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Christmas Good Causes: for your consideration
TweetIt’s nearly Christmas and you may have already got gifts for friends and family. But if you’re still wondering what last minute goodies to buy, or can stretch to one more present, then here’s a few suggestions for charities and organisations who could do with your support. These are all programmes I feel are often [...]
Posted in Abortion/TOP, Activism and Open Access, Contraception, Female Sexual Dysfunction, Health/care, International, Medicalisation, Sex education, Sex positive, Uncategorised Comments closed
‘Porn Block’ – a realistic proposal from the UK government?
This is a somewhat lengthy post, tackling a range of issues thrown up by the proposal to restrict access to online porn
Posted in Child(ren), Commercialisation, Critical appraisal, Evidence based, Pornography, Sex education, Teenager(s) Comments closed
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers 2010
Tweet Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. If you’ve not heard about it before it aims to highlight hate crimes committed against sex workers, show support for and among sex workers, and alert the public about the physical and emotional violence sex workers face – and the systems that maintain this. [...]
Posted in Activism and Open Access, Homo/transphobia, Human rights/law, International, Prostitution, Uncategorised Comments closed
World AIDS Day 2010
TweetToday is World AIDS Day with events taking place globally around the theme of Universal Access and Human Rights. You can follow discussions about the day with links to activities and organisations involved on twitter using the hashtags #WAD2010 and #PreventionRevolution Access is an important but often overlooked issue within this area. Getting education to [...]
Posted in Academia, Activism and Open Access, Critical appraisal, Evidence based, Health/care, HIV/AIDS, Homo/transphobia, Human rights/law, Sexually transmitted infection(s), Uncategorised, Violence/Abuse Comments closed
Page 3 at 40 – a cause for celebration?
TweetThis week, according to The Sun, the newspaper marks 40 years of Page 3. Across the course of the week the paper promises further celebrations, including a giveaway of a pack of playing cards and images of popular Page 3 girls such as Sam Fox, Jordan and Linda Lusardi. Although Page Three seemed to have [...]
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The Mass Libel Reform Blog – Join The Fight for Free Speech!
Tweet This week is the first anniversary of the report Free Speech is Not for Sale, which highlighted the oppressive nature of English libel law. In short, the law is extremely hostile to writers, while being unreasonably friendly towards powerful corporations and individuals who want to silence critics. To commemorate this event, bloggers, journalists and [...]
Posted in Activism and Open Access, Politics Comments closed
“VD is for everybody”
Tweet There’s been a lot of interest online today about a 1969 Public Service Advert – ‘VD is for everybody’, which shows a range of people who could have a sexually transmitted infection. You can see it here: Having been flagged up on Boing Boing debate has centred on whether the advert was counter productive [...]
Posted in Condom(s), Movie(s), Sexually transmitted infection(s), Television Comments closed
Turning tricks: A horrid Halloween tale of a polling company, a parenting website and the misrepresentation of mothers
Tweet Yesterday I was alerted to a worrying press release by @MrMMarsh (who has an amazing track record in critiquing commercial surveys). It was for Bounty.com – a parenting website, conducted by OnePoll. It claimed “one in 10 women have tricked a man into getting them pregnant with less than half actually wanting the person [...]
Posted in Contraception, Parents, Postnatal, PR, Pregnancy, Surveys/questionnaires Comments closed
Revisiting my sex and relationships predictions for 2010