Bahaa Milhem, a 3rd year journalism student at City University, talks about the difference in culture when it comes to sex in Palestine and here in the UK.
First sex in general and particularly for young people; sex outside marriage?
It’s not illegal but it is looked heavily down upon, especially for women. It is something that goes against the ideas of society. But again it depends on what country you are talking about; Lebanon for example is more Liberal and open minded than compared to Saudi-Arabia.
In the west, especially in big …

 
“I was doing my shopping in the beauty aisle in Sainsbury’s,” Liz*, an undergrad student at City University recalls, “and a middle-aged man, maybe 50 or 60, comes up to me and asks me with this disgusting smirk on his face: ‘Do you know where the Vaseline is?’ It completely caught me off guard. How are you supposed to react? There’s a chance that person is a complete maniac so what are you supposed to say?”
Liz’s experience is unfortunately not unique. Whether it’s an unpleasant comment, an insistent stare or …

 
In the 80s the artists group Guerrilla Girls scattered New York with posters claiming that only 5 per cent of artists in the Metropolitan Museum were women but 83% of all nudes were female.
The number of female artists has increased since then but most nudes in modern art are still women. It doesn’t stop at museums: our entire visual culture, be it advertising, paintings or films, is focused if not obsessed with the naked female body.
While the UK didn’t see a major problem in bare female breasts in the best-selling …

Most people have some idea of what an addiction is, but sex doesn’t seem to be one that first comes to mind.
When Steve McQueen’s Shame, a film about a sex addict living in New York, hit the cinema earlier this year, it provoked a lot of controversy. It seems that sex addiction is still a taboo subject that most of us have never have been confronted with.
Medical organisations have been debating whether “sex addiction” really is a condition, or whether it is just an excuse for a high sex …