A study of approximately 400,000 UK and Australian adults, mostly middle-aged and older, reveals that about 1% of the population goes through life without ever having experienced any form of sexual intercourse. The study found sexlessness is associated with a range of genetic, environmental, physical and mental factors – but much still remains unclear. Among […]
Texas has passed the so-called Texas Women’s Privacy Act, S.B. 8 which prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in schools and government buildings. This bill also bans women’s violence shelters from providing services to anyone not assigned female at birth unless they are younger than 17 and a child […]
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a policy requiring passport gender markers to match the sex listed on one’s birth certificate. The policy would undo lower-court rulings that allow transgender and nonbinary individuals to use identity-consistent markers, including an “X.” This dispute is one of several over an executive order […]
Texas now lets people sue anyone who mails abortion pills into the state. That means neighbors, strangers, even activists online could take someone to court. Critics see it as an effort to not only impose Texas laws on other states but turn citizens in to anti-abortion “bounty hunters”. The pills in question are mifepristone and […]
Finnish MP, Anna Kontula, who has served as a leftist deputy in Finland’s parliament since 2011 and has championed sex worker rights consistently, revealed in an interview with a Finnish newspaper that she had herself been a sex worker since the age of 16. “I wanted to make a living and this was a pretty […]