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Sexuality is often neglected because patients and doctors are uncomfortable with the subject and lack the courage and skills to discuss it

The tricky topic of sex after cancer diagnosis

Sexuality is often neglected because patients and doctors are uncomfortable with the subject and lack the courage and skills to discuss it

A recent conference demonstrated how eager young women in Sierra Leone were for information, and how helpful it is to receive it

Teaching African girls about sex

A recent conference demonstrated how eager young women in Sierra Leone were for information, and how helpful it is to receive it

Indiscriminate: A technician in Madrid with monkeypox samples. Anybody can acquire the virus if they have had close contact with an infected person. Photo: Pedro Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

Blaming gay men for the spread of monkeypox is harmful

Calling the disease sexually transmitted is inaccurate, and has led to stigmatisation of men who have sex with men

Magical work: For Tiffany Kagure Mugo, writing about sex has been a journey of learning and unlearning.   (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

The Portfolio: Sex writer Tiffany Kagure Mugo

Writing about sex has come a long way from the advice dished out by the local ‘married Aunty’. At times, Tiffany Mugo has felt like she’s faking it

Positionality in social spaces: The artist’s self-portraits were taken from a place of distress, she says, as a reaction to intrusive comments about her appearance and to subvert expectations about her identity

The Portfolio: Thandokuhle Ngcobo

The photographer’s study looks at appearance-based prejudice

Best friends Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gutwa) lost in the woods is a fitting visual metaphor for the confusion of teenage sexual discovery in Sex Education.
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Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

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Nigeria is still a very dangerous place to be different

Nigeria is moving far too slowly in terms of accommodating different genders and sexualities, sacrificing happiness, liberties and lives.

Take it off: Women enjoy a raunchy evening with male strippers but many of those at the Magic Mike SA show dressed up in a way that suggests they need an excuse to have a girls’ night out.

Women, it’s okay to lust like men

Half-naked, oiled-up, gyrating male strippers. We want this but think we can’t be seen to do so

Nakhane Touré stars in  ‘Inxeba – The Wound’.

​Actor Nakhane Touré fends off hate speech over controversial new film

‘The Wound’ tackles the unspoken issue of sexuality and tradition in a film about Xhosa initiates.

Mashadi Makwana of the Nedbank Foundation handing over a mobile library to a teacher and two pupils from Rammopodu Primary School.
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​Queerness, desire and disability

Queer people with disabilities face double discrimination when it comes to sex.

Turn on: Fetish is fine – as long as everyone consents.

Being kinky is the new normal

Happy kinksters do not have a mental disorder – but unhappy kinksters do.

Pleasure is no man’s prerogative

Is the right to safe and enjoyable sex less important than other women’s rights?

The science behind a more meaningful understanding of sexual orientation

This article is part of a series The Conversation Africa is running on issues related to LGBTI in Africa.

Peter Munt

[From our archives] Lack of sex leaves women depressed, says survey

Seven out of 10 South African women say that a lack of sexual intimacy in their relationships makes them feel depressed.

Dressed to kill: Women on the prowl may be botoxed and uninhibited – but don’t imagine they’re pathetic.

Good sex irons out the wrinkles

Having a good time in bed has little to do with appearance and lots with beauty from within.

Sexual healing: An African sex safari

The African Sexual Healing Tour is empowering, but bruised by its bland approach to heterosexual cliché.

This land is built on sex and power

From colonialism to apartheid and the present, South Africa’s fate appears to be guided by its libido.

Most teachers attempt to grade objectively but many students feel it is unfair. Photo: File

Cumtree boorish attitude as sexy as catching a virus

Jen Thorpe explains why FeministsSA does not support adult classifieds website, Cumtree’s way of doing things.

Capitalism replaces big ‘O’ with big ‘P’

Capitalism replaces big ‘O’ with big ‘P’

The commodification of the female orgasm is a distinctly unsexy and unscientific business.

Love me, love my testicles

All I want is equality with women. When women write about female beauty, their sexuality is never in question.