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Raising Our Daughters to Be Sexually Authentic Adults

Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mothers Talking to Daughters About Sex, Female Sexuality, Sex Education, Women's Empowerment, Women's Sexuality, Healthy Living News
Joyce McFadden

If we supported our daughters in gradually assimilating an understanding of their natural sexuality as they grow, they wouldn't need to identify with it primarily through superficial packaging like mini-dresses and perilously high heels.

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Why "the Gays" Need Planned Parenthood Too

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Planned Parenthood Funding, Stds, Planned Parenthood, Health Care, Gay Issues, Lgbt, Contraception, Sex Education, Politics News
Thomas DeLorenzo

I grew up in Schenectady, a small city in upstate New York. Sex education was an embarrassing night with my younger brother in the school cafeteria w...

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Teacher Disciplined For Giving Students Inappropriate Quiz

AP | Posted 07.19.2011 | Home
Read More: Sexual Innuendo Quiz, William T Dwyer High School, Sex Quiz, Teachers, Frank Rozanski, Sex Education, Home News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida high school advanced placement psychology teacher has been disciplined for giving a quiz filled with se...

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WATCH: 'Sex Training' With Ninja Sex Party

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Sex Party, Video, Ninja, Music Video, Ninja Sex Party, Musical Comedy, Sexuality, Sex Education, Comedy News

If you've thought to yourself recently, "Why is everyone so negative? Why can't we occasionally focus on things that are positive and nice?" then we'...

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The Trojan Horse Republican Congress

James Wagoner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Chris Smith, Culture Wars, Gay Rights, John Boehner, Sex Education, Unfpa, Cantor, Boehner, Glbt, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, Cbae, Randall Terry, Joe Pitts, Republicans, Politics News
James Wagoner

Republicans have held a major press conference to introduce the so-called "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." But, wait a minute! Didn't they run a campaign based on the economy?

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8 Things You Can Do About Population

Lisa Hymas | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Abortion, Population, Childfree, Parenting, Kids, Overpopulation, Gink, Family Planning Programs, Abortion Rights, Sex Education, World News
Lisa Hymas

As we zoom toward seven billion, population growth is looking ever more hairy and daunting. But what can we do ourselves, in our own lives and communities? Here are a few ideas.

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Health Teachers' Hopes Flaccid Over Extinct Fruit

Doree Lewak | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Teen Sex Education, Chiquita, Teen Sexuality, Bananas, Sex Education, Sex, Banana-Crisis, Sat Scores, The New Yorrker, Latin America, Health Teachers, Home News
Doree Lewak

Slippery problems plague sex ed classes across the country, screwing high school health teachers yet again -- and not in a way they'd hoped for. The f...

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High School Bans Safe-Sex Kits Over Flavored Lube, Candy And Condoms

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Sex, Sex Education, Safe Sex Kit, Safe Sex in High-Schools, Safe Sex Education, Sex Ed, Home News

SWANZEY, N.H. — Officials at a New Hampshire high school say they will no longer allow a group to distribute safe-sex kits to students because t...

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Colorado Board Of Education Defies Governor Ritter,

The Denver Post | Susan Greene | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Sex Education, Sex Ed, John Suthers, Colorado Board of Education, Abstinence Only, Bill Ritter, Denver News

Bill Ritter's administration is in a turf war with the State Board of Education over sex, kids and health care reform. State law requires schools t...

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Is There a True Limited Government Standard in the G.O.P.?

Susan Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mainstream, Abortion, Family Planning, Prochoice, Limited Government, Sex Education, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Oncommonground, Moderate Republicans, Republican Majority for Choice, Republican-Majority-for-Choice, Dadt Repeal, Teen Pregnancy, Morality, Republican Party, Pro-Choice, Commonsense, Republicans, Politics News
Susan Bevan

The repeal of DADT put a stop to big government at its worst -- and most intrusive. But what about when government tries to restrict the private medical choices of women?

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Sex Over 50: WSJ Reports The New Normal, And It's Great! Dr. Pat's Notebook

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 07.19.2011 | Style
Read More: Stds, Herpes, Women, Sex, Chlamydia, Menopause, Pregnancy, .Sex, Womens Health, Love, Sexuality, Sex Education, Style News
Patricia Yarberry Allen

Originally posted on Women's Voices for Change. The Wall Street Journal published an essay by Dr. Mark Lachs, head of geriatrics for the New York-P...

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A New Approach to Global HIV/AIDS Education

Dr. Piya Sorcar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: India, Teachaids, Awareness Campaigns, Drug Use, World AIDS Day, Nonprofit, Aids, Hiv, Botswana, Sex Work, Sex Education, Stanford Unversity, Premarital Sex, HIV Cure, Home News
Dr. Piya Sorcar

Given how widespread HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns are, you'll be surprised to learn how little knowledge many people actually have about the diseases. It is not at all easy to teach people about them either.

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Vatican Walks Back Pope's Condom Approval: Nothing's Changed

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: The Pope, Pope Condoms, Pope Condoms Aids, Vatican, Vatican Pope Comdoms, Catholic Church, Catholic Church Condoms, Condoms, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI Condoms, Sex Education, Vatican Condoms, Religion News, Religion News

VATICAN CITY — Vatican officials insist it's nothing "revolutionary," but to many other people Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments regarding con...

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Pope: Condoms Can Be Justified In Some Cases

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Vatican Condoms, Catholic Church Condoms, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI Condoms, Condoms, Pope Benedict XVI, Sex Education, Religion News

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door on the previously taboo subject of condoms as a way to fight HIV, saying male prostitutes w...

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South Africa's 'Government Condom' Campaign Has Mixed Results

GlobalPost | Iva Skoch | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: HIV Protection, Hiv, Condoms, Latex, Pregnancy, Sex, HIV Prevention, Teen Pregnancy, Sex Education, South Africa, Contraceptive, Std, Government Condoms, Pornography @Y:World, Aids, Protected Sex, World News

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Julie Peroni liked everything about her new boyfriend and she couldn't wait for the first time he spent the night. "Things...

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Tanzania Uses Wall Murals For Sex Education (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sex Education, Masturbation, Hiv, Sex, Wall Murals, HIV Prevention, Tanzania, Genital Mutilation, Sex Education Campaign, World News

Like subway posters or highway billboards, wall murals have long been popular as a form of cheap advertising in Tanzania for such products as Coca-Col...

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Boys Get Less Sex Education

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Adolescents, Education, Parenting, Sexuality, Sex, Sex Education, Gender, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Two-thirds of 15-19-year-olds have had formal instruction in methods of birth control. Seems like we should do better, but anyways. I never noticed t...

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Results Are In: Biggest U.S. Sexual Health Study In 20 Years (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Sexual Health, Sexual Education, Sex Education, Sex Health, Sex, Slidepollajax, Sex Ed, Healthy Living News

Wondering how sex has changed in the last 20 years? The most comprehensive U.S. study on sexual health and behavior in two decades sought to shed some...

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Malaysia Considers Introducing Sex Ed To Combat 'Baby-Dumping'

Yahoo! News | – | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sex Education Classes, Sex Education, Malaysian Sex Education, Malaysia, Baby Dumping, Sex Ed, Kuala Lumpur, World News

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Malaysia said Friday it is considering introducing sex education in schools across the Muslim-majority nation as part of a campa...

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Sex Educators Unite to Support University Sex Weeks

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: University, Education, Logan Levkoff, College, Sex, Chronicle of Higher Education, Higher Education, Sex Education, Sexuality, Healthy Living News
Dr. Logan Levkoff

Earlier this month, I wrote about the latest attack on sex - specifically, the concerns that Margaret Brooks, a Bridgewater State economics professor,...

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Empowering Girls, Girls, Girls and Women

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Bill Clinton, Empowerment, Empowering Girls, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Clinton Foundation, Teenage Girls, Sex Education, Girls, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Education, Clinton Global Initiative, Microfinance, Cook Stoves, Melinda Gates, Girls Education, Domestic Violence, Impact News
Michelle Kraus

Only the formidable Bill Clinton together with his unstoppable Foundation can marshal the forces of good to begin to make fundamental change for future generations of girls and women.

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Those Bad Breasts - Take II (Katy Perry Edition)

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Sesame Street, Breasts, Logan Levkoff, Parenting, Chris Brown, Sex Education, Katy Perry, Elmo, Healthy Living News
Dr. Logan Levkoff

I am feeling a strange sense of deja vu. Over a year ago I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post entitled, Those Bad Breasts. It was a story of news p...

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Sex Laws and 2 Wisconsin District Attorneys

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Sex Education, Sex Ed, Sexual Harrassment, Sex, Sex Lawsuit, Sex Laws, Sex Education Law, Sexual Harrassment Lawsuit, Healthy Living News
Christopher Brauchli

This week's news pertains to two Wisconsin district attorneys who have very different views on sex.

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Why We Should Read "Soft Pornography"

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Banning Books, Abstinence Education, Education, Sexual Assault, Censorship, Sex Education, Books, Teenagers, Books News
Isabel Kaplan

Concerns about Slaughterhouse-Five, Speak, and Twenty Boy Summer highlight a deeper and more troubling belief -- that is, that young people should be prevented from exposure to anything that discusses sex and sexual activity in any way.

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Maternal Mortality: Can We Talk About Sex (at the UN)?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Abortion, Contraception, Sex Education, Millennium Development Goals, Maternal Mortality, United Nations, World News
Evelyn Leopold

No doubt prenatal care, malnutrition, access to a hospital and skilled professionals could prevent most maternal deaths. But the squeamishness of talking about family planning -- in short sex -- is a no-no in many nations.

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