Inside An Intimacy Consultant’s Kit

Aastha Khanna’s suitcase is prepared with things an intimacy scene may require. She often fashions protective devices herself

MODESTY GARMENTS AND BARRIERS These include cricketing L guards, silicone filler-based protective wear and foam barriers that are made from yoga mats and then affixed inside underwear

PILATES BALLS When half-inflated, these “work as an air pocket between the two actors” as “genitals are not supposed to touch each other” and to “prevent arousal nonconcordance”

NAIL FILES

To save co-actors from serious injury should they get scratched accidentally

OTHER ITEMS... Hygiene items, such as tampons, razors, breath mints, panty liners, alcohol prep pads, body tape