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Intersex
Intersex, in humans and other animals, is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female. In...
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What is sex, anyway?
Earlier this year, Dr Jamie Lawson held an event in our Institute of Sexology gallery exploring ideas of sex and gender and how they are constructed. Here, Jamie asks a very simple question: what is...
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WOULD YOU MIND?
The Institute of Sexology is a candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts and is open until 20 September 2015. Sarah Jaffray gives us her insight into the new commission for the...
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Researching Pornography
Pornography is both consumed and condemned by the public, but there is very little research that engages with ‘ordinary’ people who use it. Researchers Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith held in-gallery...
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#OdeToSex: Poetry competition
Can you sum up the joy of sex in one tweet? What about the darker side? To celebrate our sexology literature tour, we want you to sweep us off our feet with your poetry skills. We’re looking for your...
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#OdeToSex: And the winner is…
To celebrate our sexology literature tour, we asked you to sweep us off our feet with your poetry skills for our #OdeToSex competition. Here we announce the winners and tell you what we loved about...
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Polari
Do you know how the “secret” gay language came to be? Perhaps you didn’t even know there was such a thing. Nick Dent gives us a potted history of Polari, a language born out of discrimination. “If you...
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Hysteria
The definition and diagnosis of hysteria has quite a history. Sarah Jaffray takes a look back over the years to explore the beginnings of hysteria in Greece, through to animal magnetism, vibrators and...
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Talking about sex
Earlier this year, we held some in-gallery discussions in the Institute of Sexology exploring the definitions and terms used in Britain’s Natsal survey for different aspects of sexual behaviour, and...
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Sexology Season 2015
The Institute of Sexology closed last month, and after 117 events, 82 workshops and 8,600 live audience members and participants, the Sexology Season is also drawing to an end. The Season has been...
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