Ever since Ian Dury released his single Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll in 1977, sex and drugs have been associated with the production of rock music. However, is the term still relevant to the rock industry in 2022? The “King of Rock and Roll”, Elvis Presley entered the music scene just as tv’s…
Sport
Sex and the impact it has on sports performance
Sex and its relationship to sporting performance has long been debated. There are some well-known connections in the sporting world. Boxers are said to have to abstain from sex before a big fight and the Olympic village has a particularly raunchy reputation. The importance of testosterone and sex is particularly common when it comes to…
Home of the Wonderful
Students, sex ed, and safety
Sex education is something many university students may think they’ve graduated from: the secondary national RSE (relationships and sex education) curriculum, however ineffective, has been taught and now is time to put theory into practice. However, the importance of a thorough and ongoing sex education should not be overlooked. Conversations surrounding anatomy, sexuality, gender, children…
Fashion, Venue
Sex sells? The return of Playgirl, the rise of Fenty, and fashion’s new gaze
‘Sex appeal’ has long been disgracefully two dimensional and exclusive: cis-gendered, slim and pre-dominantly white. The fashion industry’s concept of beauty (and consequentially their selling of sex), as derived from this appeal, is incredibly problematic. Today, however, we are travelling towards a more inclusive vision, a concept of beauty and sex appeal free from binaries…
Editor's column
Sex, storms and sleepiness
Of all the issues we’ve worked on so far, this has been the most tough. Perhaps the Sex and Drugs Survey is to blame: an extra 24 pages of juicy (yes) content to lay up. Or maybe it was Storm Ciara: a depressingly damp finish to what I thought may have been the beginnings of…
Sex and Drugs Survey 2020
Orgasms: fake it till you make it
Quick confession to you, I’ve never orgasmed. To be truthful, I’ve kind of lost hope that I will. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve tried, with partners, by myself, it just seems kind of impossible. I’m definitely coming across salty here, but I feel deprived. Now, if that’s how I feel about it, how would the…
Sex and Drugs Survey 2020
What do we love? Consent!
Having sex whilst on drugs falls into the grey area when talking about consent. I’m not talking about date rape drugs and spiking here (they pose their own issues). But how can you properly give consent if you’ve taken some form of drug to enhance your night out? Would you be in your right mind…
Sex and Drugs Survey 2020
A low-down of the 5Ls
If you haven’t completed one of the Five Ls, then you’ve at least heard of them. Library, Lake, Laundrette, LCR and Lecture Theatre. In the Sex Survey, the LCR was the most favoured location, with 12.9% of respondents having done the dirty in UEA’s own Lower Common Room. Presumably the unisex toilets enable any couple…
Sex and Drugs Survey 2020
Long distance relationships: a big ask?
To make my life at UEA easy-going, I gave myself two rules to follow: ‘never get into a long-distance relationship’ and ‘never fall in love with a flatmate’. However, life isn’t that easy to plan. Sometimes life throws an Australian exchange student across the hall of your flat. As you can imagine, I broke both…
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