Archives > June 2006
Study: Teens Becoming Sexually Active Earlier
Manila Standard Today - Philippines, June 30, 2006
Filipinos who first had sex in their teens did it as early as elementary school and most did it during high school, a study says.
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Education Defends Proposal to Include Sex Subject in School Curriculum
Sun.Star - Philippines, June 30, 2006
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday maintained that sex education will address pre-marital sex among the youth.
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Commentary: Progress on Gay Rights Leaves Politicians in the Dust
CNN - USA, June 30, 2006
While protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans are stalled in Congress, corporate America continues to surge ahead.
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3 Million Youngsters Engage in Premarital Sex – DepEd
INQ7.net – Philippines, June 29, 2006
More than three million youngsters, or some 20 percent of the country's 15.1 million people aged 15 to 24 years old, engage in premarital sex, an education official said on Thursday.
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Top IAS Officer Held for Sex Abuse
GreaterKashmir.com - Srinigar, India, June 29, 2006
Iqbal Khanday, the top bureaucrat in-charge of state’s planning, was arrested by CBI sleuths on Thursday evening held in connection with the infamous sexual abuse case.
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Pentagon Says Homosexuality Not a Mental Disorder
Reuters India - Mumbai, India, June 29, 2006
After a 1996 Pentagon document placing homosexuality among a list of "certain mental disorders" came to light this month, the American Psychiatric Association and a handful of lawmakers asked the Defense Department to change its view.
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Infertile by Choice
Sun2Surf - Petaling Jaya,Selangor, Malaysia, June 29, 2006
The birth rate is falling but there is no increase in contraceptive usage. Such being the case, the concern is that there may be more unwanted pregnancies which may lead to illegal abortions and affect the mother's health.
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India and Homosexuality
India eNews.com - Haryana, India, June 28, 2006
Homosexuality is another one of those topics that certainly needs to be reviewed in today’s society. Ever since the NAS Foundation filed a Public Interest Litigation on the issue to consider legalization of homosexuality in the country, it has become a talking point in all social circles.
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Equal but Inherently Unequal
Kolkata Newsline - New Delhi, India, June 27, 2006
At a seminar titled ‘Queering Justice’ organized by the NGO, Sappho for Equality at Kala Kunj, various speakers including lawyers discussed the imperative need to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
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We Have All the Conditions that Could Trigger an Epidemic
OhmyNews International - South Korea, June 27, 2006
The Philippines is rife with the ingredients for an AIDS disaster: an active sex industry that draws foreign tourists, with the dominant Roman Catholic church's stance against contraceptives contributing to relatively low condom use.
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Gay Indian Prince Disowned
Gay.com UK – UK, June 26, 2006
An openly gay prince in India, who works for an HIV/AIDS organisation in Gujarat, has been publicly disowned by his family.
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Sex education must for tackling AIDS
Chennai Online - Chennai, India, June 26, 2006
Sex education to youngsters cannot be ignored while engaged in tackling HIV/AIDS in India, an official of the US embassy said today.
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Less Anatomy, More Morality in Sex Education Efforts
China Daily – China, June 26, 2006
Local education officials have called for a rethink in sex education efforts, shifting away from textbook-based anatomy teaching and focusing more on morals and relationships.
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Number of Older Brothers can Influence Men’s Sexuality
Hindustan Times – India, June 26, 2006
A new research has found that the number older brothers a man has, may influence his sexual orientation.
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Faking Homosexuality to Obtain UK Visa
NDTV.com - New Delhi, India, June 26, 2006
Thousands of people come to Jalandhar Passport Office everyday wanting to go to England. Their applications are generally crammed with all sorts of reasons for traveling to the UK. Among the latest of the reasons is gay marriages.
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Malaysia Likely to Outlaw Gender Selection Test
MedIndia – India, June 26, 2006
Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek has said that the country could be restricting a fertilization test that allows parents to select their baby's sex.
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YUVA (Youth Unite for Victory on AIDS) Programme to be Launched
Press Information Bureau - New Delhi, India, June 26, 2006
A nationwide YUVA programme launch will witness among other things a curtain raiser on national quiz programme on Youth and Sexual Health by Siddarth Basu.
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Sex Education in Schools: Course from Next Year
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia, June 26, 2006
A course on sexual behaviour may be taught in primary and secondary schools next year. The issues likely to be tackled will include human reproduction, marriage and sexually-transmitted diseases.
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Industry Players Welcome Stiffer Licensing Rules for Massage Parlours
Channel News Asia – Singapore, June 25, 2006
Tighter licensing regulations for massage parlours could help repair the image of the industry. This is what industry players believe and so it is a move that they welcome.
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Govt Firm on Tabling Bill on HIV/AIDS Tests
Navhind Times - Panjim, India, June 25, 2006
The government has re-confirmed its decision to table a bill in the assembly making the HIV/AIDS test compulsory for the couples desiring to get married in the state.
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Rape Verdicts Depend on Judicial Perception
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, June 25, 2006
The success of the government's aim to make laws relating to rape more stringent largely depends on the judicial perception of the gravity of the offence.
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Rape Verdicts Depend on Judicial Perception
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, June 25, 2006
The success of the government's aim to make laws relating to rape more stringent largely depends on the judicial perception of the gravity of the offence.
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Prelate Slams inclusion of Sex Education in Public School
Sun.Star – Philippines, June 24, 2006
According to the chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Family and Life (ECFL), ‘Sexuality must be taught in the context of the marital union not as a mere subject in a classroom’.
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Finally, Out of the Closet
Hindustan Times – India, June 24, 2006
Audiences have matured, with homosexuality ceasing to be a shocker, unlike the 'experimental and waking up track' in Deepa Mehta's Fire (1997).
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Balingit: Just do it!
Sun.Star - Philippines, June 23, 2006
It would be horrifying to imagine that one day the only option left to pursue to address the problem of overpopulation would be to affect a “one-child-policy” like the one done in China — a policy that produced dreadful stories of forced abortion and adoption.
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Singapore Conducts Largest Online Sexual Health Survey
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, June 23, 2006
An online sexual health survey targeting Singaporean women in their late teens to early 30s is just under way, according to Channel NewsAsia report on Thursday.
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Playing for the Other Side
Bangkok Post – Thailand, June 23, 2006
A pair of new Thai films touch on the subject of homosexuality.
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Quest of Sexuality
Screen Weekly – India, June 23, 2006
A film by Amol Palekar, ‘Quest’ explores many facets of sexuality, delves into the various layers of human relationships and is set in a very contemporary background. It talks about the fast-paced lives of professionals today.
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Young Girls, Older Boyfriends & Sex
WebMD - USA, June 22, 2006
In their study, Marin and colleagues found that seventh grade girls who have had a serious boyfriend their own age are three times as likely to have sex by ninth grade as their less precocious classmates.
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Four-Day Conference to Highlight South Asian Gay Issues
Synapse - San Francisco, USA, June 22, 2006
Planned so that it coincides with Gay Pride weekend, the DesiQ 2006 conference will draw approximately 100 delegates — artists and activists, students and professionals alike from across the country and even as far away as India and Sri Lanka, according to organizer Rakesh Modi.
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Local Adult Toy Trade Show Attracts Canadian Educators
Shanghaiist - Shanghai, China, June 21, 2006
“Canadian sex educators will visit Shanghai’s sexual-health expo in August to seek partnership for publication of foreign sex-education material”.
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Pentagon Lists Homosexuality as Disorder
China Daily – China, June 21, 2006
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.
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Women ‘Framed’
Afternoon Dispatch & Courier - Bombay, India, June 21, 2006
‘Myrrh’ means is a substance used in the East in perfumery and incense. “The word is used to explore the ties that bind a woman”, says Geetu Hinduja of Art Edge, which is holding the exhibition in collaboration with the gallery.
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Men with Sexual Health Woes Told to Seek Help
Daily Express – Malaysia, June 20, 2006
More Malaysian men are suffering from sexual health problems, a trend made worse by their reluctance to seek medical help.
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Phallus Representing Shiva Worshipped in Vietnam Indian Temple
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, June 20, 2006
Ho Chi Minh City is home to a well-preserved Hindu temple which is over 100 years old.
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SpotLight: ‘Third Gender’ Living in Legal Limbo
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia, June 20, 2006
They are the non-entities of society. Their misery is deepened by the reluctance of the authorities to recognise them as transsexuals. Yet they cling to the hope that society will one day accept them for who they are.
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Education Suspends ‘Sex Lessons’ in Schools
Manila Standard Today – Philippines, June 19, 2006
The uncertainty over moral implications of sex education has prompted education officials to stop the distribution of materials on premarital sex to public high schools pending a dialogue between the government and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
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Dream Girls, Real Lives
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu, Nepal, June 19, 2006
There really is no justification for legalising one kind of exploitative structure, and criminalising another. As women's groups have said in defence of Mumbai's bar-girls, they will lose their source of survival if their profession is outlawed. And who will provide them with other sources of livelihood?
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Philippine Gov't Abandons Sex Education Program Due to Opposition
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, June 19, 2006
The Philippine government was forced to abandon a controversial sex education program for high school students after the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church expressed opposition to it, a Filipino official said Monday.
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Misstaken Identity
Times of India – India, June 17, 2006
’Only now is the Indian woman experimenting with and discovering her sexuality. It's funny that we use sex to sell anything from cars to vacuum cleaners but couldn't talk about it,’ says director-actor Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal.
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AIDS Treatment: IMA Takes Initiative to Train Doctors
The Hindu - Chennai, India, June 17, 2006
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has come up with a physicians training initiative aimed at equipping doctors to handle cases of HIV/AIDS.
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VIEW: Sex and Sensibility - Saleem H Ali
Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan, June 17, 2006
There was an observation that in most Western countries women can walk around without being stared at as sexual objects. However, at least 50,000 bachelor retirees from Europe and North America have permanently moved to areas such as Thailand and Cambodia giving rise to the term “sexpatriate”.
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Trading Children
Frontline - India, June 17, 2006
The proposed Offences Against Children Bill, 2005, attempts to address the legal loopholes through which child traffickers slip.
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When the Husband Turns Predator
Times of India – India, June 17, 2006
In the United Kingdom, the government is preparing a draft stating that rape of a wife by the husband will be considered as heinous a crime as gang rape. In India, where this is a daily occurrence in many homes, the law is not yet as stringent.
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Sexuality Education Pushed
Visayan Daily Star - Dumaguete City, Philippines, June 15, 2006
The Department of Education was urged yesterday by adolescent reproductive health advocates in Negros Occidental to start implementing sexuality education in Western Visayas, and to include it among the pilot areas in institutionalizing ARH through lifeskills-based education.
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Childbirth Problems for Migrant Workers
China Daily - China, June 14, 2006
Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Population and Family Planning yesterday announced the results of a two-year study into the sexual health and wellbeing of migrant workers in the capital of South China's Guangdong Province.
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Espina: All About Sex
Sun.Star – Philippines, June 15, 2006
Once again, a heated debate is going on whether it is proper to incorporate sex education in the school curriculum, at least among high school students.
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Children Panel to be Set up Soon
Navhind Times - Panjim, India, June 15, 2006
The government will soon set up a national commission for children to protect their rights and ensure their welfare and holistic development.
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Sexual Shenanigans of Guangzhou Migrant Workers Revealed
Interfax.cn - China, June 14, 2006
Migrant workers in Guangzhou regularly indulge in outdoor sex, according to a new government health survey.
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Lots of Migrant Workers Lack Healthy Sex Life
China Daily - China, June 14, 2006
More than 30 percent of married migrant women in Guangzhou have diseased reproductive systems, and 31.89 percent of single migrant women don't know what a venereal disease is, Southcn.com reported Wednesday.
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Workplace Violence Increasing Worldwide: ILO
Times of India - India, June 14, 2006
Violence at work, ranging from bullying and mobbing to threats by psychologically unstable co-workers, sexual harassment and homicide, has reached epidemic levels in some countries, says a new study of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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Reproductive Health Policy Can be Won at Local Level
Philippine Information Agency - Philippines, June 14, 2006
As reproductive health policy is hard to achieve at the national level, so the battle must go down at the local level.
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Essays on Gender Issues
Hindu - Chennai, India, June 13, 2006
The book ‘Capabilities, Freedom and Equality’ is a valuable collection of articles, based on Amartya Sen's concepts and ideas, applied mainly to gender issues.
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Guru Absolved of Harassment Charges
Times of India - India, June 13, 2006
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) on Monday absolved state health secretary DS Guru of "sexual harassment" and "human rights violation" charges made against him.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Key to Achieving MDGs
Digital Opportunity Channel - New Delhi, India, June 13, 2006
Addressing sexual and reproductive health is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, reveals a new report today released by the UN Millennium Project at the Global Health Council’s 33rd Annual International Conference on Global Health.
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Sartaj Condemns Sexual Assault on Rajouri Girl
GreaterKashmir.com - Srinigar, India, June 12, 2006
Jammu Kashmir Freedom Movement (JKFM) general secretary and spokesman Muhammad Sharief Sartaj has lambasted state government for its failure to stop the Human Rights abuses in the state.
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Education Justifies ‘Sex Lessons’
Manila Standard Today - Philippines, June 12, 2006
United Nations Family Planning Association country representative Dr. Zahidul Huque said the integration of sex education in the subjects of high school students would be helpful in solving the reproductive health concerns of adolescents who are increasingly exposed to risky behavior, like early sexual activity.
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Where’s the Honour?
Financial Express - Bombay, India, June 11, 2006
Honour killings are a crime nor just against an individual, but also against humanity. However, Honour: Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women debunks the theory that ‘crime of honour’ is a ‘Muslim phenomenon’.
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Bi is the New
Hindustan Times - India, June 11, 2006
For some time now, homosexuality and Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code - and even the American President’s anti-gay stand in God’s Own Country - have been burning ‘issues’ and ‘concerns’. There’s activism involved; people fight for rights.
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CBCP Says No to Sex Education
Journal Online - Manila, Philippines, June 10, 2006
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines yesterday strongly opposed the integration of sex education in major subjects in high school.
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At Large : Just Say No - to Sex?
INQ7.net - Philippines, June 9, 2006
Whether we like it or not, young Filipinos are engaging in sex before marriage. The Young Adult Fertility Survey 3, conducted by the University of the Philippines’ Population Institute in 2002, finds that 4.9 million Filipinos age 15-24, had engaged in pre-marital sex.
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On the Fringe
Hindu Business Line - India, June 9, 2006
In some cases, we find that the women experience a lifecycle of violence, from childhood, through adolescence to adulthood.
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Catholic Church Opposes Plan to Teach Condom Use in Schools
Antara - Indonesia, June 9, 2006
The Catholic Church in the Philippines on Friday deplored a plan by the Education department to teach high school students the use of condoms and other contraceptives.
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Police Chief Offers Help Over Sex Change Case
The Standard - Hong Kong, June 8, 2006
Front page media reports suggesting that a transsexual police officer is facing discrimination at work has led Commissioner of Police Dick Lee Ming- kwai to offer his work force access to clinical psychologists.
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The Prejudice Against Gays
Manila Standard Today - Philippines, June 8, 2006
AS US President George W. Bush pushes for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages, Canada reassesses its existing policy declaring them legal.
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Police Chief Offers Help Over Sex Change Case
The Standard - Hong Kong, June 8, 2006
Front page media reports suggesting that a transsexual police officer is facing discrimination at work has led Commissioner of Police Dick Lee Ming- kwai to offer his work force access to clinical psychologists.
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Sexual Assault Survey Sparks Controversy
China Daily - China, June 7, 2006
An Internet survey asking web surfers what actress they would most like to sexually assault has sparked controversy over media ethics in Hong Kong, according to a Xinhua report.
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Nepal: War Fails to Protect Women Trafficking
Los Angeles Chronicle - CA, USA, June 5, 2006
Poverty is definitely linked to trafficking but it is not the only reason. It exacerbates an already desperate situation caused by the maoists' war.
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Gay Marriage is "Eclipse of God" - Vatican
Reuters India - Mumbai, India, June 6, 2006
The Vatican said on Tuesday that gay marriage, abortion, lesbians wanting to bear children and a host of other practices it sees as threats to the traditional family were signs of "the eclipse of God”.
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‘Boxer’ Wrestles With Transvestism
New University - CA, USA, June 5, 2006
In the film “Beautiful Boxer,” director Ekachai Uekrongtham approaches the controversial issue of transvestism in a very unique way. Based on the true story, the plot follows the journey of a sensitive young man named Nong Toom (Asanee Suwan) who ends up literally and figuratively fighting to fulfill his dream for a gender reassignment surgery.
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British Academics Flay Husain Exhibition Closure
NewKerala.com - Kerala, India, June 5, 2006
Leading British academics have condemned the forced closure of noted Indian artist M.F. Husain's exhibition and criticised Hindu groups in Britain for putting pressure on the organisers.
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Who’s Rude, Who’s Being a Prude
Malaysia Star – Malaysia, June 4, 2006
StarMag gathered eight people at a roundtable discussion of the topic of the day: what constitutes indecent behaviour in public. CHIN MUI YOON reports excerpts from the fascinating and wide-ranging conversation that ensued.
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On-Line HIV/AIDS Control Training Debuts
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi, Vietnam, June 4, 2006
An on-line training programme on HIV/AIDS control for medical doctors and experts, the first of its kind so far in Viet Nam, has been launched in Vietnam.
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Sex Knowledge Among Poor Adolescents Raised
Financial Express.bd – Bangladesh, June 3, 2006
Knowledge on reproductive health among more than 100,000 adolescent boys and girls in 17 districts and four metropolitan cities has been raised, relevant sources confirmed.
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Nations Resist New Financial Commitments on AIDS
Reuters India - Mumbai, India, June 3, 2006
A major U.N. meeting on AIDS strategy on Friday fell short of concrete financial commitments but recognized the growing spread of the disease among women and their right to protect themselves.
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UN Body to Set Up Advisory Committee on Sexual Exploitation
Zee News - Noida, India, June 3, 2006
The United Nations World Committee on Tourism Ethics (WCTE) has decided to set up an executive committee of the task force against sexual exploitation of children through tourism to advise from time to time on the issue.
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1 Out of 10 Pinays Abused by Hubby, BF
Sun.Star – Philippines, June 2, 2006
At least 2.16 million Filipino women today, or nine percent of their total population, were at one point victims of violence, and one out of 10 of them have been abused by loved ones and relatives.
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National Assembly Ponders Draft Laws, Appraisal Reports
Viet Nam News - Hanoi, Vietnam, June 1, 2006
National Assembly delegates yesterday examined the draft law on gender equality and heard an appraisal report on the draft. They also looked at some other proposed laws and listened to their appraisal reports.
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Annan Tells Leaders to Help Prostitutes on AIDS
China Daily - China, June 1, 2006
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged world leaders on Wednesday to protect the most marginal groups in society from AIDS - prostitutes, drug users and homosexuals.
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UN Ranks India Worst for AIDS
The Age - Melbourne, Australia, June 1, 2006
The UN report on the progress of the global epidemic estimates that 5.7 million Indians were infected at the end of last year, compared with an estimated 5.5 million South Africans.
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