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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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Dial ‘S’ for sex

In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.

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Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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  • Cartoon figures with fool proof instructions for safer sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Don Herron, 1989.
  • Recto: A framed photograph of a gay couple next to a condom and a bottle of lubricant on a table with a book, a vase of roses and a lamp representing a safe sex advertisement for gay men by the Victorian AIDS council; verso: the backs of two naked men with their arms around each other, one holding a condom, the other with his fingers crossed with instructions on what to do when having sex with or without condoms. Colour lithograph by Opsis Design and Freak me Freak me Productions, 1994.
  • Recto: A framed photograph of a gay couple next to a condom and a bottle of lubricant on a table with a book, a vase of roses and a lamp representing a safe sex advertisement for gay men by the Victorian AIDS council; verso: the backs of two naked men with their arms around each other, one holding a condom, the other with his fingers crossed with instructions on what to do when having sex with or without condoms. Colour lithograph by Opsis Design and Freak me Freak me Productions, 1994.
  • Recto: A framed photograph of a gay couple next to a condom and a bottle of lubricant on a table with a book, a vase of roses and a lamp representing a safe sex advertisement for gay men by the Victorian AIDS council; verso: the backs of two naked men with their arms around each other, one holding a condom, the other with his fingers crossed with instructions on what to do when having sex with or without condoms. Colour lithograph by Opsis Design and Freak me Freak me Productions, 1994.
  • Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe : Rates of sexually transmitted infections, particularly gonorrhoea, genital herpes and chlamydia are also on the increase. Good sex education is the first step towards informed choice and self-empowerment / NPL, The Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS service for the South Asian, Middle Eastern & North African communities.
  • Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe : Rates of sexually transmitted infections, particularly gonorrhoea, genital herpes and chlamydia are also on the increase. Good sex education is the first step towards informed choice and self-empowerment / NPL, The Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS service for the South Asian, Middle Eastern & North African communities.
  • A notice board on which are pinned four lessons on how young people should behave to avoid AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Choose safer sex : for confidential advice you can ring: The National AIDS helpline (free) 0800 567 123, Terrence Higgins Trust 0171 242 1010, London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard 0171 837 7324 ... / Health Education Authority ; photo: Caroline Mardon.
  • A penis with a condom appearing on a laptop computer to advocate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified penis wearing a condom and another wearing a nightcap, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
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