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We live in a world in which the pharmaceutical industry produces and markets drugs, not merely to treat disease and restore health, but increasingly for purposes of enhancement: simply to make life better. One only need think of the lucrative markets in sexual and mood-enhancing pharmaceuticals, which surely blur the distinction between the

Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

“It doesn’t look right,” said forty-two-year-old Carla Westman*. “Like I’m uneven, like one side is larger than the other and as I’ve gotten older, I think one side is stretching. Before I could close my legs and you couldn’t see anything but now one side peeks through just a tiny bit more than the other, and that just bothers

Vulnerable to H.I.V., Resistant to Labels

MEXICO CITY — The 29-year-old is not gay. He wants that known. He did have sex with a man once, but that was the result of loneliness and his hormones’ being in overdrive, he said, not because of any attraction to men. He suspects that the one encounter was responsible for giving him the virus that causes AIDS. But he is not gay no matter

Getting it on with . . . Ethan Suniewick

Doctors need education on how to treat their trans patients. Ethan Suniewick has just the antidote: TRANSforming Healthcare. His video short screened at Frameline's 2008 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and has been used as a training tool for physicians nationwide.

Circumcision

I hate most pork. Roast it, glaze it, do what you will, pig rarely sings to me like a dead chicken does. But pass me a strip of bacon and I’ll promise you the world. Seventeen years of Hebrew day school can only accomplish so much. Welcome to modern day Jewery; not so much a state of being as it is a state of mind. Or as the ultra orthodox

Designing Babies

We are rapidly entering the era of “reprogenetic” medicine. This combines new technologies of gene identification with assisted reproductive technologies like IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to permit parents to select the genetic traits of their children. Within the past two years Britain’s leading genetic regulatory body,

Are You Kidding?

Tubal ligation procedures denied to young women who don't want children

Working It Out

When I was in high school, before Donna Summer even had a record deal, my friends and I wandered through our existence reading, writing, and painting to the sounds of Donovan and Leonard Cohen. We were longhair intellectuals. Fearless and buoyed by our own self-righteousness, we fought to maneuver funds from new gymnasium equipment to improve

The Right to Pleasure

There’s nothing wrong with me. I want to do this, I’m choosing to do this, and I don’t mind doing this exchange, money for sex. I prefer to do that than have my situation therapized. That was all Dr. Russell Shuttleworth needed to hear before taking his long-time friend and employer—a thirty-three-year old man living with Cerebral

M?dos de Barrera Cervical: Expandiendo las Opciones de la Mujer para la Prevenci?e Enfermedades Sexuales como el VIH

Métodos de Barrera Cervical: Expandiendo las Opciones de la Mujer para la Prevención de Enfermedades Sexuales como el VIH

Investigadores ven al diafragma como una manera de prevenir el VIH y embarazos a la vez.

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