Our Editors would like to formally apologize for an article that ran last issue claiming straight sex causes multiple kinds of incurable cancers. The article, part of a now-defunct listicle format, was titled, “Twelve Things You Did Not Know Caused Cancer,” and in fact included some inaccurate reporting. Among the listed items, nestled between “asbestos” and “lead,” was “Heterosexual Sex.” According to the article, “Sex with a member of the opposite gender has been proven to cause several types of glioblastoma and astrocytoma, the most lethal forms of brain cancer.” The following entry, “being unkind,” is still undergoing verification.

This easily missed editorial oversight, while perhaps permissible for lesser establishments, will not be tolerated by our organization. Our dedicated, full-time, forty-person fact checking team will learn and grow from this gross oversight—but no article can be truly error free. We will do better. And we will NOT pull the article claiming gay sex improves your eyesight.

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