Posts Tagged ‘sex’
By Kay Steiger - Jan 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
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…
Tags: abstinence, education, sex, sex ed
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By L. Russell Allen - Jan 16th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Fox News is reporting that a Washington state court recently ruled that teachers can not be prosecuted for sleeping with their 18-year-old students. Default response:…
Tags: high school, law enforcement, sex
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By Jesse Singal - Jan 14th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Let’s strip a little more mystery out of love, shall we?
Thanks, New Scientist!
Who needs children when a puppy can provide a similar emotional…
Tags: science, sex
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By Emily Rutherford - Jan 9th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Via Telmah Parsa at The Daily Beast, the latest out of Iran is evidence of the impossibility of sustaining a culture in which sexual relations…
Tags: international, Internet, Iran, sex
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By Nick Sifuentes - Jan 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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…
Tags: reproductive rights, sex, sex ed
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By L. Russell Allen - Jan 7th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
The argument for the Catholic Church against other Christian denominations has always been the foundation of the Mother Church through the years. Just ask Louisiana…
Tags: Catholic Church, Catholicism, religion, reproductive rights, sex
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By Kay Steiger - Dec 15th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
So says the New York Times opinion column from this weekend by Charles Blow (heh, blow). Apparently Blow thinks that this strange thing known as…
Tags: Charles Blow, health, right-wing punditry, sex, young people
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By Lisha Arino - Nov 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
For once, a religious figure isn’t telling its congregation to abstain from sex.
According to The New York Times, the Reverend Ed Young, a pastor…
Tags: religion, sex
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By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Margaret Talbot has a must-read piece in The New Yorker from earlier this month looking at differences in sexual behavior between culturally conservative Christians, especially…
Tags: religion, sex
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By Kay Steiger - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
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…
Tags: Gossip Girl, sex, sex ed
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By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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…
Tags: abstinence, sex, sex ed, TV
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By Jesse Singal - Oct 31st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
It’s easy to forget when you live in an enclave of liberal hedonism like Washington, D.C., but there are states in America that still have…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, Michelle Cottle, sex
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By Jesse Singal - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Yesterday at Feministing, Samhita did a post on ten things she “absolutely hate[s] about heteronormative dating”:
1. You are expected to dress nice and act…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, sex
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By Emily Rutherford - Oct 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
In some weeks patterns develop in the reporting at far-flung campuses, and seemingly everyone will be turning out a story on the same subject. This…
Tags: Campus Beat, health, marijuana, sex, war on drugs
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By Emily Rutherford - Sep 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Usually I give news items in college papers a couple sarcastic lines in my “Campus Beat” roundups, but I was too flabbergasted by this one…
Tags: college, higher ed, Notre Dame, sex
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