Day: March 6, 2024

Together with YOUR ex columnist Jessie Lewthwaite, Gurv Singh is the new co-chair of the Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust. He tells YOUR ex about the life journey that led him from Singapore to South Auckland and on to this role. Congratulations on your recent appointment as a co-chair of RNZCT. Can you tell us […]

Dick Richards preaches abstinence… well, for the first date anyway. Have you ever wondered why a fuckbuddy or a hook-up never turns into anything more? Let me ask you this: If your flesh-light or dildo could talk, would you strike up a conversation with it? I’m guessing not. What’s the correlation, you ask? It’s quite […]

Annah Pickering, the Regional Co-ordinator for the Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers Collective (NZPC), tells us about recent international trips to share information and models on how to best protect sex workers the world over. Can you please explain to our readers a bit about the work that the NZPC does? NZPC is a peer-based organisation […]

Elijah Luke Michel explores the origins of the term ‘cisgender’ and searches for an alternative to appease those who find it offensive. Over the years I have often wondered who coined the term ‘cisgender’ and what they were thinking? Innocently introduced in 1994 to highlight cis-normativity and cis-sexism (a bias towards cisgender people) by researcher […]