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Here comes an article about the first year of the implementation of the IRIS project in Amsterdam.

Pilot sessions are often isolated experiments with a random group of participants gathered just for that purpose. But that is not necessarily the case, as shown by our case study from Amsterdam.

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The garden may be the place of various births; birth of ideas, desires, inspiration…the garden is a metaphor but also real, physical full of smells of dirt, rain, flowers. I am proud being on board of the Art and Act – Marie Marzloff Award 2020: ´2020 has globally redefined our common lives as we have been forced to reconcieve them both in terms of time and space, leading us to a profound reflection on the social changes which will follow. As crisis exacerbates inequalities, new perspectives on dialogue and cooperation are emerging just when they seem more necessary than ever. ´More about the contest: http://cesie.org/en/artandact/.

‘Underneath We Are Women’ is an amazing photo book which fights the stereotypes of women’s beauty.Created by Australian photographer Amy D Herrman, the book’s main goal is ‘to educate thousands’ by featuring ‘100 women, 100 bodies, 100 stories’ and showing their endless diversity. In the book, there are no judgments and no opinions of others – just honest photography. If you like this idea, help Amy raise money through Kickstarter so she could print 400 copies of the book!More info: Kickstarter | Instagram (h/t: demilked)

For many, many years, we only talked about safe sex, how to prevent getting pregnant,” said Marianne Lomholt, the national director of Sex and Society. “Suddenly we just thought, maybe we should actually also tell them about how to get pregnant.

Recently, Sex and Society, a nonprofit group that provides much of Denmark’s sex education, adjusted its curriculum. The group no longer has a sole emphasis on how to prevent getting pregnant but now also talks about

It is all part of a not-so-subtle push in Europe to encourage people to have more babies. Denmark, like a number of European countries, is growing increasingly anxious about low birthrates. Those concerns have only been intensified by the region’s financial and economic crisis, with high unemployment rates among the young viewed as discouraging potential parents.

The Italian health minister described Italy as a “dying country” in February. Germany has spent heavily on family subsidies but has little to show for it. Greece’s depression has further stalled its birthrate. And in Denmark, the birthrate has been below the so-called replacement rate needed to keep a population from declining — just over two children per woman — since the early 1970s.

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SHARE YOUR SEXUAL CONFESSIONS HERE, AND EACH MONTH I’LL CHOOSE THE MOST THRILLING TO BE TURNED INTO EROTIC SHORT FILMS

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This is my book. So far, only in Hungarian.

Love these pics. And still feel sorry that was not possible to put them into my Motherhood and Sexuality book… beautiful, honest, and there is so much (sharply provoking) in them.