Robot hookers —the future of sex tourism? ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“”Robot sex is safer sex, free from the constraints, precautions and uncertainties of the real deal,” wrote Victoria University management professor and futurist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars in their paper, Robots, Men And Sex Tourism, as quoted on Stuff.co.nz.”
Can TheyFit's 95 Condom Sizes Make Sex Better? ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“Meet Joe Nelson, a former Goldman Sachs trader who believes custom-fitted condoms are the key to making safe sex more pleasurable. “
Dolphins Engage In Bisexuality And Even Homosexuality: Study ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“As Discovery News is reporting, research scientists at the University of Massachusetts studied more than 120 bottlenose dolphins in western Australia, concluding that the males were “found to engage in extensive bisexuality, combined with periods of exclusive homosexuality.” Furthermore, male dolphin pairs, and even trios, cooperate to sequester and herd individual females during the mating season. “
Bisexual Invisibility Has Dangerous Consequences ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“I believe sexuality, as a continuum with no easy boxes to fit into, is the most logical explanation for the variations we see in human sexuality. Labels are vile and unrealistic to me, an attempt to satisfy others’ need for simplicity when life just isn’t so.”
Queer to the Core ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“Gay punk comes out with a vengeance. An oral history of the movement that changed the world (whether you knew it or not).”
UCLA-engineered stem cells seek out and kill HIV in living organisms ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“The study, published April 12 in the journal PLoS Pathogens, demonstrates for the first time that engineering stem cells to form immune cells that target HIV is effective in suppressing the virus in living tissues in an animal model, said lead investigator Scott G. Kitchen, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute. “
Slavoj Zizek--Hegel on Marriage ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“The limitation of Hegel’s notion of sexuality is clearly discernible in his theory of marriage (from his Philosophy of Right), which nonetheless deserves a close reading: beneath the surface of the standard bourgeois notion of marriage lurk many unsettling implications. “
Filipino beauty says no to trans in Miss Universe ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“Gay group calls on 90s Miss Universe runner-up Miriam Quiambao to join her trans ‘sisters’ after opposing pageant’s policy change”
Is Some Homophobia Self-Phobia? ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates.”
California state colleges weigh asking students about sexual orientation ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“The voluntary poll would come in response to a law that seeks to gauge the size of LGBT populations and whether they are being adequately served. But some question how the data would be used.”
Philippines' LGBT community strives to break stereotypes ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“The LGBT community sees the victory of these student leaders as a milestone that will help open doors for the community into the national political arena come midterm elections in 2013.”
Some Years Before 1963 ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution’
Porn Films: Best Way to Promote Safe Sex Among Gay Men? ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“University of Minnesota psychologist and sexual health researcher B.R. Simon Rosser and his colleagues note in a January 2012 article in AIDS Behavior that pornography is a major source of sexual information on the “mechanics” of sex, especially anal intercourse. Although it appears to negatively affect some young men’s body image — all those sculpted bodies on the screen can be intimidating as well as stimulating — porn also seems to play a role in setting behavioral expectations.”
Sex, gender and toilets ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“It is for this reason that when we built the new wing of the UP Center for Women’s Studies, I requested that the toilet in that wing be gender-fair. “
Are Straight People Born That Way? ~ Akei | Gender & Sexuality
“The best scientific argument we have for the innateness of straightness is that evolution would favor it. But a poll of sexologists raises some interesting questions about arousal.”