Intermezzo: Key Elements for a “Perfect Brothel”

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Last year Middle England met the sex trade head-on when the Hampshire WI emerged as an unlikely champion of the reform of prostitution laws and members Jean Johnson and Shirley Landels led their 7,000-strong membership to advocate the legalisation of brothels in Britain. Now Channel 4 investigative  journalist Nicky Taylor joins ...

Sex, HIV and Condom use amongst Gay Men in the UK

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Click to Enlarge"][/caption]Some interesting results are coming out of the 2006 Gay Men's Sex survey completed by more than 12,000 men in the UK. Roger Pebody at Aidsmap provides an outline of the results presented in this 2008 report but amongst this mine of information there is ...

HIV Positive Children Discriminated against in School

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

There is a country where HIV-positive children are being turned away and excluded from primary and secondary schools. Parents of children as young as four were told by head teachers that teachers, other parents, school personnel and even dinner ladies would have to be told of the children's medical status. Guess in ...

Recognizing the diversity of LGBT people

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Last Saturday London Pride was an opportunity to really appreciate the diversity of the LGBT people. All were represented and if there was a need to prove that your imaginary “gay” may not fit the picture some have in mind. Here it is. [email_link] No related posts.

The unteachables: English pupils vs. lab’s marmosets

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

The front page of The Guardian online today runs a story about Chris Parry, the chief executive of the Independent Schools Council next to a series of articles about animal research and in particular the use of monkeys and apes in experiments aiming at understanding the basic neural architecture of ...