Breastfeeding for hire to gay couples – what’s not to like?

Joanna Moorhead: Feeding someone else's baby is not new or distasteful, so bonne chance to the Parisian mother advertising her services

Moon may influence sleep, study finds

Even if moonlight isn't streaming through your curtains, the phase of the moon may affect how well you sleep

Why such outrage over porn filters? The idea seems perfectly reasonable to me

Deborah Orr: The angry arguments against David Cameron's opt-in filter proposals seem to imply that it's normal to want access to porn, and abnormal not to want access to porn

Armpits4August is making women’s body hair a feminist issue

Chloe Marshall: How a month-long campaign giving women the opportunity to grow their body hair will help to challenge gender assumptions

Why these female Apprentice finalists give me nothing to cheer about

Lara Whyte: Both Luisa Zissman and Leah Totton's ideas for profit, like their grooming regimes, are profoundly dispiriting

Abortion reform: changing Ireland

Editorial: The ultra-cautious bill has caused great controversy and become to some extent a lightning rod for other discontents

Enda Kenny threatened with excommunication over abortion reform

Irish government on course to push through protection of life in pregnancy bill

El Salvador abortion controversy shows lack of progress on Cairo agenda

Luisa Cabal: The Beatriz case has highlighted the need to integrate women's reproductive rights more firmly into international policy

Sexual health of adolescent girls: learning how to listen

Making young women researchers, not just research subjects, was the key to uncovering their real concerns and beginning behaviour change in one Tanzanian district, writes Jennifer McCleary-Sills

Seattle woman Naveena Shine drops attempt to live on light

Shine went for 47 days without food but says financial difficulties she's enduring are 'message from the universe that it is time to stop'