• Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 6:10pm By Tim McElreavy
    A fight between two neighbors in Macomb County, Michigan, and the resulting criminal charges have led to necessary if belated soul-searching among the state's legislators and legal experts. On October 18, a quarrel between Daniel Allen and Winfred...
  • Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50pm By Margaret Wade
    Among those who shared comments with me about body fluids and spirituality since my last column, they spoke more of issues that are central to daily life than about sacred sex practices or rituals. Sharing body fluids can mean sharing disease or...
  • Sunday, November 1, 2009 - 2:40pm By Matthew Lawrence
    Probably many of the objects surrounding you right now were made in China, and there's a good chance that some of them were manufactured by workers in Guangdong, the southeastern province known as the "workshop of the world."  Also,...
  • Friday, October 30, 2009 - 11:25am By Chris Hall
     As of today, 22 years of a discriminatory policy against people with HIV has ended. Today, Barack Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. The bulk of the bill is devoted to providing health-care services to low-...
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 10:07am By Matthew Lawrence
    There's going to be a Porn-In tonight at the Marriott in Downtown LA. Sponsored by both the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the faith-based Pink Cross Foundation, the event hopes to draw attention to the fact that the hotel chain makes lots of money...
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 5:30pm By Tim McElreavy
      CarnalNation provides not only current, consistent, and uncensored content and event listings related to all aspects of human sexuality but also advocates for the sexual health and well being of all people, regardless of their gender,...
  • Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 4:37pm By Tim McElreavy
    AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns are supposed to be provocative. Last week, a German AIDS organization made Hitler and other despots the faces of AIDS with a poster and video campaign. However, such a campaign is only effective if people can...
  • Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 12:33pm By Chris Hall
    The brass ring of immunology research these days is finding a vaccine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That breakthrough is probably still years away, but researchers have just taken a giant step closer. A team at the Scripps Research Institute...
  • Monday, September 7, 2009 - 3:51pm By Tim McElreavy
    A lesbian sex scene cut from the original production of the 1998 TV movie Gia has begun to circulate on the web. The telefilm helped catapult Angelina Jolie to international fame. The actress was awarded both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her hard-...
  • Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 3:41pm By Tim McElreavy
    In anticipation of World AIDS Day on December 1, a new condom ad campaign has been released on the Internet. The highly graphic video has a harsh and direct message: AIDS is a mass murderer. The video directs viewers to a website that features...
  • Monday, August 10, 2009 - 2:59pm By Tim McElreavy
    The Washington Post reports that following the success of a 2008 pilot program, all public high schools in the District of Columbia will offer testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to students.The pilot program was conducted last year in...
  • Monday, August 3, 2009 - 11:55am By Chris Hall
    A 62-year-old Cameroonian woman living in Paris has tested positive for a new strain of HIV that is related to a virus generally found in gorillas. Up until now, there have been three identified variations of HIV, all of which are believed to have...
  • Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 9:35am By John Pettitt
    Argentina: The archbishop of La Plata and president of the Commission of Catholic Education of the Bishopric, monsignor Héctor Aguer, called a new government sex education manual for teachers "totalitarian" and "neo-...
  • Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 9:24am By Mark Kliem
      On July 15, 2009, the producer of International Mr. Leather (IML), Chuck Renslow, sent out a memo to past vendors of the annual Leather Market stating, “… after considerable discussion, the Executive Committee of International Mr...
  • Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 5:33pm By Chris Hall
    The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court today alleging that county health officials have failed to enforce regulations to combat HIV transmission within the adult film industry. The Foundation is asking the court...