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 ...
The HPV vaccine, which guards against the human papillomavirus which can lead to cervical cancer, could lead to unsafe sex according to a new US study. The study showed that 23.6 percent of young women taking the HPV vaccine believed the vaccination could guard against other sexually transmitted infections. And 3.8 percent believed they wouldn’t ...
About seven percent of teen girls are having group sex, according to a recent study conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine. They looked at any sexual experience from a modest threesome to the more advanced orgy. Of the 328 14 to 20-year-olds surveyed, over half said they were pressured and 43 percent claim ...
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 ...
Does “teen” plus “texting” always equal “sexting?” Although some parents may think it’s fairly harmless, especially if it means their teen is not actually performing a pas de deux, we must be fully aware of what sexting implies. How much sex is in sexting? We should also reflect on the danger of minors taking and sending ...
Parents in PEI are attempting to ban a book that they think is too sexual for their teenagers. But is it that bad? Subversive. Indecent. Sexually explicit. These are just a few terms attempting to justify banning books. Although I am one among many supporters of Freedom to Read Week, I can accept that educators don’t choose ...
Is it weird for the chair of discipline at the Ontario College of Teachers to write a book about sexual hijinks at a high school in Toronto? Well, if it is or isn’t, it sure making parents take a closer look at their school administrators. Jacques Tremblay was one of the most important education officials ...
New anti-abuse campaign teaches teens what a real relationship should be and what an abusive one really is. Teens may seem like they must know it all much earlier. But why, when a poll was completed on abuse, did 46 percent of teens think that Rihanna was to blame for the big Chris Brown scandal? ...
A girl brings a boy home for the first time. A beer-bellied father appears, looks at the boy and says “I have a shotgun and I know how to use it.” Or sometimes it’s “I have a gun, a shovel, and a lot of land upstate.” We all know the image: a protective father “protecting” ...
High school offers young students a lot of valuable things: an education, discipline, socialization, condoms — wait, what? As it turns out, school districts across the US are debating whether or not to distribute free condoms to high school students. Many schools are showing startling increases in HIV and other STI rates, leading some officials ...
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...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
