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AI
Using AI, this app may tell if you have an STI
An Australian app is showing promise in identifying infections in photos using artificial intelligence, amid a surge in people contracting STIs over the past year.
- by Mary Ward
Latest
Are tampons toxic? Here’s what you need to know
A study found traces of toxic metals in tampons. But what can this research really tell us about the millions of tampons sold every year?
- by Kate Aubusson
The common condition that can cause too much shame to be named
Incontinence affects everything from sex lives to sport participation and self-image. Yet research reveals it is rarely discussed and many go without treatment.
- by Wendy Tuohy
‘My word against his’: Colossal system failure in sexual assault cases
Samantha was attacked by a man she thought was her friend. Fear stopped her pursuing justice. Sadly, she’s far from alone.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
Oral contraceptive soon available over the counter in new WA trial
Those annoying, expensively frequent visits to the doctor may soon be a thing of the past now that WA is catching up with other states when it comes to the Pill.
- by Claire Ottaviano
The five exercises you should do to improve your sex life
If you want satisfying sex, you’ll likely benefit from moving your body outside the bedroom.
- by Danielle Friedman
Opinion
Gender
Can trans women and biological women share an identity? This case may provide an answer
Identity is fundamental to what it is to be human. The Tickle v Giggle case is exploring whether a trans woman can occupy the same space as someone born female.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Analysis
Law
Eight women, one man: Casual encounters and the murky issue of consent
Eleven charges of rape and sexual assault over a 4½-year period and at the heart of every one, the looming question; did the women involved consent to those encounters?
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Sex is back for the Olympics in the city of love
After intimacy was banned during the COVID-affected Tokyo Olympics, organisers in Paris will provide 300,000 condoms in the athletes’ village.
- by Billie Eder
What this woman went through at 16 was awful. Now it’s an award-winning film
Molly Manning Walker’s new film How To Have Sex sprang from a single memory from her years clubbing in the Mediterranean.
- by Karl Quinn
Magic mushrooms ‘can improve sex lives in struggling relationships’, study finds
Magic mushrooms, LSD and other psychedelic drugs increase sexual function and may be able to save struggling relationships, a new study suggests.
- by Joe Pinkstone