Being Child Free, Sexual Pleasure and Sex Education in India With Leeza Mangaldas

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Leeza Mangaldas, who is one of India’s foremost digital content creators focused on discourse around sex, sexuality, sexual health, pleasure, and the body. Leeza discusses her own non-existent experience of sex education growing up in India but how having a family who were open about sex and bodies helped her feel safe to talk about it, as well as the stigma that still surrounds women’s sexuality and bodily autonomy in India and how she is using her platform to talk about sexual pleasure. She and Hannah talk about 100 Stories of Pleasure, a platform Leeza created to celebrate the stories of women and queer people’s pleasure, and the importance of sharing examples of joy instead of only narratives about shame and fear. Finally, Leeza speaks about her choice to be child free, navigating the pressure of Indian culture to become a wife and mother, and why she wants to hear more nuanced presentations of motherhood, rather than just always putting it on a pedestal.

✨MORE ABOUT LEEZA MANGALDAS✨
Leeza Mangaldas is one of India’s foremost digital content creators focused on discourse around sex, sexuality, sexual health, pleasure, and the body. Given how shrouded in stigma sex remains, Leeza started creating Sex Education content on YouTube and Instagram in 2017, with the intention to normalize these conversations. She now also has a popular Hindi podcast exclusively on Spotify called The Sex Podcast with Leeza Mangaldas that provides scientifically accurate, judgement free answers to commonly asked sex questions in a bite sized audio format. From consent to contraception, from masturbation to orgasms, she constantly seeks to push boundaries approaching important topics that are widely considered taboo for public discussion. Leeza is a recipient of The Pleasure Project’s Pleasure Fellowship this year. She was named one of GQ’s 25 Most Influential Young Indians in 2021. She was also the recipient of the Google x SheThePeople Digital Women Award for Content.
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leezamangaldas/
- Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6MejeocMH4blTJ9EHClYTB
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BANQfJbw0lPAGHtAeX5nw
- 100 Stories of Pleasure: https://www.instagram.com/100storiesofpleasure/

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Doing It, the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has
0:11.1	never been so nerdy with me, your host, Hannah Witten.
0:14.7	In this week's episode, my guest is the wonderful Lisa Mangledas.
0:18.5	Lisa is one of India's foremost digital content creators focused on
0:22.6	discourse around sex, sexuality, sexual health, pleasure and the body. To combat the strong
0:29.1	stigma that still surrounds sex in India, Lisa started creating sex education content on YouTube
0:34.5	and Instagram in 2017, with the intention to normalize these conversations.
0:40.9	She also has a popular Hindi podcast called The Sex Podcast with Lisa Mangledas. Her work covers
0:46.2	everything from consent to contraception, from masturbation to orgasms, and she constantly
0:51.7	seeks to push boundaries on topics that are widely considered taboo in India.
0:56.9	Lisa was named one of GQ's 25 most influential young Indians in 2021 and was the recipient
1:03.4	of the Google She the People Digital Women Award for content and is a current recipient
1:09.2	of the Pleasure Project's Pleasure Fellowship.
1:12.4	I've been following Lisa's work for a while and I really wanted to have her on the podcast
1:16.6	as a fellow sex educator and content creator to talk about all the important work she is doing
1:22.5	in India. We spoke about Lisa's own non-existent experience of sex education growing up in India,
1:28.8	but how having a family who were open about sex and bodies helped her feel safe to talk about it.
1:34.8	Lisa went into the stigma that still surrounds women's sexuality and bodily autonomy in India,
1:40.1	and how she is using her platform to talk about sexual pleasure.
1:48.0	Lisa told me about 100 stories of pleasure,
1:53.2	a platform she created to celebrate the stories of women and queer people's pleasure,
1:57.3	and talked about the importance of sharing examples of joy rather than just reiterating shame and fear narratives,
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