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As someone who teaches comprehensive sexuality education, I particularly enjoyed Jane Jimenez’s recent delusional stream of consciousness everything has gone to hell op-ed.
Jimenez (who for reasons that are obvious only to wingnuts) has a national platform from which to speak, blathers that
Abstinence education shines a light on the problems inherent in promoting sex as entertainment without [...]

Yesterday at the PPAC Liberty Luncheon, the keynote speaker said this is the question to ask anytime we’re discussing reproductive freedoms:
Under what circumstances would you force a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term?

The folks at Trojan Condoms have a new commercial out - view it here - that has garnered responses that highlight America’s deep ambivalence about sexuality.
At the Trojan Evolve website, they include a series of stats that back up the assertion that America is not a sexually healthy nation - rates of unintended pregnancy, STI [...]

Lots of bloggy goodness out there today.
Check out Jill’s post at feministe: File Under: Get pregnant, lose your civil liberties:
Ah, the things politicians will do in the name of protecting babies! Now, we all know that the term “protecting babies,” when uttered by a “pro-life” individual, is usually code for “reminding women that they are [...]

In her usual trenchant way, Elizabeth Wood summarizes the problem with discussion of sexuality in our society:
I keep thinking about this discussion we’ve been having about “protecting” people from sex, or sexually explicit material. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that quite often our efforts at protection do more harm [...]

You know how every one in a while, an invention comes along that seems so obvious AFTER you see it? Like mountain bikes and roller blades? This one of them.

Why didn’t I think of that? See demo. …and how we did it in the olden days.
BBC Article

As part of an earlier discussion, Caveat asked:
“How do we steer our ponderous educational contraption towards a more humane and less fundamentalist, path?”
With regard to public education, it’s important to understand that there is a swath of the American public that distrusts public education. To these folks, education is problematic because it teaches things [...]

Hat tip to Jill at feministe.
There’s so many things wrong with this!
TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
But that’s not the worst of it.

While she was behind [...]

34 years ago today the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.  In honor of that, a number of feminist bloggers have declared today Blog For Choice Day and encouraged people to discuss their reasons for being prochoice.  For a complete list or participants visit here, at Bushvcoice.com.
Elizabeth Anne Wood has a great post discussing her reasons for [...]

Two Three very interesting posts this week about sexuality education.
From Elizabeth Anne Wood’s always informative Sex in the Public Square, her commentary on a proposed law in Texas that would require parents to opt their children into sexuality education.  Under the current Texas law, parents must opt out - the default position results in children receiving sexuality education.  [...]

So it’s New Year’s Eve. Most people are either celebrating, looking back on the year past and looking forward to the coming year.
I’m watching - for the first time in quite a while - the 1972 film What’s Up Doc? In the tradition of the screwball comedy of the 30s, it takes a [...]

So seriously, there was no way I could let this one pass without commenting.
It seems that 95% of Americans have had premarital sex.  Even more interesting, the rate has been stable since the 1950s.  It gets better - by their 40’s 99% of Americans have had sex.  Amanda as pandagon wins the award for pithiest response:
the [...]