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Arguments For Early Comprehensive Sex Education

Arguments For Early Comprehensive Sex Education

March 10, 2011 1 Comment

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 ...

Resources Needed For Teaching Sex Education

Resources Needed For Teaching Sex Education

October 29, 2010 No Comments

Most parents (90%) want their children to get sex education in schools, but most teachers (80%) are at a loss as to how to do it right. These results of a survey of teachers, parents, and govenors (by the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, National Association of Head Teachers, and National Governors Association in partnership with Durex ...

Half A Million Cases Of STIs In UK

Half A Million Cases Of STIs In UK

August 25, 2010 No Comments

Part of the problem of looking at statistics for STIs is that often higher numbers are related to better testing and reporting methods. But either way, having half a million cases of STIs in the UK is something that needs to be addressed. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) just released a report saying that this ...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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