Equality Now, 2016 The 2016 FGM Stories series will feature first hand narratives on the impact of FGM on women and girls from various backgrounds, and provides readers with related actions they can take to support the global movement to end this human rights abuse. The personal testimonies will illustrate the severe physical and psychological consequences of FGM, and challenge the misconception...
NSW Government, 2016 This website lets you access up to date resources, information and professional learning to support teaching K-6 sexuality education and 7-12 sexual health education. It is aimed at teachers in NSW but there are also content which can be used more generally or adapted for other jurisdictions. Contents: Teaching sexuality and sexual health education Creating a supportive...
nam/aidsmap, 24 February 2016 A survey of HIV-positive patients attending 30 HIV clinics in England and Wales has found that nearly a third (29%) of gay male patients reported engaging in ‘chemsex’ (defined by the researchers as “The use of drugs to increase disinhibition and arousal”) in the past year and that one in 10 reported ‘slamsex’ (injecting – or being injected with – the drugs). Read...
The Age, February 18, 2016 – 1:17AM Did the word “pleasure” ever crop up in your sex education class at school? Chances are that, between ripping condoms off bananas and examining the vast array of sexually transmitted diseases, the notion that sex could be pleasurable, didn’t exactly leap to mind. But a new, progressive, sex education resource for secondary students...
VICE magazine, 16th February 2016 “If you have sex with a prostitute without her permission, is it rape or shoplifting?” This is just one of the tasteless gags that comes up when you type “prostitute jokes” into Google. Some people still believe there is a core of truth to it. There is currently a nasty strand of public opinion that says it is impossible to rape a sex...
nam/aidsmap, 15 February 2016 A group of researchers have cleared up an important question about HIV transmission, in experiments on mice. Although HIV-infected CD4 cells persist in the vagina even on antiretroviral therapy (ART) that fully suppresses free HIV in the blood and body fluids, these cells are not anything like numerous enough to pose any transmission threat. Read more here ...