
With three goals in mind — to score a political point, to convey a safe-sex message and to make money — a South African producer has made that nation’s first all-black pornographic movie.
This originally posted in 2009 and is still one of my favorite safe sex commercials. We cringe at the thought of eating something off the ground. Why don't we cringe in the same way at the thought of unprotected sex?
Stay informed, Stay safe, Get tested.

One lesson I've learned: When people feel repressed -- when they feel sex is shameful -- an underworld of sexual activity bubbles below the surface of society.

Users call them poppers: a class of chemicals called alkyl nitrites that can be inhaled for a quick high, or to enhance sexual pleasure. Now doctors in France are warning that they can also cause eye damage and impaired vision. (New York Times)

A new sex study indicates unmarried boomers behave more recklessly than teens.
As far as sexual behavior goes, we may be worrying about the wrong people. The kids, it turns out, may be all right. It's the boomers who are being all, like, irresponsible and stuff. At least that's the finding of the largest nationally representative survey of the sexual behavior of Americans ever undertaken, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine on Oct. 4. (TIME)
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The full CDC report can be found HERE.
“This new CDC report makes it crystal clear that the teen birthrate is lower in states that provide students with comprehensive, evidence-based sex education. The report demonstrates that the surest way to reduce teenage pregnancy is to provide young people with comprehensive, medically accurate sex education, and doing so is especially urgent for African-American and Latino teens, who are getting pregnant more frequently than other young people. (Common Dreams)

Most women don’t have an orgasm from intercourse alone
You’ve heard me say it again and again… there is nothing “wrong” with you if you can’t have an orgasm from intercourse. It puts you squarely with 70% of women. And if you are someone who is able to have orgasms from a hand, a mouth or a vibrator, you don’t have a problem with orgasm! It just has to do with where your clitoris is positioned, the shape of his penis and how you initially learned how to have an orgasm. (The Medical Center for Female Sexuality)

A Hobart girl who was sold for sex last year when she was 12 years old and under state care is trying to sue the Tasmanian Government.
The Government has admitted that key agencies including the child protection office and the police failed the girl. (ABC News)
Sexually speaking, Americans are mixing it up a good deal more than they have in the past.
The first comprehensive snapshot of Americans' sexual activity in almost two decades suggests a social landscape changed by HIV and AIDS and by an increasingly open national conversation about sexual acts other than plain old intercourse.
"The sexual repertoire of Americans has sort of expanded," said Michael Reece, director of Indiana University's Center for Sexual Health Promotion and a leading author of the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, published in a special issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Though vaginal intercourse is hardly on its way out, the practice has declined as other sexual acts have gained ground. (LA Times)

One of the last taboos in sexual health is to be tackled by the BBC in an hour-long film presented by the film star Jaime Winstone.
The investigation tackles the link between oral sex and rising numbers of mouth and throat cancer cases among young Britons – described this weekend as "an emerging epidemic" by a Cancer Research UK expert. (The Guardian)

With three goals in mind — to score a political point, to convey a safe-sex message and to make money — a South African producer has made that nation’s first all-black pornographic movie.
In a departure from the norm for such films, the male cast members wear condoms. Also, the entire cast was tested for H.I.V. (New York Times)