safe sex Archive

Speak No Evil

Update March 16: Utah bans the ban! (Insert cheer). But it may not be over yet….  The past week was a lively one in the US, what with Utah busy banning sex education and determining a difficult future for their youth. Nothing like laying the groundwork for glory. This despite research that says sex education [...]

New Darling, New Delights – When Do You Bring Up Safe Sex?

My coworker Monique at Positive Women’s Network wrote a great piece about HIV disclosure a couple of weeks back. She’s been living with HIV for a long time, and while most of her friends know, it’s something else again when she has to think about telling someone she might have sex with. Her ethics are [...]

Sex- It’s all in the “Relationship”

I recently caught up with Cindy Masaro, whose work I blogged about last summer. Cindy’s a sexual health nurse and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. As part of her PhD studies, she’s researching how women connect with sex partners through technology- online dating sites, texting, chatting- and how these technologies could influence [...]

Robot Love and Sex Toys

I was a little wary of Googling it, because I wasn’t sure what might result but I did it anyway: “history of sex toys.” I was prompted by a radio story I heard on CBC Q about having sex with robots and a piece about manufacturing sex toys in China (the demand’s increasing at home [...]

Pregnancy Diary on Sex Ed Site: Awesome

So there I am cruising through articles to post on our Twitter feed, and I come across this one on Scarleteen (great sex education site aimed at folks 15-25, BTW). It’s called Pregnant & Posting: 10 Weeks. What a cool idea- posting about pregnancy on a site that’s about safe sex, contraception education, and healthy [...]

Safety’s Not Always at Home

In my work at Positive Women’s Network, one of the things we end up talking about a lot is violence against women. It’s a day to day reality of many of the women living with HIV that we support. Violence shapes many women’s lives, whether it’s historical, or current and ongoing. For some it influenced [...]

Are You Too Old For Sex Education?

While this piece is a few months old, its topic is fresh and troubling: a safe sex education session for adults over 60 was cancelled due to lack of interest. Given that those over 60 are still having lots of sex and enjoying it, it’s not like such a session isn’t necessary.  Big Little Wolf [...]

The Pervasive Myth of the Virgin Cure

I won’t start off with New Year’s resolutions or blasts of the same, as there are plenty of posts out there on the topic at the moment. All I have to say to the general theme is “Love your body NOW.”  I will go on about a recent read, though. Ami McKay’s The Virgin Cure [...]

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