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- July 16, 2025
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1 out of 5 people born with a uterus will have it removed

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Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy by medical sociologist Andréa Becker is out this month through New York University Press. Although hysterectomies are common worldwide procedures, they are not a mainstay topic of public discourse. Considering the droves of subjects that are affected by hysterectomies, they should be! This important project explores the […]

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- July 16, 2025
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Let’s celebrate the life of Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s queer poet laureate

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It’s not really Hard Copy’s style to announce a death as news but Andrea Gibson was a phenomenal fuckin’ burst of light on this planet and we’d like to take the opportunity to make you aware of them and their work if you’re not already a fan. As an activist and poet – as well […]

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- July 16, 2025
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Can I choke you?

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The increasing normalization of choking as part of sexual play is causing some sexual subjects alarm. We reported on this in a past sex news load, but the United Kingdom has in fact announced that it will ban the depiction of strangulation in pornography, primarily to safeguard women against violence. As BDSM styles of sex […]

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- July 16, 2025
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Sex work is work!

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Womxn: Working is a recently produced documentary that examines sex work activism in South Africa. Sex work is still criminalized in the country and this important work assesses the damage these archaic laws continue to deal sex worker communities, denying them their rights and freedoms. Directed by Shanelle Jewnarain, the film applies an important feminist […]

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- July 16, 2025
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FTC Targets Pediatric Gender Medicine for Deceptive and Fraudulent Claims

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The Trump administration has expanded its assault on pediatric gender medicine, as the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department have announced they are investigating over 20 gender clinics for making fraudulent and deceptive claims about the medical necessity of gender transition for minor patients. In addition, pharmaceutical companies are being investigated for “violations of drug […]

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- July 16, 2025
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Porn: fruitful or poisonous for couples?

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A recent study from the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships analyzed pornography use in the context of coupled relationality. Specifically, the study considered the motivations behind pornography use and assessed how different motivations affected “daily dynamics” between partners. The results linked pornography as a solo project (for things like stress reduction or as a […]

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- July 16, 2025
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On Canada’s commitment to civility, tolerance, and diversity

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Nations across the globe have had to contend with Donald Trump and his unorthodox (I’m being very generous here) ways of governing the most powerful (although declining) country. Canada, in particular, has been especially tested by the menace south of its border. Francesco MacAllister-Caruso, a PhD candidate at Concordia University, makes a very important point […]

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- July 16, 2025
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It’s time parents grow up re: sex education

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If you know the history of the development of sex education programs then its current failures are not all that surprising. Sex education in the U.S. was born out of the social hygiene movement in the early 1900s. Sex was often chastised as immoral and deviant, and was considered a fast track to disease. Not […]

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- July 16, 2025
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Kinsey Study Suggests Camsite Interactions Can Be Educational

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A large qualitative study by researchers affiliated with the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University suggests that as many as 12% of male clients who regularly use erotic webcam sites such as Livejasmin.com or Chaturbate feel they have learned things they did not previously know about obtaining sexual consent and/or respecting partners. Since the mechanics of […]

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- July 16, 2025
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Conspiracy Theories Continue to Swirl around Jeffrey Epstein

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The belief that there exists an extensive list of well-connected “clients” from the global elite who cavorted with teenage girls at late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s estate in the Virgin Islands has long been a staple of right-wing conspiracy theorizing, including by current officials of the Trump administration. However, now that they are in office, they […]

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