is what makes us different
           and sophistication of the sexual   The biggest challenge is the taboo   from our competition
           act. For them, sex is a mode of    and repression that has made this    There is no dearth of information
           libido release and a stressbuster   subject so difficult to talk about,   on sex available on internet, both
           act.                               despite overarching evidence         from education and entertainment
                                              towards escalating issues in sexual
           A boldly rational vision           relationships (porn consumption,     lifestyle perspective. But a personal
                                              women objectification, heartbreaks,   context is missing. It is mostly
           RedWomb seeks to bring more        sexless marriages, one night flings   impersonal, written in the form of
           clarity and awareness on the       etc.) The same silence is making     a news article, a data statistic, or an
           creative force behind sex,         us obsessed and curious about sex.   anonymous story. All of it makes
           unshackling it from prejudiced     From being something as a normal     it difficult to connect and embrace
           view of being dirty and tabooed.   act, sex has become an enigma,       sex at a personal level. The wall
           It is highly important to have a   a mystery and the brunt is borne     still exists between parents and
           personal debate and discussion     by women who are targeted by         their children; between spouses;
           on a silenced yet vital topic of   repressed men.The official data      between a sexual predator and
           sex for it will bring more clarity   shows that nearly 40 crimes against   their victim. RedWomb normalizes
           around the subject and allow men   women take place every hour.         sexual conversations putting light
           and women to relish the joys of                                         on such a hushed topic that has


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