The government is planning to screen the entire population for HIV and AIDS, amid concerns that one quarter of the people infected by the virus are unaware they have it. Gay men and black Africans, who are reportedly* more likely to carry the virus, will be targeted in the pilot scheme. Brighton and Lewisham will ...
Shag bands, each signifying a sexual act a girl is willing to perform, are taking the British primary school world by storm. Parents are up in arms. Is this an innocent fad or a dangerous trend?
Mick, Morning Quickie
Women provide most of the world’s healthcare, but their medical needs are constantly being ignored by their societies, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. Teenagers and grandmothers are most at risk.
One shot can protect people from genital warts and cervical cancer for life. It is recommended for girls and women to protect them against the virus linked to genital warts and cervical cancer, often caught from men. But giving the shot to everyone to save women’s lives is not cost effective. Men and women are ...
Mick // Children aged four and up will be taught sexual education, according to a new curriculum from Glasgow City Council. The program begins in P1 (kindergarten in America) where children will be taught about body parts and ends in P6 (about grade 4) with information about sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and Aids.
The perpetually-penis fixated doc was convinced that the best, more “mature” orgasms, involved classic man in woman action. A woman satisfied by any means other than full-on sex was the sign of a less mentally developed female. Sigh… according to results from a study done by the University of the West of Scotland he was ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
