Tag Archives: sex education

Today’s Lady News: More Than Half Of Young Adults Misinformed About Birth Control

Jessica WakemanMay 14, 2012 //
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  • Here’s a depressing statistic: 60 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds may not understand how to properly use birth control to prevent pregnancy, according to a new study of 1,800 young adults by the Guttmacher Institute. Shocker of shocks, abstinence-only sex education — which refuses to teach children how contraception works — is being fingered as a prime reason for the misunderstanding.  [International Business Times]
  • Tennessee’s governor signed into law on Friday a bill that bans teaching students about “gateway sexual behavior,” which includes everything from outercourse to hand-holding and hugging. The bill requires sex ed instructors to teach only abstinence and fines teachers $500 for each violation. Clearly this entire state did not read that Guttmacher study.  [Feminist.org]
  • Arizona Governor Jan Brew signed into law on Friday a bill that allows any employer that identifies as “religiously affiliated” to refuse to cover birth control in the company’s health insurance plan. Thankfully, an even crazier original version of the bill was changed. [Feminist.org] Keep reading »

Sex Ed Tries To Reach More Dudes Through Humor

Tiffanie DraytonMarch 10, 2012 //
SVH Sex Ed
Our first introduction to sex was through SVH. Read More »
Abstinence Message
Abstinence-only sex education is rebranding its message. Read More »
16 And Pregnant
Jamie Lynn Spears photo
Jamie Lynn Spears says she was too scared to ask for birth control. Read More »
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Most think of us see unplanned pregnancy rates as a serious thing, but others think it’s a laughing matter. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy has ab unorthodox approach to teaching guys sex education: humor. While women ages 18 to 29 receive a lot of messages regarding safer sex practices, the organization believes men in the same group remain widely ignored. Their solution? Create PSAs that appeal to men by making them laugh.

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Girl Talk: How Kirk Cameron Tried To Ruin My View Of Sex

Jamie BeckmanMarch 6, 2012 //
Virginity & Depression
Why do girls get depressed after losing their virginity? Read More »
Guys' Virgin Fantasies
Do they have them? Read More »
Virginity Regrets
Regretting the way you lost your v-card. Read More »

When I tell people that once, when I was in 7th grade Sunday school class, I was shown a video starring Kirk Cameron and his wife Chelsea Noble that illustrated the dangers of sex with laughing carnival workers and evil clowns, they don’t believe me. Well, here it is (presented in three parts, after the jump). 

Every time I see Kirk Cameron — especially now, speaking out about how homosexuality is “unnatural” and “detrimental” — I think of my 13-year-old self sitting in a dark classroom, terrified, watching the 1993 Focus on the Family abstinence-only “educational presentation” called “Sex, Lies & … The Truth.” The beginning of the film isn’t subtle: Shots of Kirk and Chelsea talking about delaying sex until marriage are interwoven with warped shots of haggard carnival workers laughing maniacally; close-ups of antiquated games, a cackling clown, and menacing rides; and a frightening-looking roller coaster in motion, camera placed firmly at the front car’s helm. “I think it’s real easy sometimes to look at life like it’s just this great ride or it’s just this awesome game, and you’re out to have as much fun as you can,” Kirk begins. Keep reading »

The Soapbox: Let’s Really Talk About Sex

Julie GillisJanuary 9, 2012 //
I Was Date Raped
Amelia was date raped in college by a guy she liked. Read More »
Date Rape PSA
date rape poster
This date rape PSA has been accused of blaming the victim. Read More »
Sex Resolutions
30 things we vow to do -- in bed! -- in 2012! Read More »

Enthusiastic Consent. I’m a fan. For any of you not in the know, Enthusiastic Consent is a way to make sure that yes really means yes and no means no, during sex. It’s an ongoing conversation during sex itself, where partners listen to all manner of cues to make sure that what’s happening is really wanted. Scarleteen has a good definition here. Enthusiastic Consent is a term designed to get people talking to each other about sex so that when the sex happens, everyone is on the same page, happy and in alignment with what’s supposed to happen. Keep reading »

Sext Books At The Ready: World’s First Sex School Opens

Huffington Post Weird NewsNovember 29, 2011 //

The world’s first international sex school has opened which claims to teach its students how to be better lovers. But far from being a cheap thrill, one term at the “hands on” International Sex School in Vienna will cost pupils £1,400.

Swedish-born “headmistress” Ylva-Maria Thompson says anyone over the age of 16 can enroll at what she describes as “the world’s first college of applied sexuality”. Read more…

Switzerland’s Sex Ed Involves A Wooden Penis And A Fabric Vagina

Jessica WakemanAugust 25, 2011 //

In America, sex education is whatever the religious right says it is. But in Switzerland kids ages four to 10 get their sex education with a wooden penis and a fabric vagina which teachers use to “show that contacting body parts can be pleasurable.” Another part of the teacher’s guide instructs kids to learn about pleasure while they rub themselves with warm sand bags while listening to soft music. Keep reading »

What High Schools Should Teach In Sex Ed

College CandyJuly 24, 2011 //

In high school, my sex ed was what you would call minimal. Since Texas firmly believes in abstinence-only education (which so doesn’t work – my high school had a day care program for crying out loud!), I consider myself very lucky that I had a very open-minded mother who taught me about sex. And now that I’m in college, by far my favorite class this semester is my human sexuality class where my professor is not only incredibly funny, but very insightful. All of this along with some personal experience leads me to the conclusion that, well, sex ed of all kinds suck.

Here’s what they should be teaching high schoolers in order to better prepare them. Read more… Keep reading »

Ashton Kutcher Will Teach You Sex Ed Now

Julie GersteinJanuary 10, 2011 //

“One thing [high school sex ed classes] teach about is how to get pregnant or how to not get pregnant, but they don’t really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women. The male orgasm is actually right there and readily available to learn about because it’s actually part of the reproductive cycle, but the female orgasm isn’t really talked about in the education system. Part of that creates a place where women aren’t empowered around their own sexuality and their own sexual selves, and from a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that’s empowered with her own sexuality is a powerful thing. And if we can give teenage people something to think about from a sex perspective, I would say it would be to open a conversation where women are empowered with their own sexual experiences from an educational level as well as an entertainment level.”

– Ashton Kutcher talks about sex ed and the female orgasm, presumably to shill for his new female orgasm-centered movie, “No Strings Attached.” [Movieline] Keep reading »

Study: Schools Teach Abstinence, Not Contraception

Julie GersteinSeptember 17, 2010 //

Teens learn about the birds and the bees in high school sex ed — but they’re not, apparently, learning about birth control. A report from the Centers for Disease Control found that 97 percent of teens received sex education by the time they turned 18, but an alarming 30 percent of teens said that contraception education wasn’t a part of their sex ed curriculum. Keep reading »

Hey Girls! Use A Condom, Because Men Are Total Jerks!

Amelia McDonell-ParryMarch 2, 2010 //


Hey, you know how parents and teachers and other, you know, boring adults can get teenagers — particularly teenage girls — to use condoms and other forms of protection if they’re going to have sex? By talking to them in language they understand, of course! For the folks of SexReally.com, that means using crude words like “titties,” swearing a lot, and stereotyping eww-gross-boys as total jerks. No, seriously, “jerks” is the term this safe sex PSA — which debuted at the Sex:Tech conference this weekend — uses to describe men/boys, as a way of encouraging teenage girls to wrap it up. After all, the 16-year-old boy you’re boning probably is a total a-hole, and who wants to have an a-hole’s baby? Sure, it’s nice to not be stereotyping women and girls for once, but how is portraying men in general as skeezy, perverted douchebags the best way to send a safe sex message? If all men were as revolting as the guys in the PSA above, I would think we would be encouraging women to go lesbian, amiright? [Broadsheet] Keep reading »

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