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

Melissa Steyn and Mikki van Zyl have brought out an edited collection of research and theoretical essays on sexualities in South Africa. The chapters in THE PRIZE AND THE PRICE: SHAPING SEXUALITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA address a number of issues which have historically shaped and currently influence the production and forms of sexual normativities, desires, identity-related practices in the country.   The blurb describes the book in this way: What is the Prize, and who pays the Price? The desired and the desirable are often constellated through our ideas of what is undesired and undesirable, deeply knotted into our sense of self, our sense of where and how we fit into the world. (Continues)

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Hello everyone, welcome to the group and thanks for signing up. This group is a forum for sharing ideas and resources about teaching and learning in the field of sexuality studies. At the moment I am involved in developing a curriculum for a short course on sexuality theory and research methodology. A number of group members met recently in Perth to advance this agenda. We had a great meeting and many terrific ideas were generated. Now it's time for the hard work of writing! (Continues)