TONIGHT! We pay homage to Articles of Interest at Get You a Babe Who Can Do Both, the show that combines TEDx style talks and burlesque! Doboth.eventbrite.com

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"87% saying they had been the target of at least one form of sexual harassment and 40% reporting they had been the target of at least one form of sexual assault. For the study, sexual misconduct was broken into three categories: harassment, assault and rape." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

"xAI reportedly updated its Grok artificial intelligence tool last month to allow image editing. Users on the social media platform X, which is connected to the tool, began using Grok to remove clothing in pictures of women and children." www.independent.com/2026/01/17/c...

"The department’s Office for Civil Rights was gutted in Trump’s mass layoffs last year, leaving half as many lawyers to investigate complaints of discrimination based on race, sex or disability in schools. Those who remain face a backlog of > 25,000 cases." www.nbcsandiego.com/news/nationa...

"Before the war, there was a wide range of products available to prevent pregnancy and infection. What we see during World War II is a narrowing of that market, where condoms gradually came to be framed as the most effective and responsible choice." www.news-medical.net/news/2026011...

"By analysing data from more than 67,000 adults aged 20 to 84, they discovered that men's libidos continued to increase until their early 40s, beginning a gradual decline in the years after." www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

"The proposal would expand Iowa’s existing ban on instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity — currently limited to kindergarten through sixth grade — to include grades seven through 12." www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

“I mean, I do have a kid, but what I’ve done in the past, who I’ve been with, men, women… To me, what was important was that this felt like an opportunity to tell a story about a subculture I hadn’t seen portrayed this way—with so much authenticity.” www.vogue.com/article/lets...

"some mental health professionals have been over-diagnosing sexual compulsivity based on their own ideas of what they deem “too much sex”, “unhealthy”, or “sex addiction” for decades, contributing to the confusion." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talk...

"The English Collective of Prostitutes, a grassroots organisation of sex workers, has seen a 33% increase in calls to their helpline during the last six months, mainly related to women starting or restarting sex work due to the increased cost of living.." www.independent.co.uk/news/sex-wor...

“The Internet developed from a military-industrial complex so it’s no wonder that it has a fraught relationship with sexuality,” Seu explains. “A clear through line between the military and sex is power.” hyperallergic.com/the-internet...

It's so weird who actually experiences consequences and who doesn't. Consensual engagement of a compensated professional? Career: nuked. www.avclub.com/daniel-stern...

We're one week away from the Get You a Babe Who Can Do Both (the show that combines TEDx talks and burlesque) homage to @trufelman.bsky.social and the Articles of Interest podcast! Catch talks about plastic in clothes, Kawaii style, corset myths, and fashion for butts! doboth.eventbrite.com

Just two blocks from the women's sports bar Marsha's! There's looking like a real Lesberhood about to happen on South St! www.phillyvoice.com/philly-lesbi...

There’s no reforming this. There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this

"What the ancient evidence tells us is that these people held positions of power because of their gender ambiguity, not despite it." theconversation.com/not-just-eun...

"Of the 20 or so mammal species that have been closely studied over long periods, same-sex behaviour has been seen in 80 per cent." www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

"Hwang said she signed an NDA in 2019, as part of a settlement reached in the case, and that she felt silenced by it years later and had suffered career consequences as a result." symphony.org/vancouver-sy...

What is a doula? Some people see doulas as luxury add-ons or “birth hippies,” fringe figures in labor and delivery. Timberly Washington, a medical student in Alabama who trained as a doula, breaks down what they do and their importance in our communities.

"If we are serious about protecting children from abuse, rage cannot be where we stop. We must do the hard, uncomfortable work required to protect children by talking more openly about child sexual abuse & by bringing prevention to the forefront of the conversation." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

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I'm gonna be on the expert panel after this film viewing! events.humanitix.com/lady-parts

"Results regarding anatomical knowledge revealed substantial gaps in understanding. The data showed that roughly 74% of the participants possessed a low or average level of knowledge about female genitalia. Misconceptions were particularly common re the clitoris." www.psypost.org/new-study-ex...

"Overfunctioning is one of the most socially rewarded relationship patterns. It usually manifests as being “low maintenance,” having the responsibility to anticipate & cater to everyone’s needs, absorbing emotional slack or smoothing over conflict before it surfaces." www.forbes.com/sites/traver...

"According to new recommendations released Monday by the Health Resources and Services Administration (part of the Health and Human Services Department), women ages 30 to 65 with an average risk of cervical cancer can opt for a self-administered HPV test." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Imagine being such a heinious unlikeable fucking dork that you narc on the sex toy store for selling chest binders. www.inquirer.com/health/passi...

"Warmth, sweat and friction around the vulva create a greenhouse effect that favors yeast and bacterial overgrowth" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/h...

"1 in 6 adults currently in relationships says there is someone in their life they would leave their partner for if that person showed romantic interest. Not a hypothetical stranger. An actual person they already know." www.vice.com/en/article/h...

"Nonbinary is an umbrella term used to describe individuals who experience a gender identity that is neither exclusively woman nor man or is between or beyond both genders." www.verywellmind.com/what-does-it...

"92.3 percent of convenience stores sold pornographic magazines. Later, the rise of moe aesthetics in anime and manga further blurred the line between entertainment and eroticism. This is particularly true in the rise of “lolicon” content" globalvoices.org/2025/12/29/j...

“When I do an exam, I want to give them back the control that’s been taken from them,” she said. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

"Yet Uber has left many drivers with records of complaints on the road — until passengers accused them of serious sexual assault ... That’s despite a company policy that explicitly prohibits sexual assault and sexual misconduct." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/b...

"Neptunic is a relatively new sexuality term that is used to describe when a person is attracted to neutral non-binary individuals, feminine-aligned non-binary people and women. But they are not attracted to men. Another term for this is nomascsexual." www.tyla.com/life/sex-and...

"These changes speak to the growing awareness that sexuality is complex. If anything, it would be surprising if people were never sexually curious about people of their own sex or gender, or if attraction worked in neat and predictable ways.” diva-magazine.com/2025/12/29/t...

"Secretary Kennedy cannot unilaterally change medical standards by posting a document online, and no one should lose access to medically necessary health care because their federal government tried to interfere in decisions that belong in doctors' offices," www.npr.org/2025/12/24/g...

"As Jonathan Beier, an associate director with Acacia Center for Justice's unaccompanied children program, told Snopes in January 2025, "Children who were never 'missing' shouldn't be described as having been 'found.'"" www.snopes.com/news/2025/12...

"NSW's 2022 consent laws have been used to prosecute non-payment of sex workers as a sexual offence, with one of the first convictions under the changed laws." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

"These were beautiful pictures, I'm not ashamed of the pictures, I'm ashamed of the way that they were used against me by someone who I don't know," said Madelaine. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Embarking on a career in sex work was exactly what Prescott needed: she had been sexualised throughout her childhood, in ways that were vastly out of her control. Others profited, she didn’t." www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

"The 70-minute solo performance is a narrative sprint through 10,000 years of sex worker history as it has manifested globally, dating back as early as ancient Mesopotamia." www.kqed.org/arts/1398496...

Shein sex doll scandal. Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex. DHS wants to make some immigrants take a DNA sex test. What is sexual synesthesia? and much, much more! www.drtimaree.com/blog/lesbian...

"Though this context has been lost in the meme’s ascent to Internet stardom, historicizing this relationship between sexuality and service work reveals a vexed history of trans exclusion alongside and within gay labor advocacy." www.autostraddle.com/a-short-hist...

"She didn’t feel tricked, but she did candidly say that her expectations were shaped by social posts from sexfluencers who omitted the downsides of adult content creation." www.riverfronttimes.com/onlyfans-cre...

"Trans people are criminalized under both sharia & civil law. Trans women can be arrested for “posing as woman” & subjected to jail, fines, or religious “counseling.” They are denied basic rights, excluded from jobs, & often humiliated or abused for their identities." www.sapiens.org/culture/tran...

"Gurule’s memoir is more scalpel than slogan. It cuts through the hazy morality plays often assigned to sex work and instead lays bare the brutal calculations poor women must make in a country that criminalizes poverty and romanticizes “choice.”" brooklynrail.org/2025/12/book...

Wednesday is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers lamag.com/activism/vio...

"He said he's come to believe that the current legal framework, in which paying for sex is illegal, does not actually make life better or safer for sex workers, since it drives the industry underground—where violence still takes place, but people ignore it."" reason.com/2025/12/10/f...

"What [decriminalization] means is it's not a crime to be a sex worker," said Miss Mei, the co-founder and executive director of Decrim 305. "What it doesn't mean is that trafficking is legal. Trafficking is not going to run rampant under decriminalization." www.wlrn.org/law-justice/...