Everyone’s always harping on about needing comprehensive sex education, but have you ever looked at the stats of who has the most teen pregnancies and STIs? It’s shocking how un-helpful abstinence-only education really is.
Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that there is a big risk for elderly people to get diseases because when they were kids none of these things like AIDS existed. My grandma has a “special gentleman friend” in her care home and I’ve seen them kissing. How can I talk to her about safe sex? I ...
The HPV vaccine, which guards against the human papillomavirus which can lead to cervical cancer, could lead to unsafe sex according to a new US study. The study showed that 23.6 percent of young women taking the HPV vaccine believed the vaccination could guard against other sexually transmitted infections. And 3.8 percent believed they wouldn’t ...
The Porn Industry is about fantasy. Most of the women act and look far differently than those you would find in the real world. The men have larger than average penis size. And no one uses condoms. The fantasy aspect is a big part of the appeal. Because of this, many members of the porn ...
About seven percent of teen girls are having group sex, according to a recent study conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine. They looked at any sexual experience from a modest threesome to the more advanced orgy. Of the 328 14 to 20-year-olds surveyed, over half said they were pressured and 43 percent claim ...
You’ll be amazed to learn that people do silly things when drunk. Like having sex sans condom. But don’t take my word and everyone else’s for it. Researchers at Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found that study participants who had consumed alcohol were more likely to say they’d have condomless sex than sober ...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend has recently has been talking about cumming on my face. I know he watches porn, and I think he got the idea from porn movies. I do not like the idea of being part of some gross, porn-inspired fantasy, and don’t see why anyone would want a face full of ...
We all hate condoms, right? Well instead of thinking of them as a mood killer, think of them as something that can free you up to enjoy sex without any worries of pregnancy or (most) STIs. Having those worries off your mind will allow you to have awesome care-free sex that rocks your world.
Like to give blow jobs but want to make it safer? You can always use condoms, but if you don’t want to then at least make sure the guy doesn’t ejaculate in your mouth. Although you can still get STIs from this your risk will be lowered for certain infections because you will be exposed ...
Young people in England and Wales are patronized and poorly informed by sex education in schools. Negativity from adults toward teenage sex, along with a lack of basic knowledge about pregnancy and STIs, were flagged up by a recent study commissioned by sexual health and advice service Brook. Young people rely on friends for information, ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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...
