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Improving Contraceptive Counseling by Listening to Women’s Voices

Dr. Kristyn Brandi, Dr. Pooja Mehta & How to Avoid Pissing Off Your Dominatrix

Could the benefits of long-acting reversible contraceptives—and the way we as providers emphasize these benefits—be paradoxically limiting choices for women seeking to space or prevent pregnancy?

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How to Avoid Pissing Off Your Dominatrix

Andre Shakti

Trust me: You may want your dominatrix to play angry in a session, but you don’t want her to actually be angry.

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Transgender Legal Protections Could Be Repealed in Massachusetts Via Ballot Measure

Auditi Guha

An anti-trans referendum could scrap a Massachusetts law that prohibits discrimination in public places based on gender identity.

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#ICEOnTrial: Advocates Rally to Hold Federal Agency Accountable for Systemic Abuses

Tina Vasquez

"People have power and I want them to begin using it to hold their government accountable for the abuse it does to people like me," said one formerly detained asylum seeker.

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‘The Wonder Down Under’: A Refreshing Guide on Sexual Anatomy That We All Needed

Lorraine Berry

While reading the guide, I found myself wishing that I had possessed this book not only when I had been in my teens and first sexually active, but also as a mother.

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This Week in Sex: Grindr Reluctantly Agrees to Stop Giving Outside Companies Access to Users’ HIV Status

Martha Kempner

Elsewhere, gonorrhea is getting harder to treat, and, no, kids aren’t snorting condoms.

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California Democrats Want to Make ‘Conversion’ Therapy Consumer Fraud

Nicole Knight

"Courts have found that claims that sexual orientation change efforts are effective in changing an individual’s sexual orientation constitute unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business practices under state consumer protection laws."

Rhode Island Faith Leaders: Pass ‘Roe’ Protections Now

Auditi Guha

“The blessing of the Roe decision was that Roe recognized the moral agency of women. We cannot let that go away. We simply cannot allow women to become invisible again."

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High Risk, Few Resources: Bisexual Kids Lack Help When They Need It Most

Heron Greenesmith

Bisexual young people face intense bullying and harassment and report poorer mental health outcomes than gay, lesbian, or straight youth.

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New York Lawmakers Brush Aside Reproductive Rights—Again

Garin Marschall

The fact that these reproductive health proposals failed is, perhaps, not surprising to political insiders familiar with the dysfunction in Albany, but we should all be angry.

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