Imagine hearing on the news that people in your city might have been exposed to HIV or hepatitis but you don’t know when or how it happened and you don’t know if you are one of them. This is what’s happening in Ottawa after health officials notified the press that over 7,000 people have been ...
Hepatitis C patients in Britain have to fear no more as a wonder drug is now available that will rid them of the virus completely. There have been products before to suppress the symptoms, but now Victrelis has the potential to clear the virus for those with genotype 1, the most common form of the ...
Dear Madame X, My brother’s friend has HIV. He’s a great kid but when he was diagnosed it really messed with his head. He went from a good kid to a bad one, but I know that inside there is still a good heart. Last night my brother told me that he doesn’t know ...
Lawmakers in Los Angeles want condoms to be mandatory in porn. This is an issue that has been on the tables on and off for years. It recently came back on when a porn star was diagnosed with HIV. “Last week, city lawmakers voted unanimously to draft an ordinance that would require condoms to be ...
Whoever said that religious people were not clued up about sexual health obviously hasn’t met the Muslim Pakistani community in Britain. Mosques have been offering screenings for hepatitis C and over 5,000 people have used this service.
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend REFUSES to go down on me when I have my period. He just point-blank refuses. He says it’s disgusting and he doesn’t like the smell or taste. I told him he was being sexist and that there is nothing wrong with it. We can do everything else when I have ...
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 ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
