October social
Join us from 7.30 pm on Tuesday 7th October in the Library at the Town Wall on Pink Lane, near Newcastle Central Station, to meet fellow skeptics and to shape the future of skepticism in the North East.
Come for drinks, casual debunkings and maybe even some skeptical gaming!
Sexy Evolution: What the Pope Doesn’t Know About Human Sexuality
Thursday 9th October 2025, 7.30pm
Tyneside Irish Centre, NE1 4SG
Pay-as-you-feel tickets (suggested £5)
All civil humans welcome!
Buy tickets here.
Why are there different penis shapes and sizes? Why are female genitalia so different between species? What are the sexual strategies of chimps, humans, and bonobos? Why does human sex last so long? How does all of this relate to religion?
Hear Dr. Darrel Ray speak on his favorite topic – sex. Learn and laugh about religion’s crazy sexual ideas. Explore the role of sex and sexuality in religious infection and learn how common ideas that seem natural are often deeply related to religious control. Even people who were not raised religious retain religious beliefs about sex and sexuality. How do these impact your sex life and sexuality? Dr. Ray discusses this and much more in this engaging and entertaining presentation.
In 2009, Dr Darrel Ray founded Recovering from Religion (RfR), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals dealing with religious trauma, doubt, and non-belief. Throughout his career, Dr Ray has been a vocal advocate for secularism and mental health, emphasizing the importance of science-based approaches to therapy and the challenges faced by individuals leaving religious communities.
November social
Join us from 7.30 pm on Tuesday 4th November in the Library at the Town Wall on Pink Lane, near Newcastle Central Station, to meet fellow skeptics and to shape the future of skepticism in the North East.
Come for drinks, casual debunkings and maybe even some skeptical gaming!
XX/XY – not always what you think
Thursday 13th November 2025, 7.30pm
Tyneside Irish Centre, NE1 4SG
Pay-as-you-feel tickets (suggested £5)
All civil humans welcome!
Buy tickets here.
How is the complex and widely variable physical state that we call ‘sex’ determined at the levels of genetics and embryological development? In this talk, Dr Stewart will share her experiences from a career in the medical management of the developmental problems that can arise during the various process by which our bodies acquire the features of sex. She will examine the diagnostic and treatment dilemmas that arise when sex turns out not to be as simple as we widely expect, and will explore the related complexities which surround sexuality and gender dysphoria.
Jane Stewart (MD, BSc (Hons), MRCOG, FRCOG) is a specialist in trans-people’s reproductive health. Now retired, she was an NHS Consultant in Reproductive Medicine at the Newcastle Fertility Centre (Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), a centre with a long history of helping the LGBTQ community with fertility. A longstanding member of the British Fertility Society, she was responsible for the application for the world’s first licence for mitochondrial replacement treatment.