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Sex and science stuff 12/10/09

By Dr Petra | Published: 12 October, 2009
TweetHere’s another roundup of some science/sex stories that have caught my attention recently. Firstly, here’s a big round of applause for Good Housekeeping magazine (UK). GH may not be the typical title you’d associate with cutting edge sex advice, but they’ve recently published a fantastic and sex positive discussion of intimacy for older women. It [...]
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Journalists and students take note – how not to suck at interviewing

By Dr Petra | Published: 16 June, 2009
TweetThe real joy of writing a blog is you fairly frequently find someone who says what you’d like to say. Only they say it better, and with more balls. So today I really enjoyed reading Feminisnt’s blog How not to suck at interviewing me. Aimed at journalists, journalism students, and all those social science students [...]
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Sex education by age – key messages for parents

By Dr Petra | Published: 3 April, 2009
TweetToday I was on ITV’s This Morning programme discussing how to talk to your kids about sex and relationships. One of the things the programme makers asked me to outline was the general messages parents could be giving children and teens at different ages. Here’s a summary of the things your child/teen is capable of [...]
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Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country

By Dr Petra | Published: 4 November, 2008
TweetYes, the time has finally come when we have the chance to say a cheery ‘good bye’ to the Bush administration. In case you’re wondering what you might be missing here are a few ‘Bushisms’ for good measure I’ve been hearing a lot recently that we can’t be too hard on Bush because he organised [...]
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Ten steps for successful dating

By Dr Petra | Published: 4 January, 2008
TweetChristmas can be a tricky time if you’re single – all those couples to feel envious of, and the inevitable Aunty asking you over the turkey ‘are you still on your own then?’. Then the New Year always seems to bring endless TV adverts from dating agencies. So it’s hardly surprising many single folk decide [...]
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FHM censured for showing photos of an underage girl

By Dr Petra | Published: 11 September, 2007
TweetThe Press Complaints Commission have censured FHM magazine for featuring a photograph of a 14 year old girl. The photos, taken by a mobile phone, were sent to the magazine. FHM claim they were under the impression the girl was older (based on her looks and their being told she was living with the person [...]
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Spotlight on Sex Surrogacy

By Dr Petra | Published: 27 July, 2007
TweetIn this month’s UK edition of Cosmopolitan there’s a fascinating article on sex surrogacy by Julia Buckley. In the piece two sex surrogates are interviewed – a female sex surrogate who works with male clients, and a male surrogate who works with female clients. Both surrogates in the Cosmo feature deal with clients who want [...]
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Taking a break from blogging

By Dr Petra | Published: 9 May, 2007
TweetI’m going to be taking a break from blogging for the next few weeks, but please keep checking back as I’ll be writing again shortly. Here are a few of my favourite sex, psychology and science blogs and websites you might want to drop into Cory Silverberg’s blog for About.com The Countess’ blog Tracy Quan [...]
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Wishing you a very happy International Women’s Day

By Dr Petra | Published: 8 March, 2007
TweetIn case you weren’t aware of it, today is International Women’s Day. You can find out more about the event and what’s going on around the world here. I thought to celebrate the day I’d share those who inspire me – or what Maya Angelou calls our ‘she-roes’. Artists, Singers and Writers Josephine Baker Lee [...]
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Which part of this sentence does the media not understand? Boots are NOT selling Viagra.

By Dr Petra | Published: 14 February, 2007
TweetSorry for the Valentine’s day rant but the press is yet again full of coverage today telling us that Viagra is now on sale in Boots. This is not true. Boots are doing a small scale pilot of three pharmacies in Manchester to see if prescribing samples of the drug to men is worth persuing. [...]
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