Platform says government changes to online safety and defamation laws in Australia, UK and US made it ‘impossible’ to comply
A social media platform for sex workers with close to half a million users globally has shut
It’s well after midnight on a Saturday morning, but traffic is as thick as rush hour along an industrial, four-block stretch in East New York, Brooklyn.
Scantily-clad women walk mid-block, their heels click-clacking on the asphalt as they move from car to car, leaning into driver’s side windows to entice the next man in line.
One woman on the sidelines, appearing disinterested, sips from a can of Red Bull through a straw.
The best way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases is to center sex education around not just safety but pleasure — namely, making condoms “sexy,” new research says.
The majority of programs the researchers analyzed discussed sexual pleasure in the context of behavioral skills, such as “making condom use fun or sexy” and “using lubrication to enhance sexual pleasure,” researchers said. Doing so, they found, did result in behavioral changes.
This improvement was seen in a
