Dr Timaree

How Unemployment Shaped My Reproductive Health Care—Analysis Black women left the labor force in droves in 2025. Some are now struggling to afford period products, contraceptives, and OB-GYN care.

"As a result of my job loss, I lost my health insurance. And my intrauterine device (IUD)—the extremely effective birth control method I have relied on for the past decade—expires this year. I’m not sure I will be able to get a new one." rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/11/10/h...

The sex ed you get depends on your ZIP code — and your state’s politics In some states, students learn about consent and healthy relationships. In others, they get "Baby Olivia" and abstinence-only instruction.

Sex ed is actually extremely popular, so its foes are sneaky and dehumanize LGBTQ folks, especially trans kids.

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The 25 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of the 21st Century So Far, Ranked We look back on the last 25 years of queer cinema.

What would you change?
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7 Best Libido Gummies for When You’re Horny, Tired, or Both We break down what’s inside and which ones, if any, might make a real difference for your sex drive.

"The doses in gummy form are usually much smaller than the amounts used in actual studies. The placebo effect for sex supplements is huge, the marketing is often way ahead of the data, and plenty of these products can still interact with meds or cause side effects." www.vice.com/en/article/b...

The 10 Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2026 Next year, LGBTQ+ stories are going to shine on the small screen.

"there was an increase in LGBTQ+ characters between 2024 and May 31, 2025, the organization also found that a whopping 41% of those characters wouldn't be returning because of series cancellations/endings, limited series formats, or a character dying/leaving the show." www.them.us/story/antici...

Google's most searched sex questions of 2025 officially unveiled LADbible can exclusively reveal this year's top trending sex questions on Google

'What is gooning gen z’
The job of sex ed keeps changing, but it also stays the same
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Sex on the Farm: Deconstructing sex/gender binary with genital homology Overstreet writes on genital homology and how it can be used to deconstruct the sex/gender binary.

"Genital homology DOES NOT imply that there are two sexes or genders based on homologous structures. In fact, genital development in human embryos does not always proceed in one of two ways; there are numerous variations"
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Sex Education is a Human Right BY SOOAH PARK Fans of the classic chick flick Mean Girls will be familiar with the sex education scene: “Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die!”1 Though exaggerated for comedi…

"Ensuring universal access to sex education is not merely an educational issue; it is a matter of justice and human dignity that intersects with all aspects of an individual’s health." yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/12/08/s...

"The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the second-largest diocese in the nation, has agreed to negotiate a settlement that will pay more than 1,300 people who said priests and lay staff members sexually abused them as children." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas Detail "Bizarre" Public Interest in Their Sex Lives as Teenagers Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas candidly detailed what it was like to face public scrutiny over their sex lives and decision to wear purity rings when they were teens on the Disney Channel.

"the kind of scrutiny the brothers faced through was a product of its time that would not be accepted today." www.eonline.com/news/1425810...

Everyone's Talking About the 'Heated Rivarly' Sex Scenes—Meet the Woman Who Choreographed Them Intimacy coordinator Chala Hunter talks about crafting the show’s steamiest moments, and why they’re revolutionary.

"But why is this level of queer intimacy so surprising? HBO Max and Crave’s Heated Rivalry, which zeroes in on the romance between hockey rivals Hollander and Rozanov, is gritty, graphic, and unfiltered. The sex scenes go to depths rarely explored in queer television." www.elle.com/culture/movi...

3 Signs Your Winter Libido Slump Isn’t Personal, It’s Seasonal As we move into cuffing season, more people are worried about their dwindling libidos. (Yes, it's a common winter worry.)

"If you still want to be close to your partner through cuddling and emotional connection, yet simply don’t feel “in the mood” for sex, the cold weather is likely to blame."
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Cynthia Erivo Clears The Air About Elphaba’s ‘Wicked’ Sex Cardigan: “The Aim Was Not To Turn Her Into A Sexual Object, But Instead A Softer Human Being Worthy Of Being Loved” — Airbnb Experience Cynthia Erivo opens up about Elphaba's Wicked: For Good wool cardigan used for "As Long As You're Mine" duet at the Airbnb experience event.

"All I really wanted was for everyone to see her as someone vulnerable, soft, sometimes awkward and anxious. Someone who doesn’t [always] necessarily believe in herself.” deadline.com/2025/12/cynt...

How I'm spending Sunday afternoon

The ‘Warm Sex’ Trend: Here’s What It Is And Isn’t You may have heard of this "warm sex" trend on social media or elsewhere that's different from the traditional hot sex. Here's what it is and its potential benefits.

Aaah, I remember when I had a newspaper sex column and had to come up with topic every week

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Teaching Sex Education in Schools Is More Fraught Than Ever - EdSurge News Government policies targeting LGBTQ+ kids and gender self-determination are making sex-ed teachers’ jobs more difficult.

"District responses have been mixed, with some states quick to issue statements indicating compliance, while some districts have resisted anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, at the risk of losing federal funding. Meanwhile some states have sued the U.S. Dept of HHS." www.edsurge.com/news/2025-12...

Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power and the Downfall of a Bay Area Wellness Cult | KQED We talk about OneTaste, a company dedicated to “orgasmic meditation,” and how its cult-like nature led to a criminal conviction.

All i can say is that years ago, I had a OneTaste member on my podcast and I remember asking a lot of questions that didn't get answered. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Japan: Last high court ruling a damaging step backwards on same-sex marriage In response to today’s Tokyo High Court decision that endorsed the Japanese government ban on same-sex marriage, Amnesty International’s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said: “The court’s decision tod...

“Japan remains the only G7 country without legal recognition for same-sex couples. There need to be solid, legal measures in place to protect same-sex couples and the LGBTI community in Japan from all forms of discrimination.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Fewer one night stands, more AI lovers: the data behind generation Z’s sex lives Shaped by lockdown and two Trump presidencies, gen Z are grappling with a lot in love, dating and the bedroom

"1 in 4 gen Z adults aged 18 to 24 have not had partnered sex yet. Break that down by gender, and you will find that one in three gen Z men reported never having partnered sex, compared with only one in five gen Z women.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/data...

They're both dark, violent mysteries helmed by a beautiful, elfin-faced super smart woman with lots of PTSD. Both acknowledge the existence of queerness but only show straight sex scenes.

Specifically, it's Veronica Mars for jocks

This will only make sense to like 2 people but: Absentia is the spiritual sequel to Veronica Mars

Books with LGBTQ characters don't make kids queer, but they can make queer kids feel less alone, and help cis straight kids understand the diversity of reality.

how much of your day is spent getting other people to do their jobs? i spend so much time following up and circling back, reminding people of what they said they'd do weeks ago, moving things around because other people dropped the ball, double booked something, etc.

having grown up near there, i can tell you with certainty that the MAGAs won't learn anything from this. they'll find a way to blame immigrants and maybe even trans people for it, probably.

‘Jeffrey Epstein is not unique’: What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking Child sex traffickers are typically white, wealthy men who often insulate themselves from detection and charges, according to a sexual exploitation scholar.

"This is not a child somehow deciding that they’re going to go out and trade sex for money, heat, food, anything of value. This is a case of perpetrators preying on the vulnerability of children who have often been abused prior to their commercial exploitation." theconversation.com/jeffrey-epst...

The challenge here- for me- is that meta doesn't distinguish between trafficking and burlesque show promotion.
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How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?

"In PG movies, suggestive material may include “innuendo or double entendre, flirting, kissing, a couple seen briefly in bed together under the sheets.” An R rating may mean sex scenes with “bare backsides, breasts or full-frontal nudity (male or female).”" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

Dominican Republic: Court Ends Security Forces Gay Sex Ban The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court has struck down provisions in the Codes of Justice of the National Police and the Armed Forces that criminalized consensual same-sex conduct by officers, ...

"The ruling, made public on November 18, 2025, is a landmark victory for equality, ending a regime of state-sanctioned discrimination that violated the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) officers. " www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Company pulls AI-powered talking teddy bear toy for giving sex advice - UPI.com An AI-powered talking teddy bear has been removed from sale after researchers found it could easily discuss sex and other dangerous topics.

""We were surprised to find how quickly Kumma would take a single sexual topic we introduced into the conversation and run with it, simultaneously escalating in graphic detail while introducing new sexual concepts of its own," the report said." www.upi.com/Odd_News/202...