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Archive for 'abstinence'

Sex Is Fun: the Twin Problems of Ignorance and Boom

I’m writing this post with this header image in the hopes that it will not appear to be an advertisement for sex. This is not usually a problem I have; most of the things that I blog about are not nearly this much fun. That’s why I am boldly persevering, despite it all. Being a [...]

Newsflash: Ignorance is Not Bliss! (Abstinence and Why It Sucks)

The BBC reported in August that abstinence-only sex education programs are not working in the United States. Shockingly, studies found that avoiding education about sex does not reduce risks of teen pregnancy or slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It turns out that sex is so good that even pretending it doesn’t exist does [...]

Fuck, Yeah . . . Safely: Young Feminism

Check this example of young feminism: Feministing reports that Tori Shoemaker and Cheyenne Byrd “two eighth graders in St. Louis protested their school’s abstinence-only education program by wearing shirts to school adorned with condoms, reading “Safe Sex or No Sex.” For daring to speak out, they were suspended for two days from school. The superindent [...]

Keep Your Socks On, I'm Cumming: Sex Positivity, Female Orgasm, Scientific Bias

In an article in the College Hill Independent from 2002, Ariana Green writes, “TEACHERS of abstinence-only sex ed have successfully followed Bush’s lead: they talk without ever saying anything of value. It’s an especially sad truth, right up there with the state of the economy and the administration’s hunger for war. Bush proposed to increase [...]