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As if there weren’t enough reasons out there to convince you to practice safe sex – add this one to your list: a new strand of gonorrhea-causing bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics is now on the loose. Yikes! This new strain of bacteria was discovered in Kyoto, Japan by scientists and ABC News reports that, ”the new [...]
As promised, here is my review of The Epidemic: The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS promises two things in its title: to explore HIV/AIDS both from a global and from an historical perspective. This promise of comprehensive coverage is met with aplomb as Engel takes us on a dizzying tour of the trajectory of [...]
Greetings, MSP readers! I just returned from 3 weeks in India, and I can’t wait to go back! While I was mostly occupied with sightseeing and attending talks at a conference in my home discipline, folklore, I was also attuned to what was going on with sex education and sexuality in India. Here are some [...]
Dearest MSP readers, posts from me will be scarce for a while as I’ll be traveling through India for roughly three weeks. I’m incredibly excited because I’ve been interested in Indian cultures for a while (for example, I’ve researched women’s dress in India), and this will be my first time visiting. I’ll be presenting a [...]
According to this Time.com article, over 10% of teenagers diagnosed with some sort of sexually transmitted disease or infection, such as chlamydia, claim that they’ve never had sex. Obviously there’s something wrong with this statement.
It’s that time of year again which means school is back in session for most college kids. And with STI rates on the rise amongst the youth of America it is more important than ever to make condoms easily available. Every year The Great American Condom Campaign (GACC) provides 1,000,000 Trojan brand condoms to college [...]
According to news reports, Channel 4 Education (in the UK) has commissioned the development of a PC download about sexual health. It’s slated to be called Privates and is described as a “spoof on the Space Marine genre… in which players enter a young men’s privates to shoot down infections.”
Today I appeared on the Tyra Banks Show (that’s me on the left), along with two OB/GYNS, talking about periods, tampons, sex and more. It seemed like a good time to highlight some additional questions that I commonly receive about periods and that perhaps you have too. For example:
Sex Myth #3: Women can have sex “like a man”. Although Sex and the City wasn’t the first to ask the question, they opened their show by asking whether women could have sex like men. I hear women say this, too, often in the context of how women can or whether they should have sex [...]
Most of the time sex runs relatively smoothly, but every now and then a sex crisis occurs that makes it necessary for you to drop everything and fix it ASAP. Here’s how. Sex Crisis #1: The Condom Breaks Although condoms rarely break or slip off, sometimes you and your partner may end up on the [...]
Loading ...Longtime MSP readers will know that we are big fans of Clarisse Thorn‘s writing: she intelligently tackles important sex topics such as BDSM, sexual submission, open relationships, and sex-positivity. So we of course were super-excited when her book, Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser, came out (available on Amazon and Smashwords and in paperback). Clarisse [...]
