Triangle Trade in Foreskins, Part 2
It is no accident that the effort to circumcise men in HIV crisis areas of Africa came to the fore during the long reign of Bush’s Global Gag Rule. His administration’s sex-negative “health” policies erected barriers to condom distribution, limited the ability of organizations to educate populations about safer sex practices and preferentially funded abstinence-only [...]
Triangle Trade in Foreskins, Part 1
US exportation of male circumcision to Africa seems like a creepy continuation of our centuries-long fetish about Black male sexuality.
Questions your Children Ask Me: “Why did you only say ‘women?’”
I volunteer teach sex ed for Planned Parenthood in the Los Angeles area. Every once in a while, I talk about a question I got in class. Here’s one. Kids and adults alike are freaked out about herpes, way out of proportion to what the disease does to the body. Some people get suicidally depressed [...]
Not supposed to be happy
Men are marginally more attracted to the gaits of women in the fertile part of their cycle. This might explain why non-consensual intercourse results in a higher pregnancy rate than consensual intercourse.
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