Archives > July 2007
Hong Kong Opens China's First Gay Centre
PinkNews.co.uk - UK, July 31, 2007
A new chapter in the slow opening up of China started this month with the opening of a new social support centre for the gay community in Hong Kong.
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Sex Education: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Hindustan Times - India, July 30, 2007
In a society in which innuendo and allusion are the preferred modes of communicating sexual desire even for the adults, the notion that adolescents are also sexual beings predictably makes us squirm. Whether it is as parents or as teachers, as aunts or uncles, many of us would rather push this possibility underground into our secretive subconscious.
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Condom-inium!
Hindustan Times - India, July 29, 2007
If you ask Ashok Row Kavi, gay rights activist and resource person of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), about the biggest stumbling block on the road to condom usage, he says: “Men.” Explanation: “All they are bothered about is pleasure; condoms, they feel, reduce pleasure, so they don’t want to use them.”
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New Possibilities
Hindu - Chennai, India, July 29, 2007
As a general rule, young, effeminate village boys are picked up and trained by masters in highly exaggerated female mannerisms, which very soon grow to be the hallmark of these individuals. A good number continue to revel in their transgender mannerisms, and end up confused.
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Japanese Gay Woman Battles for Upper House Seat
Reuters India - Mumbai, India, July 29, 2007
Kanako Otsuji, backed by the main opposition Democratic Party, said she hoped her campaign would raise awareness of gay rights in a society where many homosexuals remain in the closet.
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Now, Youngsters Want to Talk About Sex in the Open
CNN-IBN - New Delhi, India, July 27, 2007
The Information and Broadcast Ministry may have banned advertisements of underwear brands directing the channels to be careful but as far as youngsters go, they want it in the open.
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Central China Province to Introduce Compulsory HIV Tests at Recreation Venues
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, July 27, 2007
Central China's Hunan Province is planning to make HIV tests compulsory for people working at recreation venues in an effort to arrest the rise in HIV/AIDS cases in the province.
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Undercover in SE Asia's Brothels
BBC News - UK, July 27, 2007
Reporter Thembi Mutch spent seven weeks in Thailand and Cambodia, finding out what life is like for children trafficked into the region's thriving sex industry.
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Unfair Rules of a Numbers Game
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta, India, July 26, 2007
The government’s directives on foeticide and abortion betray the State’s desire to seize control over women’s bodies, writes Nivedita Menon.
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More Sex Education Needed in China-Expert
China Daily - China, July 26, 2007
Chinese students need more intensive sex education "not only for the prevention of HIV but also for personal health," UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot was quoted as saying last week on a visit to China.
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E China Province Passes Amendment to Sexual Harassment Law
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, July 26, 2007
The Zhejiang provincial legislative body on Thursday passed an amendment to its implementation of the country''s law to protect women''s rights, stipulating that, from September 1, a woman can file a sexual harassment lawsuit against a man if he oversteps the line in conversation or during online chat or via text message.
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Papua Considers 'Chipping' People with HIV/AIDS
Jakarta Post - Jakarta, Indonesia, July 24, 2007
The Papua Legislative Council is deliberating a regulation that would see microchips implanted in people living with HIV/AIDS so authorities could monitor their actions.
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Pushing the Boundaries Online: Insight into Gay Life
China Daily - China, July 24, 2007
A lot can change in six years. At least that's the experience of Didier Zheng, an openly gay Chinese man who just wrapped up a stint hosting China's first Internet television show devoted to addressing homosexual issues.
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Expert: Chinese More Open to Sex
China Daily - China, July 24, 2007
Claims that approximately 25 percent of Chinese adults had multiple sex partners in 2006 by Pan Suiming, director of Institute of Sexuality and Gender at Renmin University of China, has prompted society to open debate over whether China has become morally corrupted.
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Use Law as Gender Mender
Hindustan Times – India, July 23, 2007
Of late, there has been a spate of complaints of sexual harassment in Delhi University. In the absence of legislation, the Supreme Court issued guidelines to enforce gender justice at the workplace. These guidelines emerged in a writ petition on the Vishakha and Ors vs State of Rajasthan and Ors case, filed in the wake of an incident of alleged gangrape of a social worker in Rajasthan.
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Sex Toys No More Novelty
Malaysia Star – Malaysia, July 21, 2007
Chinese authorities have an open policy on the production, retailing and possession of sex toys which they consider important to enhance the sexual life of couples.
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Troops Sexual Exploits of Bandipora Women
Kashmir Media Service - Islamabad, Pakistan, July 21, 2007
In occupied Kashmir, the so-called State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the puppet regime to submit a factual report on petitions about the Indian Army’s sexual exploitation of young women, particularly school girls, under the garb of the controversial Operation Sadhbhavna in a village of Bandipora district.
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Trust Man or Condom?
Times of India – India, July 21, 2007
Union minister Renuka Chowdhury’s statement that the Indian male cannot be trusted with sexual fidelity has sparked off a debate in the nation.
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Editorial: Let's Talk About Sex
Times of India – India, July 18, 2007
A nation with a population in excess of a billion is clearly not abstaining from sex. But India refuses to speak about the birds and bees openly.
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85 Percent Chinese Concerned by Gender Imbalance: Survey
China Daily – China, July 18, 2007
Out of 2,603 respondents from 29 provinces and municipalities in China, as much as 88 percent of people from rural areas said they were worried about the extent to which males outnumbered females.
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UNAIDS Chief Urges More Sex Education on Chinese Students to Shun AIDS
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, July 18, 2007
Chinese students need more intensive sex education "not only for the prevention of HIV but also for personal health", UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot said Tuesday in his review of China's anti-AIDS work.
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Made-to-Order Condoms Hit with Sex Workers
Economic Times – India, July 18, 2007
While a vibrating condom launched to promote condom usage raked up a controversy in Madhya Pradesh, a newly-launched paan-flavoured condom customised for commercial sex workers is slowly gaining popularity in the city’s red light areas.
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NACO to Review Sex Education Module
The Hindu – New Delhi, July 18, 2007
The National AIDS Control Organisation will shortly set up a task force to review its module on sex education. This follows protests in some States over the ‘explicit’ nature of education that was being imparted in the schools, based on the module prepared by the NACO and UNAIDS.
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Activists Outraged at Condom Comment
NDTV.com - New Delhi, India, July 17, 2007
A remark by Renuka Chowdhary, Union Minister for Women and Child Development saying men can't be trusted and women should ensure their partners use condoms, has left activists outraged.
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Indonesia Launches First SMS Sex
The Age - Melbourne, Australia, July 17, 2007
Singapore's renowned "Dr. Love" on Tuesday launched an SMS sex education campaign in Indonesia, the first of its kind in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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Chinese TV Told to Ban Sexist Ads
Times of India – India, July 17, 2007
Chinese television channels should ban sexist and sexually suggestive adverts during the summer vacation to protect children, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday, citing experts and parents.
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'Pink Indonesia', a Country Within the Country
Jakarta Post - Jakarta, Indonesia, July 17, 2007
Very few people talk about them. To most, it's a subject best left alone. To some they are an embarrassment, to others an oddity and to many of the faithful, they are there to be condemned. They are Indonesia's homosexuals.
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NIRRH Develops Novel Microbicide with Anti-HIV Properties
Hindu - Chennai, India, July 16, 2007
National Institute of Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH) has developed a novel broad spectrum microbicide which has the property to prevent HIV infection.
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NHRC Guidelines for Speedy Disposal of Child Rape Cases
Zee News - Noida, India, July 16, 2007
The National Human Rights Commission today issued guidelines for speedy disposal of child rape cases, recommending that the investigation be completed within three months and the trial be carried out in a child-friendly atmosphere.
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Kumari of Bhaktapur Deprived of Status
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu, Nepal, July 15, 2007
A 10-year-old Nepalese girl was stripped of her title as a Living Goddess recently because she traveled overseas to promote a documentary about the centuries-old tradition.
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Storm in the B-Cup
Times of India – India, July 15, 2007
What women choose to wear reflects the culture surrounding them. But women too influence the culture that shapes masculine and feminine ideals.
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Sexual Predator Arrested
Times of India – India, July 14, 2007
Posing as a human rights activist and a social worker, Ramesh, collected donations on the pretext of providing free education and shelter to poor and needy children. Ramesh now stands accused for sexually assaulting minor girls.
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'Quiet' Sexual Revolution in Vietnam
Times of India – India, July 14, 2007
A ‘quiet’ sexual revolution is unfolding in Vietnam, an intensely family-oriented society, which holds strong traditions of women being married by their mid-20s and having children.
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Talking About Sex by Signs
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi, Vietnam, July 14, 2007
For the first time since the school for hearing-impaired children was built in Vietnam in 1975, a set of signs about reproductive health is being compiled by the World Population Fund and is scheduled to be put into use in early 2008.
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Government to Monitor Pregnancies, Abortions
Economic Times – India, July 13, 2007
According to a report, India plans a national mandatory registry of pregnancies and abortions to stem selective abortions of girl fetuses.
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Lesbian Couple Go Underground
NDTV.com - New Delhi, India, July 12, 2007
A lesbian couple in Delhi has gone underground after they declared their wedding on Sunday. Their families have disowned them and efforts are on to resolve them though the police have failed.
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Powered by People
Hindustan Times – India, July 12, 2007
World Population Day has just gone by minus the usual doomsday predictions that India will soon go under with the weight of a billion plus. This is a welcome sign of maturity and, dare we hope, an understanding that, channelised correctly, a large population is an asset.
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Chinese Roll Up for Condom Fashion Show
Reuters India - Mumbai, India, July 11, 2007
Condoms of all shapes and sizes were on display at a Beijing fashion show on Wednesday featuring dresses, hats and even lollipops made of the said item.
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Internet 'Meetings' Linked to Pregnancy
China Daily – China, July 10, 2007
Zhang Zhengrong, a doctor at No 411 Hospital who oversees the city's first-aid hotline for pregnant teens, said 46 percent of the more than 20,000 teenage girls who called the hotline over the past two years said they had had sex with boys they met on the internet.
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Global: Sexuality a Human Right for HIV Positive Women
Plus News – Nairobi, July 9, 2007
Abstinence or a sexually active life? The dilemma, faced daily by HIV-positive women around the world, was discussed by delegates attending the first global conference on women and AIDS, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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'Word' of Importance
Times of India – India, July 9, 2007
Some schools in the city have taken the initiative to introduce sex education. What more, it has received good response from parents too.
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No Sex Education, Say Uttar Pradesh Teachers
Hindustan Times – India, July 9, 2007
Uttar Pradesh is all set to introduce sex education in its schools from Class 9, but teachers have threatened to burn the books, saying the material goes against Indian culture.
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Pink Pride
Indian Express - New Delhi, India, July 8, 2007
The Gay Delhi Sunday Social, is a gathering of a handful of urban, middle-class and upper middle-class homosexual and bisexual men of the capital that every week stakes a claim—to visibility, to a social space.
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Deoband Says Co-Education 'Unlawful'
Times of India – India, July 6, 2007
A fatwa issued by leading Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband has ruled that co-education is "unlawful" as the system has given rise to "a number of evils" in colleges and universities.
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Novotel will Apologise to Transvestite
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok, Thailand, July 6, 2007
After a week-long boycott campaign by gay networks, Novotel Siam Square will today formally apologise to Sutthirat Simsiri-wong, a transvestite who was barred entry to a nightclub at the hotel two weeks ago.
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Sculpture of Clinch Couple Withdrawn
Times of India - India, July 6, 2007
In one more case of art censorship, a 73-year-old artist exhibiting at the Jehangir Art Gallery has been asked to withdraw one of his pieces, a marble sculpture of a couple in a clinch.
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Woman Strips to Protest Against Dowry
NDTV.com - India, July 5, 2007
In a desperate act, a woman in Rajkot was forced to protest against dowry demands and harassment by stripping down to her under garments.
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Women Hate Distorted Media Depictions
China Daily - China, July 5, 2007
The findings of a major online survey on women's attitudes toward the media received 40,000 responses and was conducted by the All-China Women's Federation in March-April. It is the largest ever by sociologists to gain an insight into Chinese women's attitudes on gender perceptions.
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No Kidding, Sex is Safer these Days
Hindustan Times - India, July 5, 2007
The 2007 Face of Global Sex Report, prepared by Durex Network, says today’s teenagers are smarter and play it safer than their parents did. “Those aged between 16 and 19 years having first sex are at least eight times more likely to have used contraception for their sexual debut than people now aged 65 years or over,” the report says.
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Lesbian Marriage Falls Apart in Punjab, One Booked
IBN Live - Batala, India, July 5, 2007
A marriage between two girls near this Punjab town went terribly wrong on Thursday with the 'boy' in the relationship slitting her wrists in an attempted suicide bid, but ending up being booked by the police.
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'State of Pakistan's Children': 'Four Children Abused in Pakistan Daily’
Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan, July 5, 2007
Child abuse is on the rise and around four children are sexually abused everyday in Pakistan according to a report compiled by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC).
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Chinese Keep Virginity Until 22, Worldwide Survey Says
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, July 5, 2007
The Durex report surveyed more than 26,000 people from 26 countries and found the global average age for first-time sex had risen from under 16 to over 17 since last year.
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Shock and Awful?
Hindu Business Line - India, July 5, 2007
The TV commercial for GenX Undergarments was among the 19 complaints upheld by the Advertising Standards Council of India’s Consumer Complaints Council (ASCI) for the January-March period this year. The council heard 32 complaints, including those of ads with double meaning, racism, and bias.
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It's Time to Redefine Obscenity
Times of India - India, July 4, 2007
By labelling sex as vulgar and obscene, we are constantly driving it underground. The only beneficiary of this is hardcore criminals. What's vulgar? What's obscene? And why do we always relate these words to sex?
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A Photographic Celebration of Gay Pride
PinkNews.co.uk - UK, July 4, 2007
An new online exhibition of photos of LGBT celebrations from cities around the world celebrates people's pride in their sexuality and identity.
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Chinese Study Identifies 'Comfort Women' Abused by Japanese Soldiers
International Herald Tribune - France, July 3, 2007
Japanese soldiers forced girls as young as 12 years old into sexual slavery during and beyond World War II, according to a report by two Chinese legal groups.
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A Plague in Paradise
Times Online - UK, July 1, 2007
Sold to a brothel by her family as a toddler, Yorchi Hong Nhea is one of 30,000 sex slaves in Cambodia. Few clients these days are western sex tourists: most are Cambodian men. Three decades after the Khmer Rouge devastated the country there is a surge in violent sexual exploitation.
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Sex Reconstruction Surgery on Transgenders
Chennai Online - Chennai, India, July 2, 2007
For the first time in the country, a government hospital in Tamil Nadu will perform sex reconstruction surgery on transgenders this week, marking an end to their ordeal at the hands of quacks.
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Flesh Trade Moves to City Outskirts
Deccan Herald - Bangalore, India, July 1, 2007
Agents and commercial sex workers involved in mobile and house prostitution in the City are slowly moving towards its outskirts because of regular raids conducted by Women and Narcotics Squad of City Crime Bureau.
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Rainbow Films in Wet Weather
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta, India, July 1, 2007
Sappho for Equality and Pratyay Gender Trust organised an LGBT film festival at Max Mueller Bhavan, billed the first in the city, the Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival notwithstanding. Then there was a book launch by Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre.
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