Emily Setty ‘Sexting’ – the production and distribution of sexually suggestive images and messages using mobile phones and other technological devices [...]
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Category "2016"
Same-sex partner abuse: a look at data from UK police forces
Kate Butterworth Collecting statistics on partner abuse within same-sex relationships is notoriously difficult. The invisibility of the population allied to people’s [...]
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‘Free to Play at Last’: The Discovery of Play by Gay Men Attending Retreats
William Potter Mention the notion of ‘adult play’ and the response will frequently be a raised eyebrow, or possibly more brazen [...]
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The Homosocial Tendencies of Elite Male Athletes
M. F. Ogilvie I wake up in the morning to the smell of breakfast and the sound of my housemates chatting [...]
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FOCUS: Transparency and the Open Society
Roger Taylor Are people being driven to suicide by the stress of compulsory medical tests for sickness benefits? Are police in [...]
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Viewpoint: Post-democracy, post Brexit – an interview with Colin Crouch
Mark Carrigan, interviewer It's been over fifteen years since you first offered your analysis of post-democracy. What is post-democracy and has [...]
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On the Frontline: Addicted
Laurel Richardson October 2002 My Dairy Queen (DQ) ice cream parlor is a mile from my home in Worthington--a suburb of Columbus, [...]
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Policy Briefing: Scientific evidence in referendum campaigns – politicisation or enrichment?
Caroline Schlaufer The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated by [...]
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Where you live can kill you
Clare Bambra In 1842, the English social reformer Edwin Chadwick documented a 30-year discrepancy between the life expectancy of men in [...]
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Farewell to TINA? Inside the UK’s Alternative Finance Movement
Mark Davis New research investigates the potential for social change in reconnecting our money with our morality and recommends that we [...]
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