Sex is hot. Programmes devoted to the subject are commonplace on radio and television. The print media has wrestled with the putative existence of the gay brain and gay genes. The role of the judiciary in interpreting the meaning of consent and the place of sexual violence in and out of marriage has created a series of controversies. At the same time, the lesbian and gay communities in Sydney and Melbourne have debated the meaning…
At a time when the American gay movement should be flexing its muscles after the role it played in the election of Bill Clinton, it is instead fighting to maintain its political influence. One source of this reversal of political fortunes is a new survey which has been interpreted by some as saying that 1 per cent of American men are gay rather than the 10 per cent figure that has crept into popular consciousness.…
Nobel Laureate James Watson has compared it to the Apollo Project. Others have described it as the Manhattan Project of biology. Given that Watson shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Francis Crick in 1962 for their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, one suspects that any grand comparisons he makes to the Human Genome Project, potentially the most significant genetics project in history and of which he was the director of the…
