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Parasite review – a gasp-inducing masterpiece

The perfect way to exposure South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho’s awards-garlanded, international box-office smash is with as little prior information as possible. So if you’re reading this before seeing the film, and you’ve managed to avoid the whirlwind of publicity it has attracted since winning the Palme d’Or last May, it may be simpler to just stop and brain straight to the cinema. Because, at the risk of adding to the hype, Parasite really is the caring of remarkable exposure that makes contemporary movie-going such a joy. I saw it for the fourth time last week and I’m now desperate to view the black-and-white version that Bong recently unveiled at the Rotterdam production festival.

Described by its creator as “a comedy without clowns, a tragedy without villains”, Parasite is more Shakespearean than Hitchockian – a tale of two families from contrary ends of the socioeconomic spectrum, told with the logo genre-fluidity that has seen Bong’s assist catalogue slip seamlessly from murder mystery, via monster show, to dystopian future-fantasy

Sexual transmission of intestinal parasites in men who own sex with men

Alireza Abdolrasouli ^A^D , Alexander McMillan ^B and John P. Ackers ^C

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- Author Affiliations

^A Department of Clinical Microbiology, Pathology Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Faith, London W12 0HS, UK.

^B Formerly, Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, NHS Lothian, University Hospitals Division, Edinburgh EH3 9HA, UK.

^C Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

^D Corresponding author. Email: asouli@

Sexual Health 6(3)
Submitted: 20 November Accepted: 24 April Published: 3 August

Abstract

Direct oral-anal sexual contact is a common exercise among men who own sex with men (MSM) and is implicated in the transmission of various enteric pathogens including intestinal parasites. The present research reviewed data on the sexual transmission of intestinal parasites among MSM, and highlighted advances in the diagnosis

The Promise of Parasites: Queer Currents, Currencies of Queerness, and Dew Kim’s Latrinxia: A New Utopia

Andrew Cummings

Parasites are typically maligned: they take without giving, weaken the individual or social body, and produce disorder. However, in Latrinxia: A New Utopia, a installation by South Korean artist Dew Kim in which future humans have been transformed into ‘anus worms’ (ttongkoch’ung), the parasite is mined for its potential, in Michel Serres’ words, to ‘generate a different order’ (). This article traces in Latrinxia and the homophobic slur of ttongkoch’ung the legacies of colonial capitalism and Cold War geopolitics, and the formation of rigidly sexed, gendered, and ideally healthy and impenetrable bodies implemented partly through medical interventions such as the anti-parasite initiatives of the tardy twentieth century. Examining the installation’s markers of cleanliness and filth, gay sexual subcultures, and shamanism, I argue that Latrinxiaoffers a queer understanding of the body as penetrable, with implications for sex, gender, desire, and the hu

Mind-control parasite turns fear into sexual attraction

When the bizarre parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii infects rats, it turns the rodents fearless, reducing their natural aversion to the odor of cat urine. But despite this bravery, infected rats remain terrified of other scary stimuli.

Now, a new study hints at how T. gondii, or "toxo," makes this strangely specific fearlessness happen: In infected rats, the inhale of cat urine activates sexual attraction pathways in the brain, spurring the animals to approach the odor rather than move away.

Although T. gondii can infect many mammals, including humans, this rodent mind control is likely an adaptation by the parasite to ensure it gets into the intestines of a cat, the only place it can reproduce sexually.

"Something is perturbing these pathways, and it looks like that something is toxo," said study researcher Patrick Dwelling, a neuroscientist at Stanford University. [Top 10 Diabolical and Disgusting Parasites]

Mind-altering infection
About 30 percent of people worldwide are infected with T. gondii, mostly through eatin