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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.
“What do you do?” It’s a question that always makes my heart sink, which aspect of what I do should I highlight in the answer to this minefield of a question. The answer must be brief because the attention…
After treatment ends, many cancer survivors are left with sexual changes that, when left unaddressed, can become long-term problems.
The who, how, and what of sex-based laboratory studies may all be a little problematic, so can we generalise from their findings?
Health-care providers need to view the health of young gay men within a broader context of personal health and not solely defined by HIV.
Learning about sex at school is crucial for children, but they need support at home too.
A new report from MPs on the Education Select Committee calling for sex education to be made statutory, has much in it to be welcomed by those who have been campaigning for improvements in the provision…
Each year in the United States about 720,000 people have heart attacks and about 124,000 people in the UK and 55,000 people in Australia will have them as well. Since the 1980s, survival rates from heart…
When we consider society’s prevailing view of late-life sexuality, the convention has been that older people are not particularly sexually active or interested in intimate sexual relationships. These preconceptions…
Sexual preferences are not set in stone and can change over time, often depending on the immediate situation the individual is in. This has been described as sexual fluidity. For example, if someone identifies…
Older people, and particularly older women, are often thought of as being asexual or sexually undesirable. Although the particular age this is believed to happen varies somewhat in the popular imagination…
Talking about sex, intimacy and risk-taking with adolescents is not as easy as busting out a Salt-N-Pepa classic. Catchy lyrics aside, parents may be grappling with a number of questions: Is my adolescent…
The recently published Italian study suggesting women can only have clitoral, rather than vaginal, orgasms raises important questions about the medicalisation of female sexuality and sexual dysfunction…
The Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR), the latest findings of which were released recently, has much to commend it. Like its counterpart, the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes…
Controversy over vaginal versus clitoral orgasm is nothing new; it’s a debate that has consumed sexologists and psychoanalysts for the last 100 years. Now, new research has added fresh fuel to the controversy…
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Women's Health Psychology, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Sexual health researcher, The University of Melbourne
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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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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, City University of New York
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Endocrinologist and Andrologist, Cabrini Hospital & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of medicine, Monash University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Practice, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor in Sexual Health, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
