In the past few years, Boston has had over 4800 reported cases of chlamydia each year. Most of these cases involved people between the ages of 15 and 24. As an effort to stop this outbreak, the Boston Public Health Commission has started a sexual health education program targeting middle school students. Chlamydia is hard
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Qpid.me (pronounced Cupid Me) is an app that lets users obtain, store, and privately share their STD and HIV test results. Their goal is to make it easier for sexual partners to honestly answer sexual relationship questions like “have you been tested?”. It promotes openness and safety, and is available to anyone 13 and older.
Happy Holidays from Thump Team!
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Dec 21
Holiday cheers and warmest wishes from our family to yours this holiday season and throughout the coming year.
The Evolution of Sex Ed
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Dec 17
Burt defined sex education as the study of the characteristics of beings; a male and female. Such distinguishing qualities make up a person’s sexuality. Sexuality is an important part of the life of a human being and almost all people, children included, are curious about it. People find it intriguing; exiting… it’s a core part
Kill the Gays
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Dec 05
”And now Nineteen persons having been hang’d, and one prest to death, and Eight more condemned, in all Twenty and Eight, of which above a third part were Members of some of the Churches of N. England, and more than half of them of a good Conversation in general, and not one clear’d; about Fifty
Don’t mess with the official condom of the 2012 London Summer Olympics. That’s essentially the message being sent by LOCOG, the organizing committee of these games, after a bucket of unauthorized condoms was discovered in the Olympic Village. Condom-gate came to light when Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan posted a photo of the bucket on
The Olympics: Queuing and Sex
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Jul 09
Organisers have arranged for a record 150,000 free condoms to be packed into dispensers around Games’ venues this year, which is 50,000 more than Beijing Olympics, it has been revealed. Women’s football goalkeeper Hope Solo, who won gold with the US team in China, reckons that randy athletes will turn London 2012 into the Sex
Ever wonder what it would be like to sleep with a mean film director, a socialite or the guy who does voice-over in movie trailers, or perhaps with one of your Facebook friends? As part of a new safe-sex initiative, the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI) on Tuesday launched an app called Provligget,
Lauren Odes, Former Native Intimates Employee, Claims She Was Fired Over ‘Too Hot’ Appearance
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May 22
Lingerie maker ‘Native Intimates’ recently fired Lauren Odes, a former data entry worker, who claims she got canned by her Orthodox Jewish bosses for having breasts that were too large. Odes said “When I was first told that I was too hot and that my breasts were too large, I was shocked. I thought that
A graphic, unflinching look at the delicate interplay of desire, money and power among European women sex tourists and African gigolos hit the screen yesterday in the Cannes contender “Paradise: Love.” Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, who scandalised cinema’s top international showcase five years ago with another take on rich and poor and the sex trade, “Import/Export”,
