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Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

“It doesn’t look right,” said forty-two-year-old Carla Westman*. “Like I’m uneven, like one side is larger than the other and as I’ve gotten older, I think one side is stretching. Before I could close my legs and you couldn’t see anything but now one side peeks through just a tiny bit more than the

Thoughts on Summer Institute 2007

Intersections between race, gender, religion, class, and sexuality.

Honeytrap Lies and Women Spies

From Mata Hari to Camille in 'Quantum of Solace,' the female agent has been depicted as tough and beautiful. Is she symbolic of the demands on women today?

Caveman Mystique

Pop-Darwinism offers men a way to think about their sexuality. More proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Friday Night Live

Remember Baby Jessica, the little girl who fell down a well in West Texas in the fall of 1987? That was in Midland, home of George and Laura Bush. Midland also happens to be the more developed, more sophisticated big sister to my hometown of Odessa, separated by just fifteen miles, down a very dusty and very empty highway. Shortly after Jessica’s

Getting It on With . . . Trevor Hoppe

Trevor Hoppe—gay men's health activist and founder of BeyondMasculinity.com—gives the 411 on condoms, Michael Phelps, and sissy-dom in San Francisco.

Vulnerable to H.I.V., Resistant to Labels

MEXICO CITY — The 29-year-old is not gay. He wants that known. He did have sex with a man once, but that was the result of loneliness and his hormones’ being in overdrive, he said, not because of any attraction to men. He suspects that the one encounter was responsible for giving him the virus that causes AIDS. But he is not gay

Reflexiones de una adolescente virgen

Siempre me he preguntado porque mi mamá se molesta cuando le digo que no me interesa seguir conservando esa telita que confirma que no soy activa sexualmente. Es que acaso piensa que estamos en el siglo XIX y que si no sigo teniendo la bendita telita, nadie querrá casarse conmigo?Necesito esa tela para ser feliz? Lo que ignora mi madre es

Las 10 Dudas Sexuales M?Frecuentes de Adolescentes

Las 10 Dudas Sexuales Más Frecuentes de Adolescentes

Cada vez son más las adolescentes que viven embarazos no deseados, debido principalmente a falta de información en materia sexual; las consecuencias en alto porcentaje son graves, pues puede ponerse en riesgo la salud (incluyendo la mental) de madre, producto o ambos. ¿Cómo prevenir problemas?En mayo del 2004 el Organismo Nacional de Mujeres

Growing Up Sexually

My first kiss was during a game of spin the bottle in the basement of a friend’s house. I was in seventh grade and in that one night I kissed four boys. After this event, where a number of my friends had lost their kissing virginity, I remember exchanging incredulous remarks with them: “How did we live before this?”

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