Category Archives: Newspapers

Lapdancing research update – The Regulatory Dance

By Dr Petra | Published: 5 April, 2011
TweetThere are many times in a researcher’s career when you really wish you could have come up with a particular study idea, got it funded, and supervised it to completion. One recent example for me was the ESRC funded project that aimed to find out more about lap dancing. Over the past year researchers have [...]
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“Facebook linked to a rise in syphilis” – no, it’s not.

By Dr Petra | Published: 24 March, 2010
TweetSeveral papers carried the worrying story today suggesting links between social networking sites and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) Facebook ‘linked to a rise in syphilis’ – Telegraph Facebook ‘sex encounters’ linked to rise in Syphilis in North East – Metro Sex diseases soaring due to Facebook romps – The Sun Web casual sex sparks syphilis [...]
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Media: “I’ve never treated you like a whore” Sex Writer: “You just did”*

By Dr Petra | Published: 16 March, 2010
TweetLast week the Independent ran a feature with the exciting headline “I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”. Sounded fascinating. Another tart with a heart story, perhaps? No, reading the piece indicated the headline was wrong. The feature described blogger and sex writer Zoe Margolis, better known as the Girl with a One [...]
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Celebrating this blog’s fifth birthday!

By Dr Petra | Published: 30 November, 2009
It's five years since I started blogging. So please put on a party hat, help yourself to some nibbles, and join me for a look back over the past half decade.
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“Twilight Success” – I invented that

By Dr Petra | Published: 11 November, 2009
Yesterday I discovered I’ve been quoted about the book/film Twilight in a Dutch newspaper. The journalist who wrote it must have been psychic, because they never interviewed me for the piece. And I can’t work out where the information they attributed to me came from. Must be the mysterious effect fictitious vampires have on the media. Read on for a creepy tale of supernatural journalism…..
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It’s just a word…

By Dr Petra | Published: 29 November, 2004
TweetThe word ‘therapist’ means something. It’s a job title like ‘cardiologist’, ‘architect’, ‘choreographer’, or ‘solicitor’. You’d expect newspapers to get basic facts like this correct. I opened my Sunday paper this morning to see myself described as ‘Dr Petra Boynton, Relationship Therapist’. Which is all very nice, except I’m not a therapist. I’m a psychologist [...]
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