November 11, 2011
All sexually active adults will now be offered an HIV test during all primary care visits in Vancouver and Prince George. The provincial government-funded initiative includes a huge marketing campaign to alert people to the risks of infection and availability of testing. The scheme’s efforts to diagnose 3,500 more people over four years at a ...
Tags: AIDS,
early detection,
gay men,
HIV symptoms,
HIV testing,
HIV transmission,
Prince George,
routine testing,
seroconversion illness,
sex workers,
Vancouver,
young people
October 20, 2011
Not all gay men are (anal) sex fiends. If you ask any Tom, Dick or Harry what they think gay men do in bed, the reply will probably involve an asshole, but a new study from Indiana University and George Mason University is set to challenge this widespread misconception. Apparently, anal sex is the least ...
Tags: AIDS,
anal sex,
Australia,
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blood donation,
Canada,
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HIV,
HIV transmission,
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UK,
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women and anal sex
June 23, 2011
Charlotte York had to get her gay friend Standford’s opinion before deciding whether her boyfriend was gay or not in an episode of Sex and the City. She must lack women’s new sixth sense – gaydar. When 40 female students looked at 80 pictures of men’s faces, half of them straight and half gay, the ...
Tags: children,
choosing a mate,
desire,
desire to conceive,
evolutionary biology,
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fertility cycles,
gay men,
gaydar,
marriage,
ovulation,
sexual desire,
sexual orientation,
sixth sense
May 10, 2011
Gay men are almost twice as likely as straight men to report having had cancer, a new study reveals. The study of more than 120,000 people found that gay men weren’t only more likely to have cancer, but they would also be diagnosed about a decade earlier. Jason Warriner, Clinical Director for HIV and sexual ...
Tags: anal cancer,
anal sex,
bisexual,
cancer,
gay men,
HIV,
HIV and cancer,
HPV,
human papillomavirus,
lesbian,
oral cancer,
recovery
December 2, 2010
Regardless of your sexual orientation, the TSA’s “pat down, feel up” security checks are invasive and uncomfortable. And giving the pat down must feel just as awkward. Oh wait – I forgot that gay men are always up for sex and like to grope other men, regardless of whether they want it or not. Yes, all gay men like to ...
April 22, 2010
A lot of people say anal isn’t really sex. It’s a good alternative which preserves their virginity or keeps their numbers down. Whatever. The thing is that it still requires a condom and less than a quarter of women polled by the NYC Department of Health report used protection. The report, “Women, Unprotected Anal Sex ...
Tags: anal,
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brown star,
bum,
butt,
condoms,
gay men,
gay sex,
HIS transmission,
HIV,
men,
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protection,
Sexual Health,
unprotected anal sex,
vagina,
women,
Women Unprotected Anal Sex and HIV Risk
April 7, 2010
Dear Madame X, I have recently married a lovely man. He is a very kind and caring man from a religious family, but not at all religious himself. However, he often insists on having anal sex and does not seem comfortable with vaginal sex or with me facing him during sex. I think he may ...
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Sex With Madame X,
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March 30, 2010
There has been speculation that Ricky Martin is gay since he first graced the stage shaking his “bon-bon”. It really doesn’t matter, the point is whether or not people like his music. But now as a father of newborn twins he has come out on his website in a heartfelt letter.
Tags: coming out, gay men, homosexual, homosexuality, Ricky MartinMack, Morning Quickie
November 30, 2009
With today being World AIDS Day it seemed a good time to discuss myths and facts about HIV. In spite of over two decades of research and science there is still a lot of misinformation about HIV. Some of these will be discussed below. Myth 1: You cannot get a test for HIV until 6 ...
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World AIDS Day