Remember sex scenes in Tamil movies? I'm talking about the close-ups of raindrops on petals, the montage of random outdoor sceneries, and everyone's favourite: the immediate cut to a colourful song and dance number. The absence of, or rather "creative" censorship, of intimacy and pleasure in Tamil movies left me terribly confused about sex.

“Mainstream” Toronto culture is indebted to immigrant Caribbean communities and cultural producers. Cultural expressions such as creole and patois (which often become subsumed under the myth of “Toronto slang”), Carnival, soca and dancehall music, and Caribbean dance cultures have found residencies in many spaces of everyday Toronto life.

It is April 2013, exam season, to be exact. My friend and I are at the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus (UTSC), trying to memorize information from classes we rarely attended, with a small portable heater by our feet. We spent most of the time we were supposed to dedicate to studying crying instead.

My most salient memory of learning about reproductive health is the 'talk' Amma delivered when I was in my early 20s. "When you place cotton near a flame, it will catch on fire," she said. The message? Abstinence.

The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University includes non-contact unwanted sexual experience and cyber-flashing, as manifestations of cyber misogyny which is defined as “the various forms of gendered hatred, harassment, and abusive behaviour targeted at women and girls via the Internet.”