December 17, 2011
I read a newspaper article today about the ages in the UK at which men and women (or boys and girls, it turned out) are having sex. Its main thrust (ho,ho) was that women are tending to have sex for the first time at a younger age on average, with a recent survey revealing that ...
October 12, 2011
Young people in England and Wales are patronized and poorly informed by sex education in schools. Negativity from adults toward teenage sex, along with a lack of basic knowledge about pregnancy and STIs, were flagged up by a recent study commissioned by sexual health and advice service Brook. Young people rely on friends for information, ...
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June 9, 2011
Conservative parents have found something to complain about for every generation. First it was Elvis and his corrupting hip swings, then it was Marilyn Manson, and when I was a kid it was Harry Potter books with all their black magic and paganism. The current panic that conservative parents are trying to raise is that ...
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April 13, 2011
Dear Madame X, My wife thinks that it is time to explain the birds and bees to our twelve year old daughter. I think it is a little bit early for her to learn about sex but not in a damaging way, and my wife is adamant. My biggest worry is that she’ll tell her ...
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February 23, 2011
Dear Madame X, I walked in on my 13 year old son looking at an inappropriate website yesterday. I know it’s normal that he explores these things but there is a lot of scary and violent stuff online, and I don’t want him to confuse that with normal sexual relations. How do I explain that ...
September 16, 2010
We all know that nutrition and growth in childhood affects the rest of people’s lives, but did you know it also affects how much sex men will have? A Filipino study looked at baby boys and found that those who grew the fastest and were best nourished in the first six months of life would ...
July 21, 2010
Dear Madame X, I am a divorced man and my 12 year old daughter lives with me. She is a lovely, bright vibrant girl but she has started to worry too much about her appearance lately. This began around the time I suspect she found my online porn collection. There was nothing particularly weird there ...
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May 12, 2010
Dear Madame X, I saw an article on your website about BBW and it gave me hope. I am a large teenage girl and no one at school likes me. I ask my friends to ask boys whether they like bigger girls before I can talk to them but none of them say yes. I’ve ...
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February 1, 2010
So, yet again, Morning Quickie is bringing you a censorship story from the concerned parents of America. This time a school district banned Anne Frank’s Diary because of one parent’s concern “about the sexual nature of the vagina passage”. That’s right, only one person in the entire school district in Virginia thinks the passage is ...
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January 26, 2010
With sensational headlines about sex lessons for five-year-olds and transsexual lessons for kids, it turns out that the school sex education programs in the UK will be as comprehensive and age-appropriate as most of us thought anyway. That is, the school programs will “stress the importance of marriage and the challenges of parenthood”. After all ...
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