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Gary Pelletier
- July 2, 2025
That’s Prince Faggot to you!
Gary Pelletier
- July 2, 2025
China cracks down on gay fiction as “obscene”
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Sextortion schemes target young men
Sextortion scams where victims are blackmailed via threats to make public sexual photographs or other explicit/intimate content that involves them is on the rise as a criminal activity across the world. This trending style of being an asshole is an
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This ain’t no parade
Although Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government banned Pride gatherings in his country recently, around 100,000 people showed up to March on the 28th in a significant "fuck you!" showing of fierce resistance and solidarity. The amendment to Hungary’s constitution that
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Here we go again speculating on young people’s sex lives
Hot off the press! Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future explores Gen Z’s sex lives (or lack thereof!) and dissects some of the social, political, and psychological factors that may be contouring young people’s sexual subjectivity.
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Have you heard of seminal plasma hypersensitivity?
An underdiagnosed sperm allergy is gaining more visibility. In fact, this is not an allergy to sperm itself, but to the proteins in the seminal plasma that carries the sperm. A 2024 study suggests that this allergy is more common than
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