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Democrats Spend $250 Million on Ineffective Abstinence Programs

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Reproductive Justice

Imagine a quarter of a billion dollars, approved by Democrats for programs which the vast majority of them know don't work. The money was attached to ...

Media and the Sexualization of Children

Cory Silverberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Cory Silverberg

I worry about the slippery slope of social science research that too often treats gender and sexuality as static phenomenon, and young people as doomed to a fate only an adult can devise for them, or save them from.

'Clinton-Lewinsky Effect': Study Shows Students' Changing Views Of Oral Sex

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sex researchers point to former President Bill Clinton, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, a notorious blue dress -- and perhaps a cigar -- fo...

Who Put Failed Ab-Only Programs Back in Health Care Reform?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Reproductive Justice

By James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth Lost in the shuffle of analysis of the new health care reform legislation, is the fact that Democrat...

NAE's Gospel of Sexuality: Good News for Some

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Rev. Debra Haffner

I couldn't agree more with the National Association of Evangelicals' understanding that the Bible teaches that sex is good, and that "God established multiple purposes for sex."

How Mothers Can Advocate For Their Daughters' Sexual Health (VIDEO)

EmpowHER | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Jane Fonda, founder and chairperson of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, explains how a mother should advocate for her daughte...

How to Have Vacation Sex at Home

Linda E. Savage | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Linda E. Savage

Although some of what makes vacation sex great is the getaway, if that's all it is then we're sunk. But let's look at the ways in which vacation sex is possible to have at home.

'The Road From Ruin': Sex Or Money? Which Is Harder To Talk About?

Amy Butte | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Amy Butte

Sex or money? Condoms or internal rate of return? Which of these highly charged topics and terms would you prefer (or prefer not) to talk to your kids about?

San Francisco Values Save the World!

Mark Morford | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Mark Morford

Would the spittle-flecked bipeds who write to me (or comment down below) and misspell "commy" and "sodimite" listen or care in the slightest? I already know the answer.

Feminomics: Pro-Life Atlanta's Big Lie to Poor and Minority Women

June Carbone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
June Carbone

Georgia Right to Life has taken something that should be celebrated and turned it into a canard raising the specter of genocide in the voluntary reduction of childbearing.

Radical homosexuals ate my baby!

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Mark Morford

And now, ladies and gentlemen, right here on our stage, a fine and terrifyingly hilarious -- or is that hilariously terrifying? -- spectacle, for your...

Sex-Ed Goes High-Tech

eSarcasm | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
eSarcasm

Teens have to learn about sex somehow. A new online game called Adventures in Sex City attempts to fill the virtual void.

Profile Of A Teen Mother

Reproductive Justice | Posted 12.22.2011 | Healthy Living
Reproductive Justice

I see a lot of teenage girls having kids, and it's not until you have your child and you're taking care of your child that you understand that it's really not about you anymore, that you're living for somebody else. I just feel like wait, if you can, just wait-until it's the right time for you.

The Puritans are Dead: Long Live the Puritans?

Deborah M. Roffman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Deborah M. Roffman

The time has come to face an embarrassing truth, America: It's 2010 now, and sex education in the United States is still rooted in the early 17th Century. I see evidence of this unchallenged presumption everyday.

Sex Ed in Utah

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Reproductive Justice

My legislative district in St. George, Utah, is conservative, and I am conservative. Yet, I am running legislation to promote contraceptive education. Why? Well, I'll tell you.

A (Modified) Ode to Condoms: How I Love Thee

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Dr. Logan Levkoff

Women should be carrying condoms. You're not a slut if you have condoms in your pocketbook. And quite frankly, if someone thinks you are, why would you want to have sex with that person anyway?

Sexuality and Religion 2020: A New Vision

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Rev. Debra Haffner

For too long, the only influential religious leaders where sexuality is concerned have been theologically and politically conservative

Abstinence-Only Across The Board -- Not So Fast!

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright

Yet should we be so quick to declare abstinence-only as the best approach to sexuality education? After all, this is only one study, and it certainly has its shortcomings, like its...

Science and Sense in the Abstinence Wars

Laura Stepp | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Laura Stepp

When I read the lead paragraph of this week's news story on the success of an experimental, abstinence-only sex ed curriculum, my first thought was: "Yes, but..."

Teen Pregnancy Rate Increases For First Time In A Decade

Washington Post | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade, raising alarm that the long campaign ...

About those Lentil Sprouts

Juliet Linley | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Juliet Linley

This morning Daddy decided to tell our Little One a cute story about the lentil sprouts she was munching on. "They look a lot like the seeds Daddy pla...

New Report: 2009 a Mix of Highs and Lows for Pro-Choice Americans

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Nancy Keenan

A new report arrives as Congress continues to debate abortion coverage in health-care reform, reflecting a mix of progress and setbacks for choice across the country.

Gender Queer in the Midwest

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Reproductive Justice

The purpose of the GenderQueer Coalition is to create access to resources that already exist, and to promote and support the creation of resources in communities that need them.

School Dress Codes Target Gender

Tove Hermanson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Tove Hermanson

If unusual or gender bending clothes cause a dreaded disruption in class, banning the clothes is still not going to address the core problem: that gayness is considered an undesirable aberration.

The 'Sex Talk': Teaching Too Late (Education Before Infection)

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Philip N. Cohen

Even when parents make an effort to talk to their kids about sex, adolescents' sexual experience is often a step ahead of them. The disconnect has emotional consequences and serious health implications.