SEX
IN DEPTH
When freaky-deaky equals hara-kiri The
population of Japan is in decline, the birthrate
is plummeting, and the consequences look grim.
Some studies put the blame on Japanese men who's
appetite for masturbation, sex toys and virtual
tete-a-tetes are turning them off the real
thing. The future, one might say, is in their
hands. - William Sparrow7-3-2008
Male sex workers worry AIDS campaigners With the number of male sex workers said
to be rising in the city, AIDS awareness activists are
concerned that these men are not as aware of HIV-related
risks as their female counterparts.
29-2-2008
HIV ignorance is no defense in Singapore Every weekend, men from Singapore take a
one-hour ferry ride to Indonesia's Batam Island for
cheap golf, beer and sex. About S$70 ($49) hires an
island prostitute for the day, compared to just an hour
with a Singapore hooker. The trade has contributed to a
doubling of Singapore's HIV infection rate in the past
10 years, the government says.
15-2-2008
Outsourcing wombs in India In a new
twist to the outsourcing for which India has become
renowned, poor Indian women are renting out their wombs
to foreigners. Surrogate motherhood once was limited in
India to helping close relatives who couldn't complete a
pregnancy due to medical difficulties.
14-11-2007
Gay sex workers play Russian roulette with HIV in South Asia Shujaat plies his trade
well. As dusk falls on the Pir Wadhai bus station in the
Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, the slender 19-year-old
gauges disembarking passengers for that 'look' - a
responsive glance or wink suggesting a desire for more
than just a quick bus ride home.
3-11-2007
Sex tutorial with Singapore's Dr Love A newly-married couple had sexual
intercourse in front of a Singapore sex expert known as
Dr Love after complaining to him that they could not
experience sexual pleasure, reported China Press.
3-11-2007
Indonesia: Cheap sex, high risk We were
kerb-crawling for sex workers near the railway station
in the grimy Cipinang district of Jakarta, Indonesia's
sprawling capital, with Endang Supriyati providing a
running commentary from the back seat of the car.
26-9-2007
Asian fishermen hit hard by AIDS In appearance, they couldn't be more
different. Ririn, with her warm brown skin and plump
face, simply glows. Young and sweet, just two months
after giving birth to a baby girl.
13-9-2007
Rich, unfaithful men spur AIDS in Asia Contrary to the widely-held belief that
HIV/AIDS is fuelled by poverty, a surprising and
authoritative new study reveals that the epidemic in
Asia is being driven by wealthy men, often after having
unprotected sex with prostitutes.
30-8-2007
Disposable commodity? The shame of female infanticide I was told that the day I was born, the
midwife blurted out - "Oh No it's a girl. Now I won't
get the same amount in baksheesh (tip) as I would have,
had this been a boy." My irate grandmother not only gave
her much more than what she would have ever got for the
birth of a boy, my grandparents threw a grand party in
celebration to welcome my arrival.
30-8-2007
China bans cosmetic, sex change surgery on TV China's broadcasting watchdog has banned
all television shows involving plastic and transsexual
surgery. All stations are prohibited from organizing,
making or broadcasting TV reality shows featuring such
operations, according to the State Administration of
Radio, Film and Television.
30-8-2007
Mounting poverty, health risks for China's sex workers In an attempt to
escape poverty, women in China are increasingly turning
to prostitution and competition for clients has
reportedly resulted in lower pay and more dangerous
conditions for China's estimated ten-million sex
workers. 22-8-2007
Sex slavery leads to increase in AIDS Adding another bleak dimension to the
sordid world of sex slavery, young girls who have been
trafficked abroad into prostitution are emerging as an
AIDS risk factor in their home countries.
8-8-2007
Students top Shanghai pregnancy hotline list Nearly half the women calling Shanghai's
first hotline for unexpected pregnancies are students.
Hotline officials released the figures yesterday in a
move to promote young people's sexual awareness ahead of
World Population Day on Wednesday.
15-7-2007
STDs spreading to Japan's older ranks Summer's here and that means an increase
in sexually transmitted diseases, with older Japanese
women particularly susceptible, according to women's
weekly Shukan Josei. 15-7-2007
Japan: Sexaholics let it all hang out About two years ago, 29-year-old Asuka
Hisamoto, who describes herself as a "completely
ordinary" housewife, developed an irresistible itch for
coitus. "I wanted to do it every night," the Hyogo
Prefecture resident relates in Uramono Japan. "It got to
the point that my husband couldn't stand it any longer
and began sleeping on the sofa."
5-7-2007
Taiwanese teens want sex, education After decades of ignoring sex education,
Taiwan is blessed with what some call Asia's highest
rate of teen pregnancy. This mightn't matter so much
were it not for the fact that Taiwan also has one of the
highest rates of abortion in Asia, even as our
modernization and wealth make betrothal less attractive
and threaten to push the average marrying age for men
and women above 30. 5-7-2007
China: Family planning policy to stay The government will stick to its family
planning policy for the foreseeable future despite some
negative influences. Zhang Weiqing, head of the national
population and family planning commission, said the
government will remain committed to controlling
population growth and improving its quality.
5-7-2007
South Korea, Singapore turn birthrate tide with immigration Declining
birthrates are a problem that Japan shares with South
Korea and Singapore. But unlike Japan, which has yet to
open its doors widely to immigration, these two
countries are welcoming people from elsewhere in Asia to
fill the gap. 1-7-2007
Fertility drug use booms in China Wealthy couples in China are turning to
fertility drugs in growing numbers, with a report
suggesting some may be using it to beat the one child
policy. One hospital has reportedly seen the number of
women giving birth to twins or triplets soar in recent
years. 28-5-2007
Lets talk about sex, says UNAIDS UNAIDS country director Dr Denis Broun
has a tough task on his hand. He has to convince at
least three state governments not to ban sex education
to control the spread of HIV.
21-5-2007
Japan: Two minute tug on the rug can help you lose weight, look more beautiful Women can
lose weight and look more beautiful simply by tugging on
their pubic hair, according to Shukan Josei. Clutching
at the map of Tasmania stimulates the sex hormones, gets
blood flowing toward the genitals and releases
pheromones. 16-5-2007
Sex education creates storm in AIDS-stricken India Moves to bring sex out
of the closet in largely conservative India have kicked
up a morality debate between educators who say sex
education will reduce HIV rates, and critics who fear it
will corrupt young minds.
16-5-2007
Health expert warns AIDS epicentre moving to Asia Australia is facing an inevitable
increase in HIV/AIDS infection rates as the disease
continues to spread from Africa to Asia, home to more
than half the world's population, a University of NSW
academic has said. 16-5-2007
Lahore sex workers despondent over risk of contracting HIV With nobody willing to
help her escape, 28-year-old Rubina is confined to life
as a sex worker in Lahore's centuries-old Heera Mandi -
widely deemed to be the largest red-light district in
Pakistan, if not the entire subcontinent.
1-5-2007
Orissa debates sex education in schools After Maharashtra and Kerala, it is the
turn of Orissa now to debate the touchy issue of sex
education in schools. 1-5-2007
Orissa debates sex education in schools After Maharashtra and Kerala, it is the
turn of Orissa now to debate the touchy issue of sex
education in schools. 1-5-2007
Where have all the girls gone? One of the most shocking global
trends I have encountered in travels to more than 45
countries on all continents in the past five years is
the practice of gendercide. 21-4-2007
Abortion: My story Making the
difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy is
distressing enough but unfortunately some young Asian
women feel they have no choice.
21-4-2007
Few Malaysians satisfied with their sex life Although most Malaysians agree that sex
is important, fewer than two in five (38%) of them are
satisfied with their sex lives.
21-4-2007
Safe sex, a luxury for migrant workers "We feel kind of sorry when these
young guys struggle against each other to get one
condom," said Zhang Jixiao, Director of Home of Green
Apples, a sex health education institute affiliated to
China Population Information and Education Centre.
24-3-2007
Indian government will pay for female babies to stop sex-selection abortions The
government is India is unveiling yet another proposal to
try to stem the tide of sex-selection abortions and
female infanticides there. The Asian nation, where
cultural values place more emphasis on boys, has had a
hard time stopping the practices and the skewed
male-female gender ratios they produce.
16-3-2007
Japanese too busy to have sex The
secret of Japan's exceptionally low birthrate is out -
more than a third of married couples do not have sex.
16-3-2007
India gets tough on sex determination tests Faced with a declining sex ratio, the
Madhya Pradesh government has directed that cases
against sonography centres - misused by people who want
sons - can now be directly registered in courts.
14-2-2007
China will step up enforcement of laws against sex-selection abortion On a day when
hundreds of thousands of Americans are lining the
streets of Washington to protest 34 years of legalized
abortion, China's political leaders say they will do
more to stop sex-selection abortions there and to
correct a growing gender imbalance that its one-child
family planning program has yielded.
23-1-2007
Asia: The value of a girl Nature,
left to its own devices, produces roughly an even split
between newborn baby boys and girls - for obvious
reasons. Tragically, however, human intervention has
skewed those numbers in many Asian countries. The
result? Experts say that tens of millions of females are
now effectively "missing" from expected demographic
patterns. 31-12-2006
India's ask and tell policy It may
sound like a strange battle cry but the world's
second-largest Army has trained its guns on an unlikely
enemy. "We consider HIV our enemy No. 1," says
Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services,
Vice-Admiral V K Singh.
31-12-2006
Gender discrimination blamed for sex imbalance in China Discrimination against the
female sex remains the primary cause of China's growing
newborn gender imbalance, with an average of 123 boys
being born for every 100 girls, a researcher in women's
studies said on Friday.
24-12-2006
Vietnam holds conference on combating sex-selection abortions Two months after
the Vietnamese government issued new fines hoping to
prevent sex-selection abortions, the nation held a joint
conference with a United Nations committee to discuss
the problem. The United Nations Population Fund,
criticized for supporting China's forced abortion
policy, will help the Asian nation.
16-12-2006
Japan's hymen restoration operations thing of the past Japan's top hymen
restoration clinic was once busy when it was a common
procedure at a time chastity was given greater credence
in society than it is now, but it hasn't performed the
operation in about 20 years, according to Shukan
Bunshun. 9-12-2006
Casual sex increases Asia; spawning vulnerablity to HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS
constitutes a significant public health threat around
the world. By the end of 2006, almost 39.5 million
people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, and
unfortunately 90% of them are in developing countries.
26-11-2006
Lanzhou mandates condom-use for sex-workers Lanzhou, the capital of Northwest
China's Gansu Province, has created a 100 per cent
Condom Use Programme (CUP) for entertainment places in
an effort to stop HIV/AIDS spreading from high-risk
people to the general public through sexual contact.
24-11-2006
Deadly 'iku iku byo' reaches a climax in Japan Growing numbers of Japanese women are
afflicted with an illness that gives them orgasms
virtually 24 hours a day. And with suggestions that it
could be deadly, the women hardly know whether they're
coming or going, according to Shukan Post.
18-11-2006
The sexual concerns of Korean men Korean men are not very considerate of
their sexual partners, but they are more interested in
sex. They are also more willing than their counterparts
elsewhere to treat sex problems like impotence, though
it seems they do not back up their words with action by
seeing a doctor for accurate diagnosis of their
condition and taking the right medication.
18-11-2006
China's Comrade Condoms In his
unremarkable 22-year life, which ended ingloriously in
1962 when a PLA comrade accidentally backed a truck into
a power pole that fell and crushed him, Lei Feng wanted
to be nothing more than a selfless "revolutionary screw
that never rusts." 8-11-2006
Indian men don't play safe in sex Lack of information about safe sex
have made most Indian heterosexual males who visit sex
workers seeking anal sex believe ignorantly that they
would not catch HIV/AIDS.
21-10-2006
China: AIDS lecture sparks prostitution row A local health authority's decision
to lecture sex workers in a bid to curb the spread of
HIV/AIDS has ignited another round of public debate on
prostitution. 21-10-2006
Pakistan: Marginalised male sex workers vulnerable to HIV/AIDS Under the illuminated
Minar-e-Pakistan, the towering monument that marks the
birth of the country, Pervaiz Din lays out the
accessories of his trade. The tiny bottles of massage
oil and aromatic colognes tinkle cheerfully as he pulls
them out of a cloth bag and sets them out on a tray.
Through much of the balmy September night, Pervaiz will
await customers who seek a soothing roadside massage, a
head rub - or something more.
24-9-2006
Chinese surgeons 'succeed' with sex organ transplant Surgeons in China say they carried
out the world's first penis transplant. The doctors
claim the operation was a success - even though the
organ was later removed when the patient and his wife
suffered "psychological problems".
18-9-2006
India to ask young villagers to encourage safe sex India plans to recruit one young man
and woman from every large village in the country to
over the next five years teach their peers about safe
sex and HIV. 18-9-2006
Over 47 pct of Cambodian hookers suffer from sexual diseases Some 47.1 percent
of Cambodia's prostitutes were contaminated with sexual
diseases mainly because they only asked 80 percent of
their clients to wear condoms while rarely adopting any
protective measures when they had sex with lovers or
husbands. 18-9-2006
Kashmir grapples with growing AIDS Jammu and Kashmir has a new problem
to contend with now - a sharp rise in HIV/AIDS cases.
While officials claim there are 745 such cases in the
insurgency-hit state, unofficial estimates peg the
number at 25,000. 18-9-2006
China to probe TV commercial advertising potency drug A Chinese television
commercial that features businessmen boasting of how
they win over female clients with a potency drug has
come under attack from members of Internet forums,
prompting state TV authorities to launch an
investigation. 31-8-2006
India home for 60 percent of Asia's HIV cases India is home to nearly 60 per cent
of the 5.5 million people afflicted with AIDs in Asia,
and with in the country, almost 70 per cent of the
victims are concentrated in just eight states, latest
studies show. 31-8-2006
Transient India sex trade threatens faster HIV pace India's transient sex trade is one of
South Asia's biggest challenges in the fight against
HIV, with difficulties tracking sex workers and
customers, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.
16-8-2006
HIV rife among Asian men Stigma, intolerance, and government
inaction are fuelling the rapid spread of HIV - the
virus that causes Aids - among gay and bisexual men in
Asia, says a report.
16-8-2006
Birth control, a thorny problem for Philippines Nick couldn't believe so many of his
friends had become accidental fathers when he returned
to the Philippines after five years overseas.
1-8-2006
Sex workers adopt IT solutions to fight AIDS If you think IT is only for the white
collar tech-savvy urbanites, think again. Marginalised
sex workers in Karnataka are now swiping their newly
acquired smart cards to avail themselves of discounts on
daily purchases while keeping a check on HIV/AIDS.
1-8-2006
'Clean' Nagano's dark, dirty secret: AIDS "Among Japan's 47 prefectures, Nagano is
a rarity in that its public morals laws and ordinances
prohibit sex businesses like 'soaplands' and 'fashion
health' salons," the unnamed "pink" journalist tells
Shukan Shincho. 17-7-2006
China will not ban sex-selection abortions despite gender imbalance The Chinese
government has decided it will not prohibit abortions
used to prevent the birth of girl babies even though
sex-selection abortions have contributed to a stark
gender imbalance that is creating a host of social
problems. The nation's state-owned media reported the
plan to scrap the idea.
28-6-2006
Survey: Erection hardness key to sexual satisfaction Ask any couple
if the hardness of a male erection matters when it comes
to sexual satisfaction and the answer you will get is
very likely to be "yes". This was the most common
response from the Pfizer Global Better Sex Survey (GBSS)
- a conclusion that is shared globally, including
Malaysians. 28-6-2006
Expert: Japan needs more sex While
the government hopes it can curb the falling birthrate
by offering families more financial assistance, one
expert says it's the lack of sex, not income, that lies
at the root of the country's population problem.
28-6-2006
Asia now second to Africa in HIV cases When HIV first escalated in Africa and
the Caribbean, Asia remained virtually untouched and
unaware. But the world's most populous continent is
catching up. 6-6-2006
Most HIV-positive Cambodians lack access to treatment Kong Kim Sy
tearfully recounted being shunned at every step -- but
what was especially painful for her is the memory of
being thrown out of religious ceremonies in her home
village. 27-5-2006
Russia steps up fight against AIDS Russian President Vladimir Putin has
ordered health officials to warn Russians about HIV and
has hugely increased the amount of money the country
spends on HIV prevention and treatment.
7-5-2006
Spring romance goes high tech with the latest condom goodies Ah, spring! A time
for romance. And, judging from Japan's plummeting birth
rate, also the time for contraception --- the most
popular means of which is still the humble condom. It's
clear, nevertheless, that in Japan condoms owe their
long-standing popularity to ongoing technological
progress. 23-4-2006
Woman doctor nabbed for sex-determination test A woman doctor in Haryana was caught
red-handed Wednesday after she conducted a
sex-determination test on a woman to ascertain the sex
of her unborn child. 23-4-2006
Iran's anti-HIV program a model It
took 30 meetings just to create a slim AIDS-awareness
handbook for Iran's conservative high schools. A drawing
of a condom disappeared early; a photo of a syringe
survived. A mention of sexual transmission was approved,
but only with a reminder that sex before marriage is
forbidden. 20-4-2006
China: Too many men As China's
President Hu Jintao makes his first official visit to
the United States this week, his nation faces a
demographic time bomb that could affect its stability.
20-4-2006
Lucy Liu in China for AIDS film Lucy Liu is returning to her Chinese
roots for a harrowing new movie about the world AIDS
epidemic. The Charlie's Angels star will appear in the
Chinese language segment of new film 3 Needles, and
admits it's one of the most important movies she has
ever made. 5-4-2006
Punishing foeticide Female foeticide
has been a blot on the patriarchal Asian society - a
society that values males and discriminates against the
female sex. The result has been a skewed, highly
lopsided sex ratio in parts of India and China.
5-4-2006
China launches sex education, HIV-prevention program aimed at truckers China has launched
a sex education program with support from international
organizations that provides long-distance truck and bus
drivers with decks of cartoon playing cards displaying
sexual health information at no cost.
5-4-2006
Is anybody listening? Pregnant
Indian women in the UK who want to get rid of unwanted
female foetuses are being referred by unscrupulous
British general practitioners to a "mafia" of doctors in
Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai, it was alleged this
week. 25-3-2006
Asian countries call for universal access to AIDS prevention More than 200 delegates
from over 20 countries in the Asia Pacific region are
met last week in Thailand's resort city of Pattaya
to discuss how to ensure universal access to HIV/AIDS
prevention and treatment.
19-2-2006
20 HK men with HIV in net sex link Twenty men who met through the Internet
have been infected with HIV after having unsafe sex, the
first such cluster of cases in Hong Kong.
19-2-2006
India: Empowering teenagers - Sex not a taboo It's very sad and disheartening to note
that, teenage boys are committing rape, a sex crime, in
their early and formative years. It is even more
shocking that as many as 7 such sex related cases within
a period of 45 days have occured in the Dakshina Kannada
district of India. 19-2-2006
Women more vulnerable to HIV infections The view of poor and developing countries
is that women and adolescent girls are more vulnerable
to HIV infection on each sexual encounter because of the
biological nature of the process and the vulnerability
of the reproductive tract tissues to the virus,
especially in adolescent girls.
19-2-2006
Philippines HIV cases double over three years An AIDS crisis threatens the
Philippines as the number of people who are HIV carriers
has doubled in just over three years, the health
department warned. 9-2-2006
AIDS winding its way through China This ancient road has had many names: old
tea horse trail. The Burma Road. Route 320. But the
label that matters most today is one that appears on no
sign at all: the AIDS road.
8-2-2006
Bangladesh model for Muslim world to fight AIDS Bangladesh can be a role model for other
Muslim nations in involving religious leaders for
creating awareness on taboos like HIV and AIDS, Dr Nafis
Sadik, special adviser to the UN secretary general,
said. 28-1-2006
Asian Britons seek discount plastic surgery in Pakistan A growing number of
well-educated, British-born Asian women in their 20s are
combining annual visits to relatives in Pakistan with
cut-price, nip-and-tuck operations, surgeons say.
25-1-2006
India may have seen 10 million sex-selection abortions over last 20 years A new study
appearing in Britain's premier medical journal The
Lancet says as many as 10 million sex-selection
abortions may have occurred in India since ultrasounds
were able to detect the gender of an unborn child
approximately 20 years ago.
15-1-2006
Iran's HIV cases top 12,000 Some
12,556 people in Iran are infected with the HIV virus,
631 of whom have already developed AIDS, according to
the health ministry's latest figures reported by a
student news agency. 5-1-2006
So much need, so little help for the deathly ill in Burma A growing humanitarian
emergency has sparked fears that thousands could die of
disease and malnutrition in Burma, whose repressive
military regime has drawn international condemnation and
punishing US trade
sanctions. 29-12-2005
China: Mixed reactions over campus sex education BBS Li Feng, a sophomore at
a Hebei university, used to feel sick over misguided
fear of having contracted STDs (sexually transmitted
diseases) despite not having any intimacy with his
lover. 29-12-2005
Malaysia: Lifting the veil on sex Parents shy away from talking about it.
Teachers blush at the mention of the three-letter word.
But possibly as early as next year, five million
schoolchildren will be encouraged to discuss sexual
fantasies, abstaining from pre-marital sex, paedophilia
and the sanctity of
marriage. 22-12-2005
UAE: Attempts to smuggle in sex stimulants foiled Federal health
authorities in the United Arab Emirates have foiled
several attempts to smuggle thousands of medical
products, including sexual stimulants, at one of the
country's entry points, said a senior health official.
16-12-2005
Singapore informs spouses of HIV-positive partners Singapore's health ministry has started
informing spouses of HIV-positive patients directly
about their partners' disease in order to curb the
spread of HIV, the ministry
said. 12-12-2005
Singapore jails five HIV blood donors for lying A Singapore court sentenced five
HIV-positive blood donors to prison for lying about
their sexual history, a court official said on
Thursday. 12-12-2005
Asia needs HIV prevention programs In a region that is home to
two-thirds of the world's population, the HIV prevalence
rate of 0.4 percent-significantly lower than Sub-Sahara Africa-translates into more than
8 million adults and children living with HIV.
More than one million people were newly infected with
HIV in South and South-East Asia in 2005.
2-12-2005
Thai AIDS "success story" scares Asia Thailand, repeatedly cited by
international agencies as a success story in the fight
against HIV/AIDS, is offering a new lesson these
days. 4-12-2005
WHO says AIDS may infect 10 mln in China by 2010 Some 10 million people
in China may be infected with the AIDS virus by 2010,
the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday, as
it called for stronger political will by Asian
governments to stop the spread of the disease.
4-12-2005
Saudi Arabia should export its AIDS awareness campaign According to a
United Nations report issued last week there are an
estimated half million people in the Middle East and
North Africa region who are HIV positive.
4-12-2005
India: Subsidised, but HIV therapy only for rich India may be a major exporter of
anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs but barely 30,000 people are
actually on medication in this country which itself has
a burden of five million HIV positive cases.
1-12-2005
Number of HIV/AIDS patients reaches 130,000 in China More than 130,000
confirmed HIV/AIDS carriers and patients have been
reported nationwide by the end of September about 50,000
higher than the figure in the end of June last year.
1-12-2005
Hite's sex lecture fails to satisfy Chinese Dr Shere Hite, renowned US researcher on
sexuality and gender, received a less than warm response
from college students at Renmin University where she
delivered a lecture last week.
29-11-2005
Prostitutes, migrants need more sex education Prostitutes and migrant women in the city
need more access to sex education to reduce the spread
of sexual disease and cut down on the high abortion rate
in Shanghai. 29-11-2005
HIV increase in gay Hong Kong Hong Kong's health department reports an
increase in the number of new HIV cases among gay men,
while the rate amongst heterosexual people remains
steady. 23-11-2005
UN says China slow to fight AIDS, praises Thailand China and Myanmar
are not doing enough to prevent the spread of AIDS, a UN
report said, praising Thailand as the Asian success
story for bringing about a decline in the number of new
HIV cases.
23-11-2005
Mirror, mirror... Women are supposed
to be the fairer sex, but Asian men are spending a lot
of time and money on their looks. Why? Because the girls
like them that way.
9-11-2005
Japan's AIDS time bomb The focus of
most of the delegates to the International AIDS
Conference in Bangkok is on the enormous problems posed
by the disease to developing countries. But it is not
just the poor who are unprepared to deal with AIDS.
24-10-2005
Planning panel in India sires a sex revolution The contours of sexual behaviour in the
country may change radically if the Planning
Commission's recommendations to sharpen the campaign
against the spread of HIV/AIDS fructify.
18-10-2005
China's kids and sex ignorance Chinese kids being influenced by the West
isn't news. Many sport the baggy pants, tinted hair,
pierced body parts, and listen to hip-hop and make all
the right dance moves. But when it comes to their bodies
and sex, they could still learn a little something.
14-10-2005
India's male sex workers breathe easy From living in seclusion and operating
under fear of social ostracism, community male sex
workers offering services to males in Kerala are today
doing business with more
ease. 11-10-2005
Man succeeds, where US government fails The US government and its current
administration are cutting funding and setting
unrealistic boundires in donations to 'safen' human
sexualtiy in Asia while one the most unlikely characters
- a US sex industry mogul - is working to insure sex is
safe in Asia. 11-10-2005
Thailand rolls out national AIDS drug plan Thailand rolled out a national plan on
Saturday to give life-saving drugs to people living with
HIV-AIDS, one of the few Asian nations to offer
universal treatment in a region where the virus
threatens to run rampant.
5-10-2005
AIDS believed on rise again in Thailand Thailand was once considered a model in
the fight against AIDS, but the man behind that success
says the country of 63 million has returned to the days
of ignorance and that the disease is making a deadly
comeback. 4-10-2005
Japan: Talking about men who won't wear condoms Why won't men wear condoms? Schoolgirls
have been coming into my clinic one after another
seeking prescriptions for the morning-after pill. When I
ask them why they didn't use protection, I get answers
like 'Well, my boyfriend usually uses it, but this time
he forgot.' 28-9-2005
Japan and extreme penetration: Doctors urge caution "This young woman
arrived at the hospital with a green pallor to her
face," recalls Masahiro Matsushima, a urologist at Tobo
University Hospital. "I could tell from her face right
away what her problem was.
24-9-2005
Sex aids for happier marriages in Malaysia The Malaysian state of Kelantan may be
orthodox in many ways - but not in matter of sex it
seems, official studies have shown. Sex-aids and
stimulants are more widely used in this Malay state than
any other in the country.
13-9-2005
Thailand's transgendered, MSM require culturally appropriate HIV targeted help Men who have
sex with men (MSM) in Thailand, who often do so with
transgendered men known as Katoey, do not perceive
themselves to be engaging in sex between men, and are
consequently requiring culturally appropriate targeted
prevention. 13-9-2005
Indian organizations struggle to remedy frightening sex ratio It is believed
that the Chinese kill over a million girls every year in
order to have a boy. It is also believed that Indians
are about to overtake the Chinese in a few years. With
an alarmingly adverse sex ratio of 933 women per
thousand men, which is the lowest in south Asia, Indians
have gained notoriety for selectively killing female
fetuses. 13-9-2005
Taiwan: Sperm extraction sparks controversy over legislation The controversy
surrounding the sperm extraction procedure from the body
of late Army company leader Sun Chi-hsiang yesterday
continued to occupy the center stage of public
attention. 13-9-2005
China: Teenage girl offers sex education to peers When 18-year-old Zhangshan prepared to
teach her classmates how to correctly use condoms, a
huge gust of laughter burst out in the classroom.
However, Zhangshan continued her class regardless and
finally completed it successfully.
9-9-2005
More Vietnamese get HIV from prostitutes Vietnam is estimated to have some 58,000
HIV carriers, who get the virus after having sex with
infected prostitutes, by the end of this year, up from
25,000 in late 2000. 9-9-2005
Dirt poor treats girls better than filthy rich in India The latest
figures released by Census 2001 dispel the belief that
poverty is responsible for gender-biased abortions and
show that the poor treat girls better than the rich.
3-9-2005
Trafficking of women, children on rise worldwide: UN Human trafficking is on the rise
worldwide, with millions of women and children ending up
as sex slaves, beggars and mine laborers each year, UN
officials said on Tuesday.
1-9-2005
Yemeni tourism: Focus on lust and corruption Recently, Yemen has seen a dramatic rise
in the number of visitors flocking to spend their summer
vacation in this culturally rich country. Tourists from
many countries have arrived in this surge, including
those from Asia, Europe and Yemen's 'Gulf State'
neighbors. 31-8-2005
Soviet ghosts haunt Kazakh AIDS policy As midnight approaches on Sina Street in
Almaty, one of Kazakhstan's main cities, groups of young
female sex workers stand in the shadows by small hotels,
giggling, swigging beer from bottles and smoking.
31-8-2005
New pregnancy kit makes Asia jittery A new blood test that enables expectant
mothers to find out the gender of their baby as early as
five weeks into the pregnancy is sending jitters around
the world.
Russians abandon HIV-positive patients Thousands of children born to
HIV-positive mothers are being abandoned, new data
shows. The women themselves face widespread
discrimination, even from doctors who often deny
treatment and betray confidentiality.
24-8-2005
Female foeticide must stop, says Indian PM Observing that empowerment of women must
begin even before birth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said the "unacceptable crime" of female foeticide using
modern technology must be stopped.
24-8-2005
Seven billion in seven years Despite fertility declines in most
countries and reduced life expectancy due to the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in some African nations, the global
population will reach 6.5 billion people by the end of
this year and should hit seven billion by 2012.
24-8-2005
China says sex ratio not related to policy A Chinese official said Wednesday that
China's birth ratio of 100 girls to nearly 120 boys was
not related to the national family planning policy.
24-8-2005
US: Lawsuit challenges 'anti-prostitution' clause in AIDS prevention The most
recent move by the Bush administration has been to
require that international groups providing family
planning and HIV prevention activities certify that they
have a policy "explicitly opposing prostitution." That
policy has been challenged in a lawsuit filed against
the U.S. Agency for International Development.
18-8-2005
India: The road to ruin Auntie Noorie, a middle-aged eunuch from
the hijra transgender community of Chennai - the huge
south Indian port-city - is in great demand. For the
loneliest of India's lonely hearts, there's no better
matchmaker. 17-8-2005
Bush hurts women when he nixes funds for UN As she waits for
word on whether President Bush will fund the UN
Population Fund this year, Pat Orvis lays out her
reasons for the United States to make good on all its UN
obligations. The arrears, she says, cost women their
health and their lives.
17-8-2005
Over 100 groups urge Bush to enforce anti-prostitution policies In a joint
letter to President Bush, over 100 women's, health and
policy organizations have urged him to protect victims
of human trafficking and "stand firm on legislation and
policies that require groups receiving certain federal
grants to provide written assurance that they oppose
prostitution."
16-8-2005
Japan: Population of males falls for 1st time Japan's
population stood at 126,869,397 as of March 31, up a
mere 0.04 percent from a year earlier, with the male
population down 10,680 - the first yearly decline since
the survey was introduced in 1968.
1-8-2005
