Australian journalist Bension Siebert believes that he’s recently “stumbled onto a cheat code to capitalism,” having found out firsthand that he could earn way more moolah in far less time as a sex worker. Last year, at 31 years of age, Siebert, an award-winning Australian investigative journalist, lost his journalism job, prompting a turn to […]
A Sex-Starved Cultural Consciousness
We’ve noticed a recent rash of films that center sex. What do you think that’s all about? Regardless, it’s sure been hard to miss. A couple news loads ago we told you about The Invite, a sex comedy and relationship drama centered on a struggling married couple whose party of two is transformed after they […]
A Good Top is Hard to Find
Understanding how men who have sex with men (MSM) identify with sexual role labels such as Top, Bottom, or Versatile offers descriptive insights into how sexuality, identity, and self-presentation of masculinity intersect on dating platforms. Drawing on cross-sectional data from 141,156 active users of the global gay dating app Surge, a new study describes age-based […]
Sexual Synesthesia
Synesthesia is a neurological condition that causes the senses to link and merge. People with this condition may hear colors or taste words and more than 4% of people have some form of synesthesia. People who experience sexual synesthesia, or sexual synesthetes, may have involuntary visions of color, shapes, patterns, or even full-blown scenes when […]
Students Shedding Pubic Hair
Researchers from Indiana University studied a total of 3,139 students (about evenly divided between males and females), who completed the online Campus Sexual Health Survey, to assess their habits of genital grooming. Over 97% of students had shaved or trimmed pubic hair at some point in their life, with an average starting age of 15.5 years. […]
Broadening Our View of Autoeroticism
Sexual self-stimulation takes more forms than just stroking one’s genitals, as a recent weighted sample of 3,423 American adults shows. Some people arouse themselves by reading erotica or touching different parts of their body, or merely through personal fantasies; orgasm can also be induced by “syntribation,” which involves flexing pelvic or thigh muscles. Although little […]
LGBTQ+ on the Defensive: From Book Bans to One Million Moms Against PrEP
One Million Moms (1MM), an organization with less than 100,000 members, has taken offense to ads for PrEP, an HIV prevention drug, that are being shown on TV Land. 1MM is demanding the network stop running the ads even though the ads do not explicitly mention HIV, homosexuality, or the LGBTQ+ community. The ads feature […]
An LGBTQ+ Youth Camp in…Texas?
Color Splash Out is a pay-what-you-can summer camp in Texas that provides queer and trans youth with a rare safe environment where they can socialize and express themselves without fear of judgment. The camp is particularly important for young people from the Rio Grande Valley, a poor and majority Latino region, which lacks any queer […]
Are Australia’s Rape Reforms Sending Innocent Men to Jail?
Australian sex therapist and men’s rights advocate Bettina Arndt criticizes recent changes in Australia’s enforcement of rape laws prompted by a report of the Australian Law Reform Commission that found the system was failing to hold “those who use sexual violence to account.” She points out that this intensified push to prosecute has resulted in […]
The Confessional Remains Secret, Even in Cases of Child Abuse
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that any requirement for churches to report confessions of child sexual abuse made to clergy is unconstitutional under the religious freedom protections of the First Amendment. The case in question concerns a lawsuit against the Mormon (LDS) Church by children of a deceased Border Patrol agent who abused them […]