Hard Copy reported a Swiss study regarding the orgasm gap between cisgender men and women in our last edition. A new Italian study looks at the same gap. Study author Cristina Civilotti of the University of Turin and her colleagues examined how often people experience orgasm and which factors are associated with it in a […]
Baby Steps for LGBTQ Legal Reform in Hungary
In the post-Orban era in Hungary, some rights that were stripped under Orban are being restored. Hungarian lawmakers voted to remove anti-LGBTQ provisions that were included in a 2021 law that were intended to protect children. “Fundamentally, our goal was to move away from a flawed paradigm, linking child protection in any way to sexual […]
Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea
A gut pathogen, shigellosis, that causes diarrhea and vomiting is on the rise. Shigellosis is a highly contagious bug that has been known to spread through contaminated food or water but is now emerging as a sexually transmitted infection as well. Shigella may still be transmitted through contaminated food or water as well as sexually, but […]
Is Cambridge Now a Crimson-Light District?
The city council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to Harvard University and MIT, voted 8-0 to instruct local police to consider arresting individuals for consensual adult sex work a “low priority.” The neighboring town of Somerville did the same in 2019. These local moves do not invalidate state law banning prostitution, but they do have the […]
Pro-Family Group Claims Religious Couples Have More Sex
A new report issued by the Christian conservative Institute of Family Studies aims to counter the common perception that religion and sexual satisfaction are antithetical. Drawing on data from both the General Social Survey and a survey the Institute itself administered to 3,125 married respondents aged 18 to 54, they found that 62% of those […]
Are 1 in 5 Kids Victims of Molestation?
That is the implication of One in Five, a new book by Elizabeth Letourneau and Luke Malone, which hypes child sexual abuse as the “biggest public health crisis of our time.” The book argues that we urgently need to create a federal “Office of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention” to fund researchers like them. While the […]
Russell FitzGerald’s Art of Queer Negrophilia
A newly released book revives the largely forgotten art of Russell FitzGerald (1932–1978), a bi-sexual painter with his early roots in San Francisco’s beat and North Beach poetry scenes, who later became committed to examining his erotic desire for Black men and to understanding the historical forces that prevented the communion between Black and white […]
Fuckboys on Speed Dial
A recent study in Sexuality and Culture by Dr. Carey M. Noland, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, claims to be the first empirical examination of “roster” relationships. Rosters can be defined as forms of casual sexual relations in which one person maintains multiple simultaneous and non-committed (aka: “no strings […]
Sexual Pleasure and Menopause
Obviously, we at Hard Copy are sex-positive and believe everyone has the right to sex. And besides being fun, a healthy sex life is also good for your physical and mental health. Unfortunately, the symptoms of peri-menopause and menopause can make sex painful and the sex drive plummet for women experiencing those symptoms. With scientific […]
Rape Myths and Prevention
As a grand jury in New York State reviews the alleged gang rape of a female student at Cornell University in 2024, the ways in which universities handle sexual violence among their students is being questioned. A recent U.K. study looked at acceptance of rape myths, such as “she was asking for it” or “she […]