“I hope every woman in India reads this book”

-Rega Jha, former editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed India

Cyber Sexy: rethinking pornography, Richa’s first book, has been reviewed to critical acclaim and covered by nearly every major Indian media house. It was listed as a best book of 2018 on Scroll, The Telegraph, The Deccan Herald and Feminism in India. Cyber Sexy was also long-listed for the Atta-Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize.

Excerpts are available at BuzzFeed, Scroll, Times of India, Firstpost and VagaBomb.

Praise for Cyber Sexy:

“Richa has created an essential text on the particular crossroads at which her country stands in this cultural conversation and has done her readers the tremendous service of making them fully engaged with that moment and thus empowered to join that conversation themselves” - Alana Massey, author, All the Lives I Want

“In an original voice truly her own, Richa Kaul Padte echoes the storytelling fluidity of Gloria Steinem and Judy Blume. With obscenity laws and morality keepers at one end of the porn wars, and some feminisms at the other, this is the provocative book you didn't know you needed” - Karuna Nundy, advocate, Supreme Court of India

“I considered myself open-minded and progressive, and still found myself further liberated by the time I was done reading Cyber Sexy. This book blows the lid off the mass-scale lie that Indian women are shy, demure and sexually inhibited. It will give each of its readers permission to lead a freer life. I hope every woman in India reads this book” - Rega Jha, former editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed India

“Provocative and sharp. This book is going to make a great conversation starter. Or ender” - Rohan Joshi, comedian and writer

 Cyber Sexy is available for purchase:

In India at all independent booksellers (like here at Trilogy) and on Amazon.in

In the U.K. from Waterstones

In the U.S. from Barnes & Noble

On Kindle, everywhere.

And as an audiobook read by sex educator Leeza Mangaldas on Audible, GooglePlay and Kobo among other platforms.

What is Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography about? Here’s what Penguin India has to say:

In 1964, American judge Potter Stewart famously said, ‘I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it.’ Over fifty years later, the reverberations of these words are still being felt across the world. Be it proposed porn bans, religious morality or women’s rights, the assumption is that porn has a single, knowable definition. But one man’s art is another woman’s erotica is another person’s sex tape.

In this intrepid, empathetic and nuanced account of the sexual shopping cart that is the internet today, Richa Kaul Padte takes readers on an intimate tour of online sex cultures. From camgirls to fanfiction writers, homemade videos to consent violations, Cyber Sexy investigates what it means to seek out pleasure online.

And as for whether something counts as porn? You’ll know it when you see it.