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Anatomy of an unsafe abortion
Dr. Jen Gunter, who is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician, writes a harrowing account of receiving a patient who has undergone an unsafe abortion, and is bleeding to death: On the gurney lay a...
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Will you be ours? Valentine's Day for the polyamorous
This Valentine's Day, enjoy a classic essay by Annalee Newitz about celebrating differently-defined love. (image: Shutterstock)
View ArticleFamily Restaurant, film for kids with gay / lesbian parents
Boing Boing pal and periodic guestblogger Andrea James sends word of a cool and worthy project she's doing, and raising funds for via Kickstarter: "Family Restaurant," a film for children whose moms...
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Science, sex, and your hands
Here's an interesting fact about sexual dimorphism: On average, if you were born a male, your hands are a little bit different from those of someone who was born a female. Most men have a pointer...
View ArticleMan gay after stroke
Lucy Wallis tells the story of a man whose personality changed after a stroke: "Chris Birch struggles to remember or identify with his old self. He used to be a 19-stone, beer-swilling, party-loving...
View ArticleAnderson Cooper: "I'm gay"
TV's first out news anchor Anderson Cooper explains why he's making it official: "It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some...
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LovePalz teledildonic sex toy
An early 1990s magazine called Future Sex was all about teledidonics - devices that allow people to have sex with each other even when they weren't close enough to have sex. But in the early 1990s,...
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Crime Against Nature: Beautifully illustrated children's book explores what...
This is a book about "doin' what comes naturally". Which is to say, sex. But what kind of sex? With whom? And to what purpose? At what point do things like gender expression, sex, reproduction, and...
View ArticleSerotonin found to influence sexual preference in mice
"When Yi Rao of Peking University in Beijing, China, and his colleagues genetically engineered female mice so that they could no longer make or respond to serotonin, it appeared to affect their...
View ArticleManning’s gender hell: Shades of gray in a black-and-white world
The widely-published image of Chelsea Manning, released in dithered grayscale by the Army, strikes me as an apt metaphor for the layers of meaning in this case. We all live under the Tyranny of the...
View ArticleComing soon: More than one data point on the transgender experience in the...
Part of the problem with the Chelsea Manning situation is that it's spawned a lot of not-terribly-well-informed discussion about the roles and experiences of transgendered people in the military....
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Report: Transgender people serve in US military at a rate double the general...
Amid much talk of Chelsea Manning's transitional status, this interesting factoid shared by Boing Boing pal Andrea James: a Williams Institute study says trans people serve in the US military at rates...
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Human development at the edge of sexual ambiguity
Image: Mopic via Shutterstock.com. "If you look carefully at the research, sexual diversity, on the level of genital appearance, hormones and chromosomes, is present and predictable in humans," writes...
View Article'Oddly Normal,' by John Schwartz: A family's struggle to help their teen son...
"You have to come home,” Jeanne said on the phone. Her voice was urgent, shaking. “Joe has taken a lot of pills.” Jeanne, my wife, had stepped into the house that late-spring afternoon to find our son...
View ArticleBisexual TV characters 'improving'
Casey Quinlan on the improving portrayal in TV drama of people who are neither straight nor gay: "The quantity isn’t there, to be sure. But the quality of bisexual television characters is, on the...
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Portraits of asexual people
Laia Abril Worth checking out: this photojournalism project about people who identify as asexual. (more…)
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NSFW survey shows what women want in porn
PornHub and RedTube's new survey shows that Southern ladies tend to love porn more than other American women, and women are more likely to enjoy porn with lesbians and gay men, regardless of the...
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Gay/questioning teens' pregnancy rates way higher than straight teens
A surprising survey by Teenwise Minnesota found that bisexual females were five times more likely to have been pregnant than straight females. Questioning and gay males were four times more likely...
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Orlando killer frequented Pulse nightclub, described as gay by ex-wife and...
Omar Mateen, perpetrator of America's deadliest civilian mass shooting, was a regular at the gay nightclub where he killed 49 people this weekend. His friends believe he is gay, his ex-wife told an...
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Straight people identifying as queer runs from ugly appropriation to...
Jenna Wortham wrote a fascinating article about the pros and cons of straight people identifying as queer. In the wild, this is often nothing more than an ugly appropriation. Ah, but the...
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