Contrary to common fears, sexy media doesn’t seem to have any practical significance for when teens first have sex or start other sexual behaviors.
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Many people aren’t interested in having sex or don’t feel sexual attraction to other people. Is it normal to be like this?
The active ingredient in the gel can bind to various viruses and stop them from attaching and getting into human cells.
Developers are using wearable tech to help women and girls better understand their bodies.
Pornography has implications for public health, but scholars need to think critically about the issue and look past rhetoric.
Its attitude to porn and anal sex suggests the government would benefit from some sex ed classes too.
Sex can often be a pleasurable experience. But it also has benefits some reports have compared to those of exercise. So can sex really count as a workout?
Asking patients about sexual matters is universally recognized as an important part of collecting a patient’s medical history. But many physicians don’t take sexual histories from their patients.
Australia has a vibrant, culturally rich, queer history and it should be acknowledged in our schools.
Drugs scare us and fascinate us. Societies might fight “wars” against drugs – but we also drink, smoke, ingest and inject an awful lot of them. The Ancient Greeks captured this instability with their concept…
When students land on campus, they often have unanswered questions about their reproductive health. One solution: create a massive open online class to teach them about reproductive health.
HIV is still a major public health issue among the most at-risk groups, and efforts to tackle it need to get smarter.
Our sex lives may change as we get older but those in sexual relationships still want the same things as the young.
Sex ed curricula that tie premarital sex to shame are especially unhelpful, and even harmful, for youth who have been sexually abused.
In any other industry, protection would be mandatory. But the porn lobby is too powerful.
PrEP drugs to prevent people contracting HIV mustn’t disrupt existing sexual health strategies.
Tackling men’s reluctant condom use comes down to the basics of how they view sex.
The syphilis outbreak in Central Australia is not about child abuse. But it highlights the urgent need for investment in sexual health services for Aboriginal Australians living in remote areas.
A taboo around older age sex is diminishing but some still find it hard.
Starting HIV treatment early, before immune damage occurs, brings real clinical benefits, a new study has shown.
Top contributors
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Professor of Women's Health Psychology, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Honorary Professor in Sexual Health, UNSW Sydney
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Sexual health researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Practice, University of Sydney
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Endocrinologist and Andrologist, Cabrini Hospital & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of medicine, Monash University
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Associate Professor, City University of New York
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Media and Communication and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Director, SPHERE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care and Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
