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....
Sep 22, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News
OK. This is cool. Imagine replacing ovaries in women who had them removed due to cancer restoring fertility and hormone production. The original article in Nature Communications is titled “A bioprosthetic ovary created using 3D printed microporous scaffolds...
Sep 19, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News
NPR has an article out (and a radio show) interviewing Linda Kay Klein and highlighting her new book and work in helping women “release shame and claim their whole selves.” While she points out it isn’t just a church effect, the focus of the article...
Sep 7, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News
GQ followed up on a meta analysis(1)Hagai Levine, Niels Jørgensen, Anderson Martino-Andrade, Jaime Mendiola, Dan Weksler-Derri, Irina Mindlis, Rachel Pinotti, Shanna H Swan. (2017). Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression...
Sep 4, 2018 | Curated information, Sex in the News
How do we decide when, what, and how, we teach healthy sexuality? Do we go with the often dominant message of silence is best? Do we let numbers like those in this article speak? Quick excerpt… How the Dutch Do Sex Ed In the Netherlands, one of the world’s most...
