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Peer Educators Teach Sex Ed In Cleveland
We’ve talked before on this blog about the need for an alternative to the abstinence-only sex education model, an approach that places importance on consent, communication and practical information....
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Brooklyn Cops Stop Condom Busts
As we reported back in March, the NYPD has been arresting people on suspicion of prostitution simply for carrying condoms. The practice is especially problematic since the same city also distributes...
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How Common is Throat Cancer from HPV?
Actor Michael Douglas made news over the weekend by revealing that his recent illness from throat cancer was the result of contracting HPV from cunnilingus. (Yesterday, he seemed to walk back that...
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Plan B is Now OTC
“The government intends to file with the Circuit Court notice that it is voluntarily withdrawing its appeal in this matter.” With that single sentence, the White House and the Department of Justice...
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Sex Work & the Global War on AIDS
Ten years ago, the United States dramatically ramped up AIDS funding, but the funding came with this dangerous string attached: in order to qualify, non-governmental organizations must adopt an...
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Will This Become the Gold Standard for Birth Control?
A few months ago, we told you about RISUG, a promising male birth control method in which a nontoxic polymer is injected into the vas deferens, sterilizing sperm. Now there’s another birth control...
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The 8 Most Outrageous Condom Designs
Some of these are real. Some are pranks. All of them are hilarious. Which ones did we miss? Tell us in the comments. Nintendo condoms Bacon condoms Louis Vuitton condoms Scotch-flavored...
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HPV Vaccine Cuts Infection Rate In Half
There’s great news in the fight against HPV. The vaccine is working! The New York Times reports: Infection with the viral strains that cause cancer dropped to 3.6 percent among girls ages 14 to 19 in...
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Supreme Court Ends Anti-Sex Work Restriction On AIDS Funding
While many of us anticipated a historic ruling on marriage equality yesterday, the Supreme Court weighed in another issue, vital to the concerns of sex workers and global health advocates. The Supreme...
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Epic Pro-Choice Filibuster in Texas
For advocates of abortion rights, all eyes are on the Texas legislature right now. In case you haven’t heard, State Senator Wendy Davis is in the middle of an epic 13 hour filibuster to block a bill...
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RIP Virginia Johnson
On Wednesday, we lost Virginia Johnson, one of the trailblazers of modern sex research. Along with her partner, William H. Masters, she revolutionized the study of human sexuality. Masters and Johnson...
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Masturbation for Better Menopause
It turns out that vibrators are good for something other than making people happy and curing hysteria. Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, of Yale University School of Medicine, has been recommending the use of a...
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Curious About the Clitoris?
Want to know more about your or your partner’s clitoris? Or do you just like winning arguments? (We do.) Either way, Em and Lo, authors of Sex: How to do Everything, have the facts. Did you know that...
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A Less Awful Sex Ed
Did you get sex ed in school? If so, you’re very lucky if was better than the usual scripts: Fourth or fifth grade: “Soon, you will start to grow hair in places. Your body will change in some ways. Do...
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The Future of Condoms
It’s an exciting time to be a condom user. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded eleven $100,000 grants to scientists who designed condoms that people might be more likely to want to wear....
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The Man with Two Penises
A man with a condition called Diphallia – which, yes, means that he was born with two penises – took to Reddit (using the name DoubleDickDude) for a no-holds-barred Q&A session about his unusual...
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Resolved to Do Your Kegels This Year?
We keep hearing from folks whose new year’s resolutions include doing their Kegel exercises. Kegels work out the PC muscle, which runs from the pubic bone to the tailbone and is intimately connected...
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We were thrilled to discover that our own Ashley Manta‘s panel at Catalyst Con was filmed! Now we – and you – can soak up some wisdom. Enjoy! The post Living with an STI appeared first on...
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Lyme Disease: Probably an STI
A recent study in The Journal of Investigative Medicine indicates that Lyme disease can be spread through sexual contact, and not just through the bites of infected ticks. The study followed couples...
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