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- March 2, 2026
Enough Already! Trans Distraction in Arizona and Kansas
Julie
- March 1, 2026
The Big Kink Survey
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HIV Policy from Fiji to Florida
Fiji is in the grips of an HIV outbreak that’s largely fueled by a drug epidemic. It is now the fastest-growing HIV outbreak in the world. Fiji is responding through evidence based harm reduction. To support national action to stop
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Same-Sex Relations in the Animal Kingdom
We noticed a plethora of sex stories about non-human animals in circulation while we were organizing our March 1digest. This extensive study from Nature Ecology and Evolution found that same-sex relations are common in nonhuman primate species, and the research
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How Big a Threat is AI-Generated Child Porn?
An article in the New York Times in July 2025 reported that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) claimed to have received over 485,000 tips about AI-generated child pornography in the first six months of the year,
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Helping Boys Understand Consent
A study interviewing 35 Australian men aged 18-32 found they understood sexual consent in the abstract, “but struggled to apply it in practice.” Most of them “found verbal requests for consent awkward, unnecessary, or disruptive,” instead relying intuitively on their
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Female Tortoises Commit Suicide to Avoid Sexual Harassment
In this study the mating behaviors of tortoises on Golem Grad Island in North Macedonia were analyzed and it was determined that a significant proportion of females died young, and from walking off cliffs in particular. While it was noticed
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Colorado May Decriminalize Sex Work
A bill introduced by four legislators, all Democrats, three of whom are female, would completely decriminalize commercial sex and prohibit localities from banning it. Supporters say it will make sex workers safer by bringing them out of the shadows. Opponents,
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High-End Penis Enhancement
For the last 8 years, Dr. David Shafer, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, has been offering a procedure to pump the penis full of hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring substance in the body, thereby increasing its girth. The weight of the
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