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Who should teach sex education?

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Today Helen and I have been involved in the UK Fertility Health Summit – Choice not chance .  We are part of the task force working on a project to include fertility awareness in sex education...

Today in the UK, a woman was sentenced for the crime of an abortion

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This is so sad.  I cannot believe we are in 2016. A 19 year old girl from Ireland “desperately tried to save up enough money to travel to England to have an abortion, but wasn’t able to. Left...

Teaching safer abortion techniques in India

6 years ago 0
Despite liberal abortion laws in India, which allow the procedure under almost any circumstances, there is no guarantee that services will be safe. About 9% of maternal deaths in India are from...

30 year old UK women gets free sterilisation

6 years ago 1
Holly Brockwell, a 30 year old UK woman, has won a four year battle to convince the UK Health Service to sterilise her.  She says she is adamant that she does not want children and does not want the...

The clitoring…

6 years ago 0
A ring celebrating the most fun part of the female anatomy: The Clitoring. Seriously cool and quite possibly raises even more eyebrows than the answer to what my job is. Find it...

The Turkish sex industry

6 years ago 0
In the UK there is a series on BBC TV called ‘Sex in Strange Places”.  The first episode reports on the 52 state run brothels in Turkey, half of which have recently been shut as the...

Syrian refugees turn to prostitution

6 years ago 0
For some Syrian refugees, the only way to feed their families is to work as prostitutes. In Lebanon, some of these women work in ‘supernight clubs’ where it is illegal for a Syrian women...

Male contraceptive pill – getting closer?

6 years ago 0
The female contraceptive pill has been around for 50 years. But what about a male pill?  It has been slow to developed as it is difficult to make men temporarily infertile. A team at the University...

Contraception for all?

6 years ago 0
Since the invention of the contraceptive pill, women have experienced sexual freedom.  We spend most of our lives trying not to get pregnant and a relatively short time trying to get pregnant.  But...

Toxic chemical in condoms and dummies

6 years ago 0
In February 2016, 24 experts from eight countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, to assess the carcinogenicity of seven industrial chemicals.  They...

Female condoms – does it empower women?

6 years ago 1
The advantage of condoms is that they do not just protect against pregnancy but they also protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The female condom is a long flexible polyurethane or...

Are you happy with your method of contraception?

6 years ago 2
This month Global Women are going to be discussing contraception. What method do you use and are you happy with it? Have you had any problems with previous methods? Do you think there is enough...

Sexpression – empowering young people to make decisions about sex

6 years ago 0
I am doing some work on sex and fertility education in schools and I wanted to share some information about a group in the UK – “Sexpression:UK is a student organisation that empowers...

How easy is it to watch porn?

6 years ago 0
Gone are the days when porn was on the top shelf of the newsagents and you had to go to a sex shop to by a porn video.  If you are sitting at your computer, type in any word slightly related to sex...

Sex education – time to educate

6 years ago 0
We need sex education more than ever now as our children can get easy access to porn.  If they have access online, they are a click away from explicit images and videos.  They can easily begin to...

The American teenage porn industry

6 years ago 1
I have just watched the most disturbing documentary on Netflix – Hot Girls Wanted.   It is about the very sad teenage amateur porn industry in the USA. More people visit porn each month than...

Pope Francis says that contraception can be acceptable by women at risk of contracting the Zika virus

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Image credit http://www.bbc.com Read More   http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35608324 WHO declares Zika outbreak to be a global emergency Pregnant women from Latin America begging for abortion pills 1...

Pregnant women from Latin America begging for abortion pills

6 years ago 1
Thousands of pregnant women from countries in South America heavily affected by the Zika virus (which has been linked to microencephaly in the fetus) have been sending emails to a Canadian health...

Can you name your private parts?

6 years ago 1
I have been marking my students exam papers on female anatomy.  They have to label a diagram similar to the one on the right. The wrong words are often used to describe the female genitals.   Some...

I’ve seen enough genitals to know we are all truly unique

6 years ago 2
Stories of a sexual health nurse. One of the most startling changes of the past decade is how much porn appears to have affected attitudes and practices. Ten years ago, it was rare to see women with...
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Menopause and your menstrual cycle

3 years ago 0
From puberty to the menopause, most of our lives will be governed by our monthly cycles of periods, ovulation and often premenstrual tension. After the menopause we are free of our menstrual...

Female genital mutilation – more countries are...

4 years ago 0
FGM comprises all procedures that involve partial or complete removal of the external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non medical reasons (WHO).  It is also...
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