Dr. Niveditha Manokaran on Breaking Sexual Health Taboos in the South Asian Community

25/11/2025 22 min
Dr. Niveditha Manokaran on Breaking Sexual Health Taboos in the South Asian Community

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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Niveditha Manokaran (or Nive, as I know her) about her work destigmatising sexual health through education and advocacy. Dr. Niveditha is a medical practitioner in Australia with over 15 years of experience working in sexual health. She founded Untaboos, a platform through which she educates on tabooed topics such as sexual health to bring about awareness and change. She shares with us her story, from being a young girl in India with creative talents and a passion for fashion, her inevitable foray into medicine, and her pivot from dermatology to sexual health medicine. With experience working as a doctor in both in India and Australia, she shares her observations on how sexual health is managed, treated and spoken about — and why it is critical that the taboo around it is broken. To follow Dr. Niveditha's work on social media, her Instagram handles are @untaboos and @aadhirai_pennMusic by @lavanmusic