In our last issue, we noted the story of a former University of Maryland student’s landmark win of a symbolic Title IX judgment of $1 against the university for failing to protect him from an organized student campaign to tar him as a rapist when he wasn’t one. Sometimes, real money can be involved as […]
Japanese Youth May Not Be Having Much Sex, but They Consume Porn
An academic scoping review published in 2025 in the Journal of Sex Research illuminated how Japanese people are having less and less sex, estimating that around half of Japanese people reach their mid-twenties having had no sexual experiences, and approximately 10 per cent reach their 30s before having sex. And yet a different recent study, […]
Mental Health Among Male Dating App Users
A common perception is that users of dating apps are unhappy people who have trouble maintaining a stable monogamous relationship. A recently published study of 578 Australian males offers more nuance. Among straight men, non-users generally reported lower rates of depression, anxiety, stress, and eating disorders, and higher self-esteem; however, the same was not true […]
China Extinguishes More Queer Culture
Beijing’s annual “Love Queer Film Week”, one of the nation’s oldest film festivals and mainland China’s only independent LGBTQ+ film and culture forum, was cancelled following repeated harassment and pressure from police. The festival was founded in 2001 by Peking University students. Its cancellation is indicative of the Chinese government’s increasing restrictions on feminist and […]
Can AI Sex Robots Help Adults with Cognitive Disabilities?
While AI-powered sex robots are as yet merely a theoretical possibility, rapidly progressing technologies make them a realistic possibility in the not too distant future. Can they serve a positive function as tools of sexual education for the intellectually disabled? Too often, cognitive competence is used to gatekeep fundamental sexual rights, and the intellectually impaired […]