Dec 5, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Addiction/compulsivity
“Posts that contain adult contentwill no longer be allowed on Tumblr” So read the blog post announcement by Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio on Monday (12/3/18). This comes with an update to their community guidelines (set to go into effect 12/17/18) that states:...
Nov 23, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Addiction/compulsivity, Sexual Research Review
Researchers from the University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality reported this month on research into the prevalence of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder(1)Dickenson JA, Gleason N, Coleman E, Miner MH. Prevalence of Distress Associated With Difficulty...
Nov 15, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Research Review
“There is evidence of huge and significant decline in the prevalence of FGM/C among children across countries and regions.” Recent estimates show that more than 200 million women and children around the world have undergone female genital mutilation and...
Oct 20, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News
What do Apple computers and speculums have in common? Frog Not the amphibian, but the design company. Frog Design had a hand in the iconic design of the original Apple computer and has been working on a redesign of the ancient speculum used...
Oct 13, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
New CDC statistics on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) show a sharp rise in chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis for the fourth consecutive year. Concerns abound for newborns with congenital syphilis and treatment resistant strains. “We are sliding backward” –...
Oct 10, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Abuse
Sextortion is “threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, usually for the purpose of procuring additional images, sexual acts, money, or something else”(1)Patchin, J. W., & Hinduja, S....
