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- January 1, 2026
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The Kink Community Responds to BDSM Depiction in Pillion

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The new film, Pillion, which Hard Copy reported on last June, is starting to receive positive reviews. The film tells the story of the relationship between Colin, a timid man, who is swept off his feet by Ray, an enigmatic and impossibly handsome biker. Ray, a dom, takes Colin on as his submissive. After opening […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Two American Anti-Trans Bills Will Move To Senate

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The Trump administration and the Republican party at large have ratcheted up their efforts to dismantle gender affirming care for youth. This effort comes in the form of two bills that recently passed through the House of Representatives. The first, a la representative Marjorie Taylor Green, criminalizes parents and healthcare providers who facilitate gender affirming […]

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- January 1, 2026
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2025 Year in Review and Trends for 2026

With the end of the year comes lists of trends from the past year and trends for the upcoming year. Grindr has provided an extensive overview of the trends and “best of” for 2025 in Grindr Unwrapped 2025. Favorite stats include most searched profile tag (“hung”), country sending most nudes (Finland), most proclaimed “daddies” (USA). […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Gay Male Visibility in Pop Culture Varies

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The popularity of the queer Canadian sports series, Heated Rivalry is still growing since its debut on November 28th. In contrast, the second season of Boots, the Netflix series about a closeted young gay man and his straight best friend who join the marines, has been cancelled after the Trump administration referred to it as […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Meta Censors Sex Activism

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Meta was criticized by sex worker activists in the UK for deleting the Instagram accounts of sex-worker led art collectives, including Sexquisite, Cybertease, and UK Sex Worker Pride. Advocates say these accounts, with over 52,000 followers, were fully compliant with Instagram’s rules, but were deleted without notice. This appears to be part of a larger […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Less Sex, More Divorce, and Other 2025 Intimacy Trends

Avi Wolfman-Arent and Cherri Gregg, hosts of Studio 2, a podcast on WHYY-FM out of Philadelphia, discuss sex and romance trends with guests: Debby, Lauren Harris, and Andrew Hatherley. In this episode they talk about the sex recession and why later-life divorce is trending upward. The sex recession is seeing less partnered sex and less […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Bisexuals Score Lowest on Mental Health Indices

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A new meta-analysis combining data from 28 studies suggests that sexual and gender minorities are not only at increased risk of mental health problems, but also have more difficulty in regulating their emotions. This is usually ascribed to “minority stress,” but that thesis is undercut by the finding that bisexuals experienced greater problems with emotional […]

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- January 1, 2026
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That Awkward World Cup Situation Continues to Unfold

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There’s an interesting cultural phenomenon happening right now bringing queerness and organized sport together in the Zeitgeist. One example is the 2026 Fifa World Cup Match between Egypt and Iran scheduled in June in the midst of host city Seattle’s annual pride celebrations, a plan that was made prior to anyone knowing which teams would […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Victims of Disgraced “Operation Underground Railroad” Still Suffer

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Despite the disgrace of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) following revelations that its founder Tim Ballard, subject of a heroic 2023 biopic, was himself a serial sexual predator toward women who worked in the organization, many victims of its ethically questionable tactics continue to suffer imprisonment or sex offender registration. Ballard’s relentless self-promotion netted the organization […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Less Sex on Screen in Hollywood

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A recent survey conducted by the Teens & Screens project at UCLA suggests that nearly half of Gen Z moviegoers think there is too much explicit sex in movies and on TV, and would like to see more narratives about non-romantic friendships. Hollywood producers have responded by scaling back on scenes of sex and nudity […]

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