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State Sex Ed Bill Could Prohibit Teaching Contraception, Kissing, Hand-Holding

Posted 04.08.2012

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Tennessee lawmakers added language to the state's abstinence-only sex education curriculum that warns against "gateway sexual activity." Although S...

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Why Some Women Are Sexists

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.13.2012

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Every day people, like me, are banging their heads on their desks, asking "What is wrong with that woman?" "Why is she doing that?" "Doesn't she realize she's being used by a system that denigrates her?" Women in these positions clearly don't see it that way.

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New Pornography Regulations in L.A.: Are They Addressing the Right Problem?

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 04.09.2012

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The ordinance will not be very effective at influencing the overall depiction of sex in imagery and media. This outcome is all the more lamentable because encouraging condom use is so important. Let's look at the facts.

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Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan: Abstinence-Only Education

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 11.16.2011

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A bill launched during Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's jobs session and nearing passage in the Legislature would repeal significant portions of the stat...

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WATCH: The Science of Sex Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.15.2012

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What is the most effective way to educate young people about sex? What can we do to minimize unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? Does abstinence-only education work? Some people think so.

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WATCH: Let's Talk About Sex: Don't Be Afraid To Speak Your Mind

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 11.18.2011

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It's because of scientific curiosity that many things have been learned about the human sexual experience. For example, do you know what's actually occurring during vaginal lubrication?

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The Un-American War on Science

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 12.28.2011

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My family founded the Minnesota Republican Party and I am dismayed by this un-American display of prideful ignorance. Our GOP candidates ought to be ashamed.

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Of Meat, Sex Education, and Conservative Ideologies

Cory Silverberg | Posted 12.21.2011

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Schools can and should teach about the nutritional value of meat. That's what schools do. At home I can and should teach about the ethical and moral weight of eating meat. That's what parents do. The same is true for sex.

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Rick Perry Struggles To Answer Question About Sex Ed: 'Abstinence Works'

Posted 10.24.2011

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Last summer, Texas chose to pass on $4.4 million in federal funds aimed at sex education for adolescents in the state, The Texas Tribune reported. ...

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Rick Perry Asked Why More Kids Are Getting Pregnant in Texas

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 09.19.2011

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Instead of providing fact-based information, Perry's program uses fear and Jesus -- over-emphasizing the risks of STDs leading to cervical cancer, radical hysterectomy and death -- together with Christian morality.

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Teen Pregnancy Rates Highest In South

The Hill's Healthwatch | Mike Lillis | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, for instance, 2008 birth rates were less than 25 per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19, CDC found. I...

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Guilty Pleasures: Religion and Sex Among American University Students

Roger Friedland | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 2008 and 2009 we asked close to a thousand students about their sex lives. Does the nature of the God students believe in, and the kind of religious community they come from, make a difference in their sex lives?

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Weekly Pulse: Rhythm Method Madness

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Seventeen percent of sexually active teenage girls said they used the rhythm method as a means of birt...

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Marry Me, Bristol: Christian Hypocri-sex, Pt. II

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011

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I readily concede that moral boundaries and restraint are crucial to good living. But I am suspicious of the Pharisaic distortions, namely an irrational rigidity, or the sorts of bizarre loopholes and rationalizations common to those who take abstinence vows.

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Bristol Palin's Acting Debut: Sarah Palin's Daughter Plays Self On 'Secret Life of the American Teenager'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bristol Palin's career has taken a new turn. ABC Family announced Tuesday that the former governor of Alaska's teenager daughter will be making her a...

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Embracing Teenage Sexuality: Let's Rethink the Age of Consent

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our draconian consent laws are largely the product of a conservative political culture that has transformed the fight against child molestation into a full-blown war on teenage sexuality.

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Panel Votes To Restore Abstinence-Only Education Money

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for abstinence-only education that President Ba...

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Abstinence Education DisObeyed

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

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The strongest player in the political poker games surrounding sex education is David R. Obey, House Appropriations Committee Chair.

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Why Is America So Obsessed with Virginity?

Anastasia Kousakis | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a concept, virginity is more dangerous than not, because it puts us into these virgin or not categories, which doesn't really give us a very nuanced perspective or understanding of sexuality.

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Yes, College Students Have Sex. So Why Deny Them Information?

Daniela Ramirez | Posted 05.25.2011

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By denying access to contraceptive resources and restricting open discussion of reproductive health, Catholic colleges are putting the sexual health of sexually active young adults in serious danger.

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Virginity Rules: Will Our Next President Reform Sex-Ed?

NEWSWEEK | Laura Beil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although the world has recently preoccupied itself with sex education in Alaska, it is here, in my home state of Texas, where the battle over abstinen...

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States Increasingly Refusing Funds For Abstinence-Only Programs

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The number of states refusing federal money for "abstinence-only" sex education programs jumped sharply in the past year as evidence mounted that the ...

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