It has been hard to miss the growing media coverage of the Zika virus. With a possible link between the infection of pre…
Sex & Sexuality
‘Slut-shaming’ Charlie Sheen should be the last of our concerns
This week, in Literally The Stupidest Thing I have Read About Charlie Sheen In The Past 48 Hours, is the call to “…
On the Ashley Madison hack: Cheating isn’t a gender-neutral issue
The news of the Ashley Madison data breach and subsequent release of users’ confidential details last week has bee…
Tinder fearmongering won’t erase the underlying problem of porn culture
An article in the September issue of Vanity Fair by Nancy Jo Sales painted a rather depressing picture of heterosexual d…
Can 'maintenance sex' ever be gender neutral?
Ah, “maintenance sex.” That good old fashioned idea that we are obligated to satisfy our partner’s sex…
Jian Ghomeshi’s ‘consent’ defence shows why ‘consent’ isn’t good enough
The CBC announced yesterday that they would be ending their relationship with Jian Ghomeshi, host of cultural affairs ra…
Surprise! Teen girls are having anal sex because they're being pressured into it
My first boyfriend was pissed that I wouldn’t have anal sex with him. Not just because he, you know, wanted to try…
Let’s make ‘androsexism’ a thing we talk about
We already have lesbophobia, I think we need to add androsexism to our dictionary of words to describe the, shall we say…
Student virginity auctions and sexual economics
There has been another high profile student virginity auction; a concept I’ve been familiar with since at least 20…
The gays are everywhere
If I were to announce that this is a post about the woes of queer youth in the countryside, I can be fairly sure most pe…