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What is sex and what is gender and what do these two things have to do with sexual literacy in America? Science has established the enormous variation that exists when it comes to genders, anatomies, sexualities and reproductive capacities, but American society still tries to label people according to very stringent definitions of male or female—and the results are often harmful. Why do we place such importance on gender, on notions of masculinity and femininity? And is there room for something more? Sexually literate approaches to sex and gender focus attention on the entire spectrum of variation and diversity, revealing a complicated and rich picture.

Zoot Suits hacen a el Hombre- y a la Mujer

Zoot Suits hacen a el Hombre- y a la Mujer

El 11 de Junio de 1943, en medio de las revueltas “Zoot Suit”, el Los Ángeles Times reporto que tres pandilleras “Zoot Suit” habían atacado a la señorita Betty Morgan, una mesera, cerca del túnel de la Calle Tres en el centro de Los Ángeles.

Hairy Marvels and Beastly Sex

Hairy Marvels and Beastly Sex

One afternoon in 1594, the scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi visited the home of a wealthy friend in Bologna in northern Italy. Among other visitors at the elegant home was Isabella Pallavicina, the Marchesa of Soragna. With the marchesa was Antonietta Gonzales, the young daughter of Petrus Gonzales. Like her father and like most of her sisters and

Zoot Suits Make the Man—and Woman

On June 11, 1943, in the midst of the Zoot Suit Riots, three “zoot suit gangsterettes” attacked Miss Betty Morgan, a waitress, near the Third Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles.

XX - Why?

Tell the IAAF to stay out of Caster Semenya's pants. Sign the XX-Why petition and tell them science and biology do not make-or unmake-a woman.

¿Que factores influyen en la salud sexual y reproductiva Latina?

¿Que factores influyen en la salud sexual y reproductiva Latina?

Hallazgos de un estudio que examina la salud sexual y reproductiva en Latinos

Bros Before Hos: College Fraternities and Sexual Exploitation

Bros Before Hos: College Fraternities and Sexual Exploitation

In the late 1980s the Florida News Herald reported that a Florida State University student had been gang raped by some fraternity brothers. Allegedly, the attackers painted the Greek letters of their house on her thighs, symbolically claiming her as they had also claimed her through sexual assault. In 2001 Dartmouth College's campus newspaper,

Money, Marriage, and the Economic Downturn: Are Marital Storms Ahead?

Money, Marriage, and the Economic Downturn: Are Marital Storms Ahead?

The nation’s recent economic woes have led Americans to question many aspects of their lives that, until recently, they likely took for granted. Can they afford their homes? Will they have a job next week, let alone a secure retirement? Will their personal relationships, and especially their marriages, withstand the new pressures that

Circuncisión masculina: ¿una alternativa para la prevención?

Circuncisión masculina: ¿una alternativa para la prevención?

Estudio sobre este procedimiento medico

Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

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

Roots of Change: NSRC overview of Transgender Global Dialogues

Roots of Change: NSRC overview of Transgender Global Dialogues

The rise of the Transgender movement since the early 1990s has brought into focus the needs and rights of a whole new category of people and the difficulties they face in being accepted by society. While no one knows for sure the number of people who are Transgender and precisely how the increasing visibility of this population is related to