In the aftermath of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in southern Africa it’s emerged that some women in Mozambique were forced by local community leaders to exchange sex for relief aid. This is not a new phenomenon. Similar cases have been documented in a number of African countries involving aid workers, peacekeepers, local humanitarian workers, and government employees. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik explores the issue and the ways in which it can be addressed.

One of the most viewed articles ever published on The Conversation – on the female orgasm gap – was written by Gonzalo Quintana Zunino and Conall Eoghan Mac Cionnaith of Concordia University, in Canada. Today, the pair of sex researchers return with something equally intriguing: what rats can tell us about our own orgasms.