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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 [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2008 under abstinence, abstinence-only, educate, education, pregnancy, pregnant, premarital sex, sex, sex ed, sex education, sex positive, sex positivity, sex research, sexual activity, sexual attraction, sexuality, sexually transmitted infections.
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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 [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2008 under 8th grade, abstinence, abstinence-only, cheyenne byrd, distraction, education, eighth grade, feminism, feminist, safe, safe sex, safety, school, sex, suspension, tori shoemaker.
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Good Reads: Women from Brooklyn and Hell, Respectively
First, check out the revolutionary dreams of BrooklynSista: she’s got the truth like sojourner and deals deftly with race and politics in the news and popular culture, with a side of Nas’ “One Love” in case things are getting too serious. Then there’s the post-college wasteland. It’s a good thing that other people have lived [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under Brooklyn, agencies, agency, application, culture, dante, degree, degreed, dreams, education, employment, experience, hell, human, inferno, liberal arts, meta, music, pop, popular, race, real, revolution, sojourner, temp, temporary, truth, uniform, video, work, world.
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I Was A Teenage Feminist…
Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Angier, E-Z Bake Oven, Natalie, National Institutes of Health, Woman: An Intimate Geography, biology, chemical, college, default, department, discrimination, education, english, equality, evolutionary, female, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender equality, genetic, genetics, hormone, institution, interdisciplinary, major, male, objective, objectivity, old boys, organismic, professor, reproduction, reproductive system, sociobiologists, sociobiology, sociology, student, syllabus, testes, women's health, zygote.
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Poly: Want Another Lover?
Several weeks ago I dropped by an apartment in Baltimore with a friend to meet some of her future roommates. We had a great dinner and conversation, which allowed us to completely get over the fact that they had described themselves as a group of ´womyn´ in their craigslist ad (We were a funny combination of self-described [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2007 under Baltimore, Craigslist, education, feminists, learning environment, liberal arts, politics, polyamorous, polyamory, roommates, spelling, traditional, womyn, word coinage.
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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 [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under A Hunger So Wide and Deep, Becky Thompson, Betty Dodson, Brown University, Carol Queen, Cunt, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Dick and Jane, Exhibitionism for the Shy, Federation of Feminist Women's Health Clinics, Female Sexuality, Feminist Frontiers, Global Sex Survey, Hollywood, Inga Muscio, Italy, Lara Kaplan, Masters and Johnson, Museum of Sex, Natalie Angier, Padua, Pornography, Realdo Colombo, Ruth J. Simmons, STIs, Sex for One, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist A, Time, UC Berkeley, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Women and Gender Studies, abortion, abstinence, abstinence-only, abuse, activist, anatomy, anxiety, arousal, brain, cervix, clitoris, contraception, cultural bias, cumming, education, embarrassment, empowerment, erotica, fear, female anatomy, female orgasm, feminism, gender bias, genitalia, genitals, government spending, herbalist, heterosexual, higher education, horror movies, intercourse, masturbation, men, midwife, neuroscience, orgasm, porn star, positron emission topography, right-handed, science, science and gender, sex, sex ed, sex education, sex positive, sex research, sex work, sex workers, sexpert, sexual pleasure, sexually transmitted infections, sin, speculum, stripper, trance, violence against women.
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