Disclaimer: A walk of shame isn’t shameful because you’re having casual sex. It’s shameful because the yo pros and seniors in your area get to see you at your absolute lowest. We’re talking crusty lips, smeared mascara, unzipped flies - the lot! And that is factually both funny and shameful.

So what makes men (I would say boys as an ode to most men's maturity level, but it may not be appropriate when talking about penis) so obsessed with the size of their shaft, the dimensions of the dick, the proportions of their penis?

One of the worst things to be on the receiving end of during sex, is pressure. And not the fun “wow there’s a hot person lying on top of me” pressure, but the nagging till you say yes kind.

The Romans didn’t make homophobia a trend: but they did make kissing a trend. The Romans loved kissing so much they were what made this lip smacking fun global.

There has always been a stigma around women watching porn online, something that is so often targeted towards the pleasure of straight men.

This week, I’ve sat down with some people who are living their lives in direct antagonism of stranger danger and the advice that our parents tried so hard to instil in us.

A lot of countries have been open to the rest of the world for a while now, so there was always an option to leave New Zealand, but getting back in was a different issue. 

Currently, we have our loving but rather frazzled mother Ardern, and slippery businessman Luxon both playing the match of the year and competing for the grand title of ‘cares the most about the poor’.

The Girl Boss trend rippled to the surface of our consciousness when white women everywhere began breaking the glass ceiling and taking their seat at the table.

There is a higher demand for help in dealing with mental distress, a lack of psychologists to meet this demand, and private clinical psychologists turning away up to sixty clients a month due to being already at capacity.

With a loveable boy-next-door charm paired with sexy, refined vocals, REID is an up-and-coming artist you need to look out for.

It’s a pretty basic principle really; something is causing you discomfort and you use medicine to treat it so that you can go about your day without being in pain. Antidepressants work the same.

When you’ve got so much going on, taking time out for you to just feel happy and have fun doing dumb shit doesn’t seem useful.

Psychology as we know it is largely based around one crucial but mildly questionable document - the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Frequently labeled as the “bible of psychiatry”, the DSM-V provides framework for diagnosing mental illnesses and disorders.

There is a plethora of research out there that evidences the link between ethnic identity and well-being. Many of us reading this right now are the evidence of this. We are the next generation of New Zealand-borns, who have been dealt the challenge of navigating our acculturation to Aotearoa while trying to keep our ethnic identity secure and whole in the process.

Hauora, the Māori paradigm that describes the foundation of well-being as a whare with four walls, needs to be reintroduced at a university level.

These are absolutely things we need to address and talk about, but sometimes it can get a bit overwhelming, and we can lose sight of all the beauty and good in the world.  

For some, this experience is all they have ever known. For others, they’ve seen what life on campus is like and for whatever reason have switched to distance study of their own accord. Today, we gather intelligence, insight, and information from some of these people.

Through an online petition, party co-leaders, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, called for the removal of the British Royal Family as head of state, as well as for the creation of a Te Tiriti centric Aotearoa through constitutional transformation.

We didn’t ask to be put on this earth, yet we still have to suffer under the crushing weight of capitalism, inflation, and the stock market.