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- November 1, 2025
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Meeting Partners Online Yields Poor Results

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An international study of over 6000 partnered individuals from 50 countries shows that 21% of those initiating their relationship since 2010 met their partner online, and that those relationships tended to be less satisfactory and involve lower intensity of experienced love. An article in The Guardian discusses how the new rules and terminology for online […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Sexual Inactivity in Japan

A newly published review in the Journal of Sex Research synthesizes the results of 43 surveys conducted over the last 50 years concerning sexual inactivity, inexperience, and lack of desire among Japanese youth, which is increasingly recognized as a serious social problem in a country worried about population decline. Today, about half the Japanese population […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Bill Aims at Complete Sex Work Decriminalization in Ireland

With support from Irish sex worker organizations, parliamentarian Ruth Coppinger has introduced a bill to repeal key provisions of Ireland’s Sexual Offenses Act 2017, which decriminalized the selling of sex, but outlawed its purchase or the keeping of brothels.  Sex workers have argued that the bill has failed in its intent to reduce the prevalence […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Decline in Youth Trans and Queer Identification?

A study published by the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham uses three surveys to suggest a substantial drop (about 50%) in non-binary self-identification among American students since 2023, and a smaller but not insignificant drop (about 10%) in “queer” self-identification; however, the rate of identification with traditional labels like gay […]

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Filipino Cruise Workers Harassed with False Pornography Charges

We have featured stories in the past where suspicions of sexual immorality are manipulated as excuses to apprehend immigrants. In one of the latest examples of this phenomenon, Customs and Border Patrol agents used trumped-up charges of possessing illegal images of minors to coerce 18 Filipino workers on a Carnival cruise ship, who had valid […]

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