Online treatment for sex infections threatens public’s health
Sub-optimal treatment contributes to gonorrhoea antibiotic resistance and the prospect of no treatment for an infection that affects 30,000 people in the UK
Menstruation: how to break this taboo in the classroom
My #periodpositive project is about boys and girls discussing reproductive health frankly, with humour – and undoing the damage done by femcare manufacturers’ language of shame
Thenmozhi Soundararajan: fighting the Dalit women’s fight with art and activism
The Dalit-American transmedia artist turns a critical lens on the intersection of caste discrimination and sexual violence in India
HIV home-testing kit awaiting approval from Australia’s drug regulator
Researchers say the two-step oral HIV test would help curb infection rates by diagnosing people earlier
Plans for sexual consent lessons in schools ‘do not go far enough’
Ministers back introduction of lessons teaching children importance of consent but expert body says they must be made compulsory in order to achieve results
My ambition is to empower all women to have orgasms
Indonesia needs to scrap demeaning virginity tests, says campaigner Firliana Purwanti. Sexual liberation is the path to equality
Women’s bodies can’t perform magic. Someone please tell Republicans
One congressman this week thought that if women swallow pills, they end up in their vagina. The GOP still knows nothing about female anatomy.
The only people who need to fear an affirmative consent standard for rape are rapists
Prevailing polices that permit silence or nonresistance to be construed as consent contort the very concept of sexual assault beyond recognition
If a woman isn’t interested in sex, the problem quite possibly isn’t with her
A lack of desire for a particular partner can’t be cured with a pill. Sometimes, it takes a little work
Sex education should be mandatory in all schools, MPs demand
Ministers scolded for lack of addressing inadequate teaching despite huge demand from teachers, parents and students