Australian women to get home self tests for chlamydia and gonorrhoea – but experts urge caution
People with genital or pelvic symptoms may feel a sense of false reassurance with a negative result, sexual health expert warns
Everything you ever wanted to know about vaginas … but were too afraid to Google
Should you wash your vagina? Can a tampon get lost in one? And does having sex make you looser? Experts in all things ‘down there’ separate fact from fiction
The ‘huge disadvantage’ women behind femtech phenomenon face
Despite growing demand for female health solutions, businesses are coming up against entrenched prejudice
Chanel Contos teams up with Tinder on ‘crucial’ Australian consent course, but some have doubts
Contos and peak body The Women’s Services Network hope it will introduce ‘nuances of consent’ to dating app users, but other advocates say Tinder should not receive ‘props for the basics’
Push to improve syphilis testing in US as disease makes dramatic comeback
Cases have risen 80% in the last five years, and the US now has the highest syphilis rates since 1950
Sex ed Paraguay-style: condoms are unsafe, silence on LGBTQ+ people
Country awash with teenage pregnancies to launch new school curriculum on sex – but is it worse than none at all?
Australia running low on HIV-prevention drug PrEP as experts warn users to plan ahead
TGA recently approved importation and supply of overseas-registered tablets to help ease the shortage
Young people’s health at risk from fall in condom use, warns WHO
International survey of 250,000 15-year-olds found nearly a third of them did not use a condom or the pill
Gonorrhoea getting more drug-resistant and ‘may become untreatable’
Rise in super-strength cases in England reaches highest level since records began, UKHSA says
When ‘sex’ only means penetration, of course there’s a huge orgasm gap between men and women
The things that happen with lips and tongues and hands are completely discounted in the latest misguided sex study, says host of The Second Circle podcast Franki Cookney