Beyond the Birds and the Bees

“Abstinence education works,” Hatch said in a statement LifeNews.com received. “My amendment restores a vital funding stream so that teens and parents have the option to participate in programs that have demonstrated success in reducing teen sexual activity and, consequently, teen pregnanci...

As the new school year heats up, so does the public debate about sex education. What do we teach teenagers about sex, and what do we leave them to figure out on their own? If we can agree that few teens learn about sexuality in an accurate, age-appropriate, and comprehensive way, then where does ...

It is better for them to learn the A-Z of sex rather than wait for porn or their friends to teach them what they are missing. Now if they miss out on the birth control bit, STD bits how they will ever exercise caution. I believe that the more they know about it the more responsible they will be b...

I grew up in a reasonably liberal Orthodox Christian home, and I am Orthodox to this day.  I don’t know if it has to do with my parents’ conservatism, or with their feelings concerning my choices and my right to choices, or even if they simply decided that because we were getting sex ...

“Active consent is about re-framing discussions on sexual consent from strictly ‘no means no’ to a model which states that anything less than active participation is not consensual,” said Rachel Tomlinson Dick, director of the Women’s Resource Center. “It&#8217...

The state’s and the UN’s focus — as well as the world’s general acceptance of the UN’s draft — on the sexuality of such young children is very disconcerting. Whether they are 5-year-olds or tweens, they should not be told what sex is and how to have it. That’s much too young of an age to indoctri...

Nigerians need to let go of that moral crap, sex is not bad; So why do Nigerians demonize it?Your mother cannot even give you proper sex education as a yound adolescent, rather she says ‘ if you go close to a boy or if a boy should touch you , you’ll get pregnant’ .BULLCRAP!!!!!...

Hafen spent a large portion of his talk, held during a Sunday-like service, criticizing the gay-rights movement and denying a biological link to sexual orientation. Same-sex attraction is “not in your DNA,” he said.He attacked the APA’s decision to remove homosexuality from its ...

While people may privately get on quietly with their own preferences in life, this article is an affront of most of us in society. Our age-old inheritance, our culture, our Judaeo-Christian heritage means that officially, at least, the definition of a Family is not open to discussion.Some of you ...

Condoms may not be 100% effective, but they protect against pregnancy and STDs far better than Jesus.via The Gaytheist Agenda » Blog Archive » WTF Mississippi?.Related Posts:Awesome: Media stirs up Transphobic responses to children dealing with gender changeAwful: Morality ... and other Love Stuf...

I, for one, from my faith perspective believe that marriage is a religious covenant for a couple, regardless of gender, who make a sacred promise to love and cherish each other. It is also a civil promise, which carries both responsibilities and protections. In Maine alone, there are more than 40...

It’s that time. My boys are growing up, they’re realizing things. And I found out last night most of what they know is false. What is not false is only half truths and misinformation. For home schooled kids, I’m surprised about how much they hear from other kids. So we decided i...

A school in England called an emergency assembly to tell children that a 12-year-old male pupil was having a sex change.The youngster arrived for his first term at secondary school wearing a dress and with long hair in ribboned pigtails after his parents changed his name to a female one by deed p...

Now the state Supreme Court has upheld Alabama’s ban on the sale of sex toys.Love Stuff, a Hoover purveyer of such toys that has fought the ban, remains open. It goes on as before, making sex toy customers sign a statement declaring their purchase is for medical, scientific, educational or ...

At the age of twenty-six, I finally discovered I was “intersex” from a newspaper article. Fortunately, it was not about me specifically but about intersex in general, and I’m glad that I, unlike Semenya, had time to process the information and come out about it when I was ready ...

We sex educators are few and far between, and many people are desperate for the information I dispense, which is one of the reasons why I decided to open a non-profit resource center for sexuality information. The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health will be opening in Rhode Island and is a firs...

I just read the story about a girl telling her family members about a vibrating doodle pen and I had to share my own story about the things.I had my first orgasms with one of those pens as a young teen!  I got it for Christmas a few years earlier, as did all of my younger cousins, but I noticed t...

Awesome post from random babble… explaining how she learned about menstruation:I spent the next few nights holed up in my room reading about female and male anatomy, puberty, necking and petting, snickering to myself and re-reading the part about intercourse and ogling the scientific drawings of ...

The following story lay dormant in my memory for many years. It, along with other experiences, explains a lot of things about how I relate to my family. I have recounted this recollection in the third person. That is just how it came out, and who am I to argue with my muse?***“Jon showed me so...