“The male salmon is as pugnacious as the little stickleback….” Charles Darwin
“He’s an intelligent bloke, why doesn’t he wear one?” The Semen Skater
Watching a TV programme on Darwinism the other night, I couldn’t help but think about Mr Jarvis Cocker’s rockin’ beat combo Pulp and their popular music ditty Common People. Here we are spinning […]
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Well, next week is sexual health week - an invention of those arbiters of sexual health, the fpa? Whilst it would be boorish (who, us?) to knock the earnestness of the fpa and sexual health week - and any of the other campaigns that are run pre-Christmas, St Valentine’s Day and whenever the whim takes […]
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Hope…
In the news this week - at last ’a breakthrough’ with regard to treatment for prostate cancer. Hailed in a BBC News article as ‘the most significant advance in the field for 70 years’, and cautiously applauded in other news articles, it is claimed that the drug Abiraterone, which works by blocking the hormones which cause the cancer […]
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This is The Red Knob fanzine. It’s about sexual health. It is targeted at a specific male cultural group according to principles of social marketing segmentation - it applies the sociology theory of masculinities to define the masculine group it is aimed at, and uses language and humour, cartoons and imagery that may offend the […]
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Equal opportunities? Whether it’s STIs or guidance on how sex and relationships education should be delivered, let’s have a level playing field! It’s time we moved on from the one-size fits all approach - one camp of people ‘dictating’ how SRE should be delivered whilst credible theory and guidance from another camp offers valid ways […]
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Standing in the reception of the Youth Offending Service I currently work for, a colleague from the training department came in with a brown cardboard box filled with literature, condoms and a prosthetic penis/condom demonstration model. She began a conversation, elaborating to myself and the others present, how she would be using the contents of […]
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