Etiquette lessons are going to be mandatory for Chinese children in order to improve their “uncultured manners.” New guidelines for teachers require them to teach etiquette to all school children so they will be better behaved. Primary school students will learn “the intricacies of basic decorum, respecting elders and proper table manners.” Middle school students will ...
With all the information floating around cyberspace about sex it looks like something is missing: what happens after that baby is born? A survey of over 2,000 18- to 25-year-olds in the UK found some astonishing results. –20% think pregnancy lasts a year –10% think eating red meat influences the sex of the baby –50% think ...
America is famous for its abstinence-only funding for sex education program. And sexual health experts are famous for their fight against these programs because, as we all know, these programs do not work. It looks like Obama has heard our cries because American schools are finally getting funding for comprehensive sex education. A five-year, $375 ...
Some people claim that sexually active teenagers are all risk takers, trouble makers, and going to hell in a handbasket. That’s just not true. Researchers have finally sorted out casual from serious teen relationships and it looks like it’s not as simple as sex being bad.
No kidding?! I think we all knew that being a teenage mum was a problem. Both the mum and baby are likely to be underweight (and all the problems that come with that). But what can we do about it? Researchers looked at 50,000 women between 14 and 29 to see how their pregnancies fared. ...
Last year British kids almost got sex education as a requirement in their school curriculum from age 15. But it was dropped right before the election. Now, a public health advisory group (NICE) has again said that sex education should start from age five. It’s time to stop talking and get on with starting the program! ...
In November we happily reported that sex education would be mandatory in British schools from the age of 15. Sadly, in the rush to push a few bills through parliament before the election next month, this policy has been scrapped. Looks like parents will be able to withdraw their children from sex education all through ...
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 ...
Yes, you read that right. Because a dictionary contains “oral sex” schools in a district of California have pulled it from the shelves. This really is censorship gone mad.
School boys in Australia are going to get lessons on “Respectful Relationships Education” to help combat violence against women. Critics have come down on this education program claiming that it will be full of “feminist propaganda” and demonise the boys. Why is it that whenever people hear about feminist theory they get their backs up? Feminism ...
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
