Charlotte Rhian Jones In recent years the multibillion-dollar trans-national surrogacy industry was brought to global attention when an Australian couple abandoned [...]
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Doctor-patient relationships and ‘coming out’ in healthcare
Michael Toze When Steve (1), a gay man in his late 60s, discussed his GP practice with me, he described almost [...]
Read moreThe Social Life of Human Pups: A Socio-cultural approach
Liam Wignall Have you ever had the inclination to dress up as a dog and roll around on the floor? Or [...]
Read moreHIV, AIDS, and condoms in prisons
Janet Weston Despite living in a supposedly hyper sexualised society, we know very little about sex in prisons. In the US [...]
Read moreIranian Women’s Gendered Experiences: Structural discourse or individual agency?
Elham Amini Much past western feminist research emphasises the different structural discourses for constructing women’s sexuality and gender, particularly in relation [...]
Read moreHeteronormativity and LGBQ lives: the case of Italy
Valeria Quaglia What does it mean to be a lesbian, gay, or queer person in Italy today? Which paths can LGBQ [...]
Read moreYouth sexting: replacing abstinence with ethics
Emily Setty ‘Sexting’ – the production and distribution of sexually suggestive images and messages using mobile phones and other technological devices [...]
Read moreSame-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 [...]
Read more‘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 [...]
Read moreThe 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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