For parents, sex education is a strange mix of awkwardness and controversy. Not everyone is comfortable with sex, even as an adult, and that may effect how (or if) they talk about sex with their kids. Most people agree that parents should have some sort of sex talk with their kids, but a recent sex ...
Abstinence-only education is designed to keep teens from the risks associated with sexual activity, in their adolescence and later in life. A new study is here to prove this theory completely wrong. Sure, waiting to have sex removes any potential pregnancies, STIs or other risks associated with bumping uglies. What you don’t do, won’t hurt ...
Teaching a child to apply a condom on a banana is almost saying: “Now go and try this for yourself.” That’s what Conservative MP Nadine Dorries said to the British parliament as an argument in favour of requiring schools to start abstinence classes for teenage girls. According to Dorries, current sex education just isn’t cutting ...
Girls are naive, vulnerable, precious creatures who need to be coddled and protected from sexually aggressive boys. And yes, all boys are sexually aggressive. At least that’s what the UK parliament would have us believe with a new bill they are trying to turn to law that sees 13- to 16-year-old girls only being required to take ...
Rather than making a conscious choice to remain abstinent until marriage or at least experiencing a serious relationship, women are keeping their V cards without thinking too much about it. It’s no secret that women have carved out a large spot for themselves on the university scene over the years. Women continue to get scholarships, ...
There are many arguments for and against sex education being taught early and comprehensively. The opponents usually cite the fact that they don’t want their kids to have sex. Sex should be for adults in marriage (or at least long term committed relationships). Their kids would never do that, they raised them better. Kids need ...
Yuck! Who would be addicted to semen? Apparently, your vagina. Women who have regular unprotected sex can become depressed when they go through dry-spells, according to a study of 300 women by New York State University. However, they are less likely to be depressed, or commit suicide, than the women who regularly use condoms. The ...
The Pope is coming to the UK for the first time since 1982 and he is causing a lot of fuss, just not the kind you would expect. Instead of hundreds of supporters lining up to show their piousness, they are struggling to sell tickets for his speaking events. People are either ambivalent or outraged. The ...
When an awkward situation arises do you ever wish that you could stop time, figure out how to respond, and then deal with it? Educators are developing a virtual sex game to teach girls how to fend off advances. Using a motion-capture suit, they will be placed in situations and will earn points for the ...
Imagine a review of Twilight written by a middle aged Englishman who hates romance and thinks that vampires are the lamest monster ever. Oh yes, it happened. And it’s even funnier than you think. Charlie Brooker is a columnist for the Guardian who just found out that Twilight is a love story. Yesterday. His inexplicable ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
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Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
