Yes means Yes, and Safer Sex is Hot! Dearest Sexual Health Posse, Smart Tart Press vivaciously invites you to collaborate on a zine, Smart Tart #1. This is the first issue! The submission deadline will be at the end of August 2010. Smart Tart, a sex positive zine is about sexual health promotion for women, transgender and queer people. Submissions can include articles, stories, fiction, poetry, and artwork depicting and discussing specifically sexual health. Smart Tart Press strives to build upon the collaborative media production generated from zines and the website, to work toward getting a printing press off the ground. A non-profit press to provide free serves for sexual health educators, organizations and collectives, to better support outreach efforts and creative expression. Articles should be between 500-1000 words. Your submission can be on any topic related to sexual health. Some topics to explore: * Safer Sex        * Anatomy * History            * Erotica and Smut (Continues)

Although Sexology SA has been founded in 2002 we are grateful to celebrate our brand new professional website.  Sexology SA & The Academy for Sexology wish to invite all of you (who share the common vision of sexual health and sexual education) to visit www.sexology.co.za Let us all join hands. We are proud to be part of Africa and the world. The Professional Council (Sexuality South Africa) is still under construction. However our Professional Council for Sexual Health Professionals is in an advanced stage of formal recognition among related professional councils, NGO's, formal Government departments and other stakeholders in this regard.    Prof Johann Lemmer 10 April 2010  www.sexology.co.za 

Hi Folks I'm looking for a way to chat here with more sexuality researchers in the Asia-Pacific, not just about AIDS issues (where I work anyway).  What are some of the hottest issues we researchers should be looking at right now? I want to take some ideas about the Asia-Pacific region to the International Academy of Sex Research conference next year to get more focus on this region and our sexuality research capacity and needs. Ideas welcome.  Gary

Dear All, I thought you might have an interest in seeing the recent issue of NORA which has articles on Sexualities in Africa edited by Elina Oinas and Signe Arnfred. I apologise if you had already seen it. Routledge, the publisher of the journal, has allowed free access till 31 Dec 2009 access at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g914415942 Regards, Kopano

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The launch of sexualitystudies.net has been well received, with 163 users signed up to date. One of the key objectives of this project is to support the development of collegiate networks among people working in the field of sexuality studies, and by joining one or more of our online groups you've taken the first step on that path. This post is to encourage you to introduce yourself to other members of the group. (Continues)

Hello, what a great new resource! Just trying to figure out how to best use it, and thought I would start by asking for your help.    I am looking for photographs from the 19th and early 20th century categorising and showing homosexuals as pathological and recognisable by certain characteristic features (eg. as Lombroso did with criminals). I know they exist, and have found a few in a book called Psychopathology by Edward Kempf from 1921. Has anyone come across others? Suggestions of which archives might be useful?   (Continues)