Casting off the cobwebs in The Red Knob Coal Bunker and dusting ourselves down, it’s not often that we post a missive on the Red Knob blog in these days of The Catastrophe brought to us by the current overlords at UK Plc – if you stick your helmet (oo’er) above the parapet too many [...]
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We noticed that a programme by this title is on BBC 3 tonight. A lot of sexual health professionals will be aware of the link between HPV and oral, head and neck cancers. Watch the programme – or read about it here on a Red Knob blog post from 2008: Good Health (F)oral(l)
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Hunkier than thou? Sexual attraction? One thing leads to another, fnar fnar etc? It’s a conjecture that a straight guy’s take on ‘wimmin‘ lies somewhere between Nick Hornby’s novel  ‘High Fidelity’ and Charles Bukowski’s  semi-autobigraphical view  - ‘Women‘. Take your pick as befits the mood you’re in – or as Mr Wild Billy Childish may ( or may not) [...]
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Back in 2001 the Gloucestershire Boys and Young Men Network came together as a mulitagency/disciplinary group to facilitate health work with young men – predominantly sexual health and mental health work. The rationale for this body of work is detailed in the journal WYM – working with young men Vol 2, No 2, May 2003. [...]
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Worth a read. Eviscerating the NHS by  Dr John Lister, Senior Lecturer in Health Journalism at Coventry University. The implications for the delivery of sexual health and reducing health inequalities are clear: in a competetive free-for-all market run by private companies and third sector organisations where is the quality control? Dr Lister’s article can be accessed here: [...]
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Well, the folks at The Red Knob may at times appear cryptically cross with the state of health and things in general (feel our spleen over the last couple of apoplectic posts ) – we’re not exactly enamoured of the current public services pogrom and the swingeing cuts that are and will continue to disrupt [...]
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We’ve got a bigger problem now?  to quote one Jello Biafra , or: I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in [...]
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