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Sexual health

October 2024

  • Closeup of woman's hands holding a tampon

    The ‘huge disadvantage’ women behind femtech phenomenon face

    Despite growing demand for female health solutions, businesses are coming up against entrenched prejudice

September 2024

  • Chanel Contos teams up with Tinder on ‘crucial’ Australian consent course, but some have doubts

  • A syringe and vials of penicillin used in the treatment of s<br>AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 14: A syringe and vials of penicillin used in the treatment of syphilis are displayed in a lab at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday, August 14, 2007. Syphilis cases are rising among gay and bisexual men as new drugs reduce the threat of AIDS, and doctors warn the outbreak may spread to the wider community. (Photo by Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    Push to improve syphilis testing in US as disease makes dramatic comeback

  • children in school make notes

    Sex ed Paraguay-style: condoms are unsafe, silence on LGBTQ+ people

  • Pills used for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV.

    Australia running low on HIV-prevention drug PrEP as experts warn users to plan ahead

August 2024

  • Arrangement of condoms in bright colors

    Young people’s health at risk from fall in condom use, warns WHO

    International survey of 250,000 15-year-olds found nearly a third of them did not use a condom or the pill
  • gonorrhoea cells up close.

    Gonorrhoea getting more drug-resistant and ‘may become untreatable’

    Rise in super-strength cases in England reaches highest level since records began, UKHSA says
  • Franki Cookney

    When ‘sex’ only means penetration, of course there’s a huge orgasm gap between men and women

    Franki Cookney
    The things that happen with lips and tongues and hands are completely discounted in the latest misguided sex study, says host of The Second Circle podcast Franki Cookney

July 2024

  • Close-up of male patient consulting with doctor

    STIs surge across Australia while resistance to antibiotic treatments ‘increasing rapidly’

  • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

    Fair Access
    Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

  • Lei and Abu travel to the US to freeze their eggs in the Guardian documentary, Frozen in Time, by Rongfei Guo

    Women's right to choose
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

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    The Guardian documentary
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • 20,000 female condoms, 200,000 male condoms, 10,000 dental dams: will Paris 2024 be the sexiest Olympics ever?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Ruth Westheimer obituary

  • Risk of serious injury as strangling during sex becomes normalised among young Australians

June 2024

  • A cabbage white caterpillar on a nasturtium flower. They’re keen on brassicas, says David Cordingley.

    Brief letters
    All cabbage whites great and small – oh lord, gardeners hate them all

  • A glass dish containing a pile of microplastics

    Microplastic discovery in penises raises erectile dysfunction questions

  • Diverse group of women in lingerie

    Pornography and social media driving rise in labia surgery, Australian report finds

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

April 2024

  • Person Holding Touch Screen Smartphone Device

    Worried about a bump on your date’s penis? There’s an app for that – but not everyone is convinced

    Company behind app says no personal information is collected but experts warn of ‘how easily’ data can be hacked
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