According to The New York Times, reports of my generation’s sex-having have been greatly exaggerated:
Today, fewer than half of all high school students have…
Via the illustrious Pam Spaulding at Pandagon, a middle school in Ohio hired Derek Dye to dress up as a clown and teach messages of…
Mississippi takes top honors for the highest rate of teen pregnancies in 2006, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control. In…
Here’s a simultaneously weird and depressing stat: lesbian and bi teenage girls in British Columbia are far more likely to get pregnant than their straight…
Today the Washington Post wrote about a study released that shows a correlation between unintended pregnancies and watching television shows that portray “flirting, necking, discussion…
Or at least that’s what a study conducted by the RAND Institution claims. Here’s the Washington Post’s summary:
The study, which tracked more than 700…
Apparently high school and college students in Alaska are sick and tired of not getting proper sex education. After Amber Sawyer saw her too many…
Megan McArdle, listing possible reasons why the Bristol Palin pregnancy might matter and her rebuttal to each:
Because social conservatives are against sex education emphasizing…
Everyone is arguing over whether the pregnancy Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, is a valid campaign issue, or whether it should be left alone. The issue…
A while back, there was some debate among Kay and Haley about why some parents were uneasy about their children receiving the HPV vaccine Gardasil,…
Over at Campus Progress, Stephanie Gross, who works on women’s health issues at the Center for American Progress, runs down everything you need to know…
Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon hits a home run in her well-reasoned essay on heterosexual mating rituals. She strikes at the heart of the pro-abstinence argument:…
The Economist has up an informative piece on population control. The gist: Decades after people realized that runaway population growth could have disastrous global consequences,…
Last week, McCain stumbled and stuttered aboard the Straight Talk Express when a reporter asked about his position on health insurance companies that cover Viagra…
While I agree with Kay (and feministe) that the recent reports about the potential unsafe nature of the HPV vaccine Gardasil are actually greatly unfounded…
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