There has been something of a moral panic around sexting – but research suggests that it can create safe, empowering spaces for young people exploring their sexuality.
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The damaging polarisation around queer issues in Australian politics is out of step with community sentiment.
Many babies are born with a genetic variant that can result in the child being neither a typical boy or girl. There has been considerable debate about whether the child should be treated.
About 80% of students experience some kind of gender-based bullying in their primary and high school years. But research shows that teachers often fail to intervene or are not equipped to deal with it.
South Africa’s foremost contemporary dance festival is celebrating its 28th birthday in 2016. It has remained relevant, vital and – despite the format’s esoteric nature – hugely popular.
A recent onslaught against gays and lesbians in Indonesia shows a fresh wave of moral panic over homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
Safe Schools Coalition has been the focus of hot debate, but there is little evidence to support the anxieties around its mission.
Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are out of touch with social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people understand their own sexual and gender identities.
What is often overlooked in discussions about the sexual appeal of breasts is that they have not always been regarded as irresistibly attractive in all points in history and across all cultures.
Young people need to learn how to discuss, negotiate and articulate their own sexual desires and boundaries, and to respect those of others.
Sexuality is proving a destructive issue for the church.
There was a time when virginity was a disease, and sex (preferably marital) was the only lasting solution.
A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
Surveys of sexual practice conducted between 1921 and 1995 found that women tend not to have orgasms during penile-vaginal sex. And yet men’s and women’s magazines continue to offer ‘lessons’.
Should opposite-sex couples be allowed to enter civil partnerships? Many same-sex couples already in one think so.
The Anglo-Saxons can teach us plenty about sex and the labels we assign to ourselves today.
The stash of hidden magazines you might remember from your youth is vastly different from the sexually explicit content children are exposed to today.
Germaine Greer’s comments that “post-operative transgender men are not women” have provoked outcry from transgender activists. So let’s have a meaningful discussion about gender, sex and the complex relationship between the two.
Men might not wear purity rings, but some are pledging abstinence, too.
Magda Szubanski’s engaging debut memoir, Reckoning, is an exercise in precisely that: reconciling the past. It is also a celebration of the life and career of one of our greatest comedians.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Fellow, Division of Health Research and Social Work, Lancaster University; La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, The University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Professeur d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lorraine
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate professor Sexualities and Genders / Sociology, Western Sydney University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, University of Warwick
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of Leicester
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Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa