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Daring to date: Relationships in a pandemic

17th January 202116th January 2021Issy Fleming

Image description: scrabble tiles spelling out stay apart  Picture the scene. You’ve been on a couple of dates, you’ve kissed, you’ve made tentative movements towards starting a relationship. Things are exciting. And then, just as you’re in the beginning stages of falling in love, coronavirus rears its ugly head. You go home for the Easter holidays […]

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Reflections on asexual week

1st November 20201st November 2020Leo Gillard

Asexual awareness week is the last week of October – did you know that? Because I sure didn’t, until a couple of days ago when I saw various ace-related things pop up on Twitter. Talking and thinking about asexuality can always be a little rough. Every time some kind of asexuality event shows up, it’s […]

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Women in need of protection? The fundamental problems with contraception

11th July 202015th November 2020Jackie Brown

Image description: A girl standing with different contraceptive methods. In the middle of a pandemic, with many of us stuck inside our homes for most of the day, it might seem a little counterintuitive to consider how much sex our generation is having. All that aside, it will probably not come as a surprise that […]

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To all the boys I’ve slept with in Oxford: A very open letter

26th May 20191st June 2019Anonymous

Whilst my escapades with you have not always been riveting, and often not positive, the bizarre social dynamics of this bubble we live in has broadened my perspective on casual sex. In coming to this university, I felt that I was equipped with enough experience to sleep around and ‘sow my wild oats’ as my […]

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The sex strike: A well-intentioned but misguided initiative

24th May 201928th May 2019Meg Howells

Image description: Alyssa Milano, leader of the so-called “sex strike” Alyssa Milano, a feminist activist and actor, recently prompted a heated online debate after proposing a “sex strike” to combat new abortion laws. The so-called ‘heartbeat bill’ passed in Georgia plans to prohibit abortion once a foetal heartbeat can be detected. This can be as […]

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Hidden vagina: the taboo of female sexuality

28th March 2018Anonymous

Sometimes, I feel like feminism has not fully completed its role – or even worse, that it has barely touched some areas. Despite the fact that sexuality has become less of a taboo than it used to be, I think that there has been much less progress when it comes to women. Young women still […]

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Why Sex and Relationship Education is failing our generation

22nd August 2016Emma Gilpin

When I was in year 9, my state comprehensive high school became an academy. By the time I was completing my GCSEs, Citizenship classes had been removed from the timetable in order to make room for more Maths and English lessons. At the time we didn’t think much of it; we knew the importance of […]

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Sex tape offer for Somerville

6th November 20146th November 2014Elliott Thornley

A Somerville College alumna has been posting on the JCR Facebook page asking students to “#makelovenotporn’.

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Sex and the dreaming spires: fornicatio illuminatio mea

24th January 201415th November 2020Oliver Gray

Before coming to Oxford, I used to watch Sex and the City with morbid curiosity. Samantha’s surreal escapades were funny, but far removed from all reality. Since Michaelmas 2012 however, fornicatio illuminatio mea, and I want to share here just how life has been spiced up for this unsuspecting but fun-loving homosexual Oxonian. First on […]

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Tess: a sober message for freshers

3rd October 20133rd October 2013Jessica Benhamou

It’s that time again when students embark on university life. A new throng of freshers will descend upon the Oxford nightclubs. That first week will be a wonderful blur of neon glow sticks and foam parties. For most, it will be the longest time you have ever spent from home and you will discover the […]

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Cowley sex shop battles to keep licence

16th August 20134th October 2014Nick Toner

The Private Shop on Cowley Road is facing a battle to stay open after the city council received 10 objections against its annual license renewal. Residents and lawyers have claimed that there is a “sub-culture” of sleaze in the area, particularly after nine men were jailed in June for the sexual abuse of local children. […]

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Robin Thicke’s unrated ‘Blurred Lines’ blurs boundaries

7th August 20138th August 2013Emily Bootle

Since its release in the spring, the ‘unrated’ version of Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ (for the full music video, see below) has attracted a lot of attention. But I think it’s high time everyone stopped banging on about the men in the video. I find the public focus on their well-cut, moderately edgy suits – not […]

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OxMuff: More to see than ‘p in the v’

8th June 201315th November 2020Virginia Bush

When you write a column about sex, it’s sometimes too easy to get caught up in your own assumptions about sex. I’m female and cisgender (meaning my traditional gender identity matches my biological sex) and I have sex with men. This is not true for everybody. Therefore, this column will be devoted to talking about […]

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Bianca Jagger denies Telegraph sex assault quote

6th June 20136th June 2013Charlie Dennis

Controversy has emerged after the Sunday Telegraph alleged that Bianca Jagger had made comments accusing Oxford University of providing inadequate support to victims of sexual assault. The ‘Mandrake’ Column of the Sunday Telegraph claimed that Ms Jagger had accused the University of being dismissive about accusations of rape and sexual assault last Sunday. The column, […]

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OxMuff: The girls looked at johnnies

11th May 201315th November 2020Virginia Bush

Encased from the age of eight in a girls’ school, my formative years of sexual education were somewhat warped. Quite apart from lunchtime debates on whether it was technically possible to get pregnant from giving a boy head (answer: yes, but only if you swallow), our PSHE lessons were enough to get anyone wishing for […]

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Lovehoney: A hole new ball game

6th May 201315th November 2020Otis Graham

Richard Longhurst has been making a buzz in the world of online shopping for over a decade. In 2002 he co-founded Lovehoney with friend and business partner Neal Slateford, and has since seen the company become the biggest online retailer of sex toys in the UK, and a major player in the online market worldwide. […]

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OxMuff: The dildos and don’ts of sex toy shopping

25th April 201315th November 2020Virginia Bush

Being as I am a modern, empowered and rampantly sexual woman, I felt it was time to look into the world of sex toys. Not that I can’t do the job myself but, as we know, variety is the spice of life. Here’s how to explore: First of all, put your web browser on private. […]

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The Malcontent on… ‘Romance in Oxford’

25th April 2013Maryam Ahmed

Maryam Ahmed runs us through her “old fashioned” ways of showing love.

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The writers that failed at Oxford

25th April 201325th April 2013Phoebe Williams and Rebecca Roughan

Reckon you’re going to flop finals? You’re not alone. Phoebe Williams and Rebecca Roughan chart Oxford’s most successful failures. Evelyn Waugh “You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them”  So intently did Waugh try to avoid his contemporaries that he actually dropped out […]

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