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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Scary sex education issues in India
TweetAccording to The Times of India, six states have banned sex education. This is at a time when the estimated prevalence of HIV in India is 5.7 million (and that’s probably an underestimate). Three of the states to ban sex education include Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujurat – all of which have some of the highest [...]
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Answers to your questions about homosexuality
TweetThe American Psychological Association have created a helpful list of frequently asked questions about homosexuality that you may find interesting. They cover issues including whether therapy can make you straight, is homosexuality a mental illness, is being gay a choice and what leads people to have particular sexual orientations. The answers are clear and straightforward [...]
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Charlie Rose on Human Sexuality
TweetThe recent Charlie Rose show covers a debate on the science of sex. You can watch the 50 minute programme here. I found the programme interesting in the way it constructed human sexuality (predominantly as heterosexual) and research (as if the scientific study of sex began with Kinsey). A number of key figures in sexology [...]
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Jungle Gemma’s squeeze technique – but will this health advice do more harm than good?
TweetCoinciding with her appearance on ITV’s ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ ex-Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson is backing a new campaign to raise funds for the Everyman cancer charity. Posing cheekily with a snooker cue in promotional photos Ms Atkinson has clearly been picked to appeal to a young male audience by Rileys [...]
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Help! I’m a sex addict and I didn’t even know it
TweetRecently I was reading Marty Klein’s controversial blog Sexual Intelligence. In one recent entry he debates the issue of sex addiction and linked to Patrick Carnes’ sex addiction screening test (SAST). Now of all the things you know push my buttons are sex and (rather more sadly) questionnaires. So the chance to have a go [...]
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Too much TV, low self esteem and a bad relationship with your folks? A recipe for early teen sex – but not, apparently, a life of deliquency
TweetTwo pieces of sex research out today have some rather interesting findings about teen sex and relationships. The first is a study of 273 young people by psychologists Janet Shibley Hyde and Myeshia Price. They followed a group of children over a two year period and identified a number of key factors that contributed to [...]
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GI Jonny strikes again!
TweetI can almost hear the pens of angry middle Englanders hitting their notelets as I write. ‘Dear BBC. Why oh why oh why do you produce such filth?’ Yes, GI Jonny is at it again. You may remember a previous blog introducing the GI Jonny safer sex campaign which is part of a wider BBC [...]
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Calling all journalists – are your sex features good enough to win an award?
TweetCory Silverberg has information about a new award for journalists – The Sexies. These awards are for sex positive journalism, and aim to celebrate good sex writing. They also aim to link journalists with resources to help improve their practice. Obviously I’m very keen to support sex positive journalism as it’s something that’s very close [...]
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Science and sex stuff 10/11/07
TweetHere are some of the sex/science stories that caught my attention recently. Click on the blue titles to read the full story…. Does Hip Hop music cause unsafe sex? A report in the New York Times focuses on research from Columbia University where Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy has been studying youth culture and the impact of [...]
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