Kinsey Confidential: The Kinsey Institute Sexuality Information Service

Cuban officials announced earlier this month that free sex-change surgery is now available to citizens. The operations are included as part of Cuba’s health care plan, one of the newest changes that has come to Cuba with Raul Castro as President. Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education supports the new policy and has had 28 requests for sex change operations. No news has been given yet on when the operations will be available. The Associated Press has written about this new development in sexual reassignment surgery.

Last month, a large group of gays and lesbians in Moscow rallied together waving rainbow flags in defiance of Russia’s ban on gay pride events. Right-winged activists were there to protest, throwing eggs and even beating them. The gay activists also carried a massive flag in front of Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov’s office building. Luzhkov is known to be homophobic, claiming that gay pride events are “Satan’s work”.

Although most college students will have had sexual intercourse - even if just once - by the time that they graduate college, not all will and this choice is just as valid and complex as the choice that other students make to have intercourse. In a recent New York Times article, Students of Virginity, writer […]

House Bill 1042 is currently in the works to be passed in the Indiana Legislature. If made into a law, this will require that anyone "selling sexually explicit materials, products, or services" will have to register with the Secretary of State, who will then notify local officials in the county where the goods are to […]

Dr. Alice Dreger, Associate Professor in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern Universty and a prolific speaker and writer on the politics of science, medicine, and anatomy, spoke recently at The Kinsey Institute on the history and evolution of the term "intersex," and its alternatives.
In her talk, Dr. Dreger explored how the […]