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Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Music

    April 25, 2012

    Ring My Belle: Yacht Rock

    The sea is the new state fair.

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Cruises: The New State-Fair Circuit?

    Rachel Belle contributes the "Ring My Belle" segment to 97.3 KIRO FM's Ron and Don Show. Read her every day at MyNorthwest.com. By Rachel Belle Going on a cruise falls into the same category as stealing Sweet'N Low, wearing a muumuu, and hoarding 90210 action figures purchased on eBay: Things I'll ... More >>

  • Film

    October 12, 2011

    Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Now in Its 16th Queer Year

    Two history lessons at this year's festival.

  • Calendar

    October 12, 2011

    We Were Here

    Two history lessons at this year's festival.

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Gates Foundation Project Saves 100,000 Indians from HIV, Study Says

    ​Using counseling, outreach, needle exchanges, a whole lot of condoms and a whole lot of money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a project in India was able to stop more than 100,000 people from getting HIV.

  • News

    October 5, 2011

    Rick Perry: Miracle Faker

    Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    John Kroack, Anti-Abortion Activist, Barred from Planned Parenthood Clinic after Threatening Visit

    ​It's a been a rough year for Planned Parenthood, which nearly lost all of its federal funding due to anti-abortion grandstanding in Congress. So it's nice to see the feds stand up and protect the organization. Yesterday, a federal court ordered John Kroack, an anti-abortion activist who had c ... More >>

  • News

    February 23, 2011

    Planned Parenthood Pushback

    Why is the family-values party devaluing families?

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Today in Sex: MTV Does Abortion

    ​Last night MTV aired their answer to all the people who wonder why abortion never seem to come up during any episodes of their teen pregnancy reality shows, "16 and Pregnant" or "Teen Mom." Well, now it has. "No Easy Decision" showed Markai and James (unfortunately, two "16 and Pregnant" alum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Donnita and Scott Bassinger, Eugene Couple, Sue Doctor for Child Raising Costs After Failed Vasectomy

    ​Scott and Donnita Bassinger want the court to know that they're not filing this lawsuit because they don't love their son. It's more because he's just so damn expensive.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Halloween 2010: Watching the Coathangers, Dressed as a Pair of Ovaries

    Halloween almost didn't happen for me this year. For weeks, I was convinced I had come down with the costuming equivalent of writer's block: I couldn't come up with a single costume idea I could get really excited about until my friend Erik unearthed a giant pair of plush, glittery ovaries sewed b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Today in Sex: Celebrate Sex Education Week!

    ​I grew up in a nice liberal suburb of New Jersey where—along with math, science and existentialism—our public school provided a comprehensive, scare-tactic-based foundation in sex education. Along with the boring stuff like the mechanics of the act and pregnancy prevention, we were ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2010

    Seattle AIDS Walk

    ​I grew up in a nice liberal suburb of New Jersey where—along with math, science and existentialism—our public school provided a comprehensive, scare-tactic-based foundation in sex education. Along with the boring stuff like the mechanics of the act and pregnancy prevention, we were ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2010

    Happy Hour for Hope

    ​I grew up in a nice liberal suburb of New Jersey where—along with math, science and existentialism—our public school provided a comprehensive, scare-tactic-based foundation in sex education. Along with the boring stuff like the mechanics of the act and pregnancy prevention, we were ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2010

    Best of Seattle 2010: Ric Smith

    Best Hero to the Housebound

  • Diversions

    January 6, 2010

    Are You Out of Your Fucking Mind?

    Best Hero to the Housebound

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    University of Washington Study Holds Important Info for Herpes Sufferers--and Everyone Who Loves Them

    Worst Valentine's Day gift ever​No doubt that most of the U.S.' estimated 45 million Herpes sufferers take the counsel of their doctors and use condoms during sex even between outbreaks. But for those who don't and instead choose to throw their and their partner's future health on the craps ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Adrian Beltre Won't Take Cup Questions, Will Wear Cup

    ​Testicle jokes are funny, unless it's your testicle people are joking about. Then it can get old. At least, that's the experience of Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre. As you probably know, he's been on the Disabled List for a few weeks now with a contused testicle, the result of a bad-hop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Dine Out for Life This Thursday

    No need to worry about how much you spend, with nearly 150 restaurants participating in Lifelong AIDS Alliance's Dine Out For Life, there's an establishment for every budget. 30% of the proceeds of your omelet, cocktail, burger or five-course meal will go towards Lifelong AIDS Alliance and their var ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    Tonight's Show Suggestions

    Here is Arrington de Dionyso improvising in Baltimore. But it gives you a pretty damn good idea of what his solo stuff sounds like.  Whoooooa.Aids Wolf, Arrington de Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun), Midwife at Vera Project, 7:30 p.m., $9, all ages as usualArrington de Dionyso just put out a bizar ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2008

    AIDS Wolf

    Tuesday, November 25

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Local Church Starts "Embryo Adoption" Service

    Maria Lancaster with her daughter and Sen. Rick Santorum, an opponent of embryo research. Six years ago, Maria Lancaster took her first step to becoming pregnant by having a frozen embryo FedExed to a Bellevue clinic. Having been through three miscarriages, the Snoqualmie resident had contacted a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2008

    The Living End

    Maria Lancaster with her daughter and Sen. Rick Santorum, an opponent of embryo research. Six years ago, Maria Lancaster took her first step to becoming pregnant by having a frozen embryo FedExed to a Bellevue clinic. Having been through three miscarriages, the Snoqualmie resident had contacted a ... More >>

  • News

    February 20, 2008

    Seattle Times' Vagina Problem

    Why they said no to the Monologues' ad.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2008

    Comments of the Week: Feb. 18

    Why they said no to the Monologues' ad.

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    Times Won't Run Vagina Ad

    Why they said no to the Monologues' ad.

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2007

    What Population Crisis?

    Why they said no to the Monologues' ad.

  • News

    January 24, 2007

    Petting Zoo

    "I’m 44, still a virgin (no—it can’t be so!), and I’m not dead yet!"

  • Diversions

    January 17, 2007

    One in Six

    A dose of truth.

  • Diversions

    December 27, 2006

    The Disappearing Sex Drive

    A hard pill to swallow.

  • Diversions

    July 13, 2005

    Just Say 'Hell, Yeah!'

    A hard pill to swallow.

  • Arts

    March 2, 2005

    Deep Throats

    There's plenty to tell, and not all of it tawdry, in this X-rated account.

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    The Choice Is Ours

    There's plenty to tell, and not all of it tawdry, in this X-rated account.

  • Diversions

    March 3, 2004

    Wit & Wisdom (Neither From Me!)

    There's plenty to tell, and not all of it tawdry, in this X-rated account.

  • News

    June 11, 2003

    Im Not a Whore, but I Play One on TV

    The mainstreaming of gay culture leaves no room for realityand opens the door to shame-based HIV.

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE

    Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Here's why.

  • News

    June 26, 2002

    Boys Will Be Boys

    While lesbian activism is in the streets, gay men are out at play.

  • News

    May 29, 2002

    Of mice and misjudgment

    UW suspends research over violations of federal law by professor and his technologist.

  • Arts

    February 6, 2002

    Book briefs

    Conflicts among those fighting AIDS; another dark pearl from Joyce Carol Oates.

  • Diversions

    December 19, 2001

    Sores & bores

    Conflicts among those fighting AIDS; another dark pearl from Joyce Carol Oates.

  • News

    September 26, 2001

    Queer blood

    Controversy over the prohibition on blood donations from gay men surfaces after the terrorist attacks.

  • Arts

    September 19, 2001

    Dreamboat Annie down there

    A vagina dialogue with half a Heart.

  • Arts

    September 19, 2001

    Talking dirty, coming clean

    Playwright Eve Ensler says the secret word.

  • News

    July 18, 2001

    Leave no embryo behind!

    Dissecting the messy politics of stem-cell research.

  • Arts

    July 4, 2001

    Tricks of the trade

    A Seattle doctor infiltrates the best little whorehouse in Nevada.

  • Arts

    November 8, 2000

    Disc Man

    A Seattle doctor infiltrates the best little whorehouse in Nevada.

  • News

    October 11, 2000

    "What is really coercive (and corrosive) for society is its own complacency with irresponsible parenthood. First don't hurt the children."

    A Seattle doctor infiltrates the best little whorehouse in Nevada.

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Letters

    "Of course, one can't expect white-coat welfare recipients to admit that their breeding colonies and labs should be cut off from the federal tax dollar trough they feed from . . ."

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Shots in the DARK?

    Debate over new generation of vaccines gets prickly.

  • News

    August 12, 1998

    Fetal stealth

    Is 'partial-birth' I-694 a covert attack on all abortions?

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