Everyone’s always harping on about needing comprehensive sex education, but have you ever looked at the stats of who has the most teen pregnancies and STIs? It’s shocking how un-helpful abstinence-only education really is.
When you need emergency contraception, you need it fast with no questions asked, as it’s most effective if it’s taken within 24 hours. At Shippensburg University, a vending machine dispensing Plan B and pregnancy tests has been installed so students can have easy access to the emergency contraception pill. The best part is that young ...
In many places emergency contraception is available over the counter to women, including teenagers, but many pharmacies have no idea what the rules are. A survey of 943 pharmacies in five American states found that about half gave the wrong information to a 17-year-old woman on the phone about whether or not she could get ...
When President Barack Obama took office, he promised to restore “scientific integrity” to policy making. He also made promises to women about supporting their health issues. He failed on both accounts this week when he did not fight the decision of US Health and Human Services Secretary that blocked Plan B from being available over ...
Don’t we all wish that our sex education in school would have told us what sex was really about? Most of us have gone through the ubiquitous “Your body is changing talk” followed by the fear-inducing “Don’t do it or you’ll get pregnant” sermon. Yet, parents are still worried about a new sex-education campaign in ...
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, ...
A new study finds that girls are following in the footsteps of their big sisters and getting pregnant at a young age. Is it contagious? The study of more than 42,000 Norwegian girls found that if sisters are of a similar age or come from a poorer background, they are more likely to follow suit. ...
After having to dish out co-payments and deductibles for many years, American women finally have a reason to celebrate. Recently, Institute of Medicine (IOM) health experts issued a recommendation to the government pushing health insurance companies to fully cover birth control, among other health services for women. Well, it’s now a done deal. Contraceptives for ...
Women have been shelling out the dough for birth control for years in the US, but it seems some relief may be on the horizon.
For all the myths about British sexual repression, I reckon this place is pretty darn open about sex. But the current government have lately become worried about the sexualization of children in the UK. Teenage pregnancy has actually dropped by 5.9 percent since 2008 but this is a government who won’t let the facts get ...
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...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
