Category Archives: Education

The Big (Corrupt) Business of Abstinence-Only Education

Not only is abstinence-only sex “education” (where’s the education, exactly?) without evidence in reducing STI’s and unwanted pregnancies, now its crooked money trail is starting to unravel, as well.
Out in this week’s Nation, The Abstinence Gluttons tracks the neoconservative anti-abortion, anti-comprehensive sex education agenda, and reveals it for the cashgrab that it is. [...]

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HOW TO: Talk About Sex In Public

Really, this is more of a “WHERE TO:”, as first the public sphere itself requires a bit of hasty, sure to leave out-CRUCIAL DISCOURSE defining before the heady stuff of content and context get had at properly.
So. Where? And for god’s sake, what about the children (oh, USA Today)?
In a classroom. One [...]

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Viral Sex Education is Taboo

I’M TABOO is a d.i.y. media advocacy campaign organized by Sex, Etc., promoting comprehensive sex education that addresses not only disease and risk prevention, but pleasure and positive sexual self image. Aimed at high school aged folks, the project encourages young adults to make their own videos about what’s so taboo about wanting to [...]

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We Make Art Not Sex: Rubber Lover

(by Janaina Tschäpe, via sexblo.gs)

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HPV Vaccine Getting Smacked Around Again

Oh, HPV vaccine, it’s been a hard year. People accused you of making girls slutty, like in Texas, where efforts to make you mandatory for girls aged 11 and 12 are stalled in the State Legislature. Now the Los Angeles Times says you “may be less effective than previously thought,” though of [...]

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From the Awkward Sex Files

Special to the “Awkward Safer Sex Activism” Department:

(thx, mister.)

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HOWTO: “Fantasy Sex” Me

We’ve been a bit stolen away by the DC Madam case, but this week return with an especially topical HOWTO, on her favorite non-sex act, ‘fantasy sex.’ (Now with teeshirt available, step right up.)
There’s certainly a tantalizing polarity embedded in the idea of “fantasy sex,” that oldie-but-nasty fantasy vs. reality argument. We’re not [...]

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Oh, Please Don’t Go Getting Your Safer Sex Education From digg

We’ve tried, we’ve tried, and we’ve failed to keep any regular sexual tabs on digg. Simply put: a) a story on digg needn’t even touch upon sodomy to bring out some users’ inner homophobes-cum-AssholeTeenageBoys (no, that’s not a gay porn); b) when so much sex online is so bad, and then you throw [...]

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Gird Your Loins — And Your ‘Intravagina’ — From ‘Penis Power’

Circulating today: Alexyss Tylor, host of this Atlanta cable access show, illuminates how “not all penises are created equal,” why women use vibrators as an expression of submission to the penis, what it’s like for men to “ejaculate all over your brain,” and other non-sex advice. Oh, do we need to be keeping an [...]

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HOWTO: Be A Bossy Lover

Let’s get super-juvenile and play a game of I Never…, yes? I never… had my phone put in my hand by my lover to call in late to work as their hands… I never… blew off a deadline, a meeting, a project, a career for a blow… I never… used to get turned [...]

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