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Happy 50th Birthday, Pill!
The Pill turned fifty years old this year and Time magazine has an incredible piece detailing our tumultuous, misunderstood relationship with it. If you read anything today, let this be it: It was the...
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The Pill, But For Dudes
A contraceptive for men is soon going to start trials at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, just in time for the celebration of 50th anniversary of the female contraceptive pill! Dr. Swerdloff, the director...
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Because We Always Need An Excuse
Remember when Dan Rather interviewed Bill Clinton in 2004 about his life and presidency for 60 Minutes? It almost perfectly summarizes everything that’s wrong with us as a species. “The central...
View ArticleChile Silently Consents to the Sterilization of HIV-Positive Women During Labor
Chilean non-governmental organizations are leveling a case against the Chilean government for failing to protect HIV-positive women against forced sterilization. The Inter American Human Rights...
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Female Sexuality: Dangerous or Simply Misclassified?
Any one of us could probably name at least one male sex aid, but what do we know about female sex aids? Not a whole lot. It doesn’t mean there are no female sex aids out there or in development. In...
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Does the AIDS Healthcare Foundation Oppose Funding Research into an AIDS/HIV...
Here at Sex and the 405, we have heard many rumors about the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) since we started reporting on their war on pornography, chief among them that they opposed research into...
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International AIDS Conference Returns to the US
The International AIDS Conference — a gathering of all those involved in working for the eradication and treatment of HIV, as well as policymakers and activists — is returning to the United States...
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Legionnaires’ Disease Kills Luxor Guest, AVN Expo Attendees May Have Been...
We just got a curious e-mail from Tod Hunter, an adult industry reporter and blogger, saying there have been “reports of Legionnaires’ Disease” at the Luxor in Las Vegas and that people attending...
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When You Go After Planned Parenthood, You Go After All of Us
We found this cruising through Google+. Lori Friedrich saw this comment on the Susan G. Komen Facebook page on Thursday, February 2. “I have crossed out her name, so trolls can’t go harass her over...
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Save The Pubic Lice! Or, Adventures In Lousy Reporting
Well, if anyone ever wondered why scientists hate to speak to people in the media, now we know for sure. Yesterday, Bloomberg ran a piece about pubic lice titled “Brazilian Bikini Waxes Make Crab Lice...
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