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Sexual health

July 2024

  • Hulu Panel - Winter TCA 2019<br>PASADENA, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Dr Ruth (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Hulu)

    Ruth Westheimer obituary

  • Close up of a woman's naked neck with her head turned away.

    Risk of serious injury as strangling during sex becomes normalised among young Australians

June 2024

  • A cabbage white caterpillar on a nasturtium flower. They’re keen on brassicas, says David Cordingley.

    Brief letters
    All cabbage whites great and small – oh lord, gardeners hate them all

  • A glass dish containing a pile of microplastics

    Microplastic discovery in penises raises erectile dysfunction questions

  • Diverse group of women in lingerie

    Pornography and social media driving rise in labia surgery, Australian report finds

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

April 2024

  • Person Holding Touch Screen Smartphone Device

    Worried about a bump on your date’s penis? There’s an app for that – but not everyone is convinced

    Company behind app says no personal information is collected but experts warn of ‘how easily’ data can be hacked

March 2024

  • Illustration by Observer Design/Freepik of a couple turned away from each other in bed with the crack of a broken heart down the middle

    ‘It feels like we’ve been lobotomised’: the possible sexual consequences of SSRIs

    Long-term sexual dysfunction is a side-effect for some patients who take these widely prescribed antidepressants, and can leave sufferers devastated

February 2024

  • Linda Papadopoulos

    Child-on-child abuse is increasing in the UK, but criminalising young people will only do more damage

    Linda Papadopoulos
  • Computer illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria

    Hospital admissions for easily treatable STIs rise amid funding cuts in England

January 2024

  • A pharmacist at work

    Put morning-after pill on general sale to give UK women full control, experts say

  • Colonies of gonorrhoea bacteria in a petri dish

    Gonorrhoea found to be on rise in nearly every council area in England and Wales

December 2023

  • A hand taking a pill with a male gender symbol on top.

    Why is Australia still waiting for a male contraceptive pill?

    Sixty years after ‘the father of the pill’ predicted a male version would come, vasectomies and condoms remain the only contraceptive options for men

November 2023

  • International Space Station

    Deep space astronauts may be prone to erectile dysfunction, study finds

  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria

    Tampon that tests for STIs created by British startup

October 2023

  • Composite illustration of a woman looking tearful

    Sexual healing
    Will my genital herpes mean I never have sex again?

    I tell men about my condition and they never stick around. I don’t know what to do
  • Mothers carrying children and waiting at a rural health clinic

    Climate action must focus on women’s health

    Letter: Christina Chilimba on how extreme weather events such as Cyclone Freddy in Malawi can affect the health and rights of women and girls
  • Four African women with small babies wait in a tent

    Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

    Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds

September 2023

  • Assorted contraceptives

    Eva wanted the morning-after pill after a sexual assault. Confronting pharmacy questions left her ‘frustrated’

  • Feet of a couple in bed

    Study provides new insights into British people’s sex lives as they age

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