- Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
Parents play a vital role in educating young people about sex, sexuality and pornography. But where do you start?
Current online safety rules are focused on removing harmful content, not on supporting health promotion.
Most current safety initiatives focus on responding to online-enabled harm, not prevention.
Draft rules to restrict ‘age-inappropriate content’ may also affect essential information about sex and sexual health.
Between allowing more “free speech” and removing official fact-checking, Meta’s platforms risk becoming more hostile to public health organisations.
Young LGBTQI+ people are much less likely to play sport than the broader population, new Australian research has revealed.
A recent government roundtable proposed stricter profile verification conditions as a response to safety concerns on dating apps. But research suggests users want something else.
Granting police access to Tinder users’ information is problematic for many reasons (even if the intent is to keep people safe).
App users recognise dating apps have some risks but they’ve developed a range of strategies to help them feel safer and to better negotiate consent and safe sex.
In order to reach younger audiences, social media apps must get past the gatekeepers of preteen online engagement: the parents.
Australian couples are having sex less often than a decade ago, the latest national survey of sexual activity reveals. People in heterosexual relationships have sex an average of 1.4 times per week, down…
Last week, the Adult Video News (AVN) Media Network opened pre-nominations for the 2014 AVN Awards, known as the “Oscars of Adult”, and announced the inclusion of two new categories: the best safe sex…
I was recently approached by a young journalist, who asked for my comments on the Feminist Porn Awards. In the course of the interview, she asked if I thought feminists should watch porn. I replied that…
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