Posts Tagged ‘sexual health’
The 13th Annual Sexual Intelligence Awards® honor individuals and organizations who challenge the sexual fear, unrealistic expectations, and government hypocrisy that undermine love, sex, & relationships—and political freedom—today. Last year’s winners were Dr. Larry Magid, Internet Child Safety Advocate; Dr. Debby Herbenick, Sex Researcher and Author; best-seller Sex At Dawn, by Christopher Ryan & Cacilda [...]
The platforms of both major parties are out. When it comes to sex, one is bad, the other worse. So listen up, Dems and GOPers, here’s the sexual health plank you desperately need. Presidential aspirants, steal this material at will, and promise the following: * Sex education: All sex education must be scientifically and medically [...]
Pornography is not meant to be sex education. It’s fiction, period. Nevertheless, with the enforced ignorance of abstinence-only sex “education,” most families’ and couples’ discomfort discussing sex seriously, and mainstream Christianity’s taboos about sexual reality, most people find themselves needing more information about sexuality. If they’re fortunate, they manage to find a smart book or [...]
Pornography is not meant to be sex education. It’s fiction, period. Nevertheless, with the enforced ignorance of abstinence-only sex “education,” most families’ and couples’ discomfort discussing sex seriously, and mainstream Christianity’s taboos about sexual reality, most people find themselves needing more information about sexuality. If they’re fortunate, they manage to find a smart book or [...]
Pornography is not meant to be sex education. It’s fiction, period. Nevertheless, with the enforced ignorance of abstinence-only sex “education,” most families’ and couples’ discomfort discussing sex seriously, and mainstream Christianity’s taboos about sexual reality, most people find themselves needing more information about sexuality. If they’re fortunate, they manage to find a smart book or [...]
Pornography is not meant to be sex education. It’s fiction, period. Nevertheless, with the enforced ignorance of abstinence-only sex “education,” most families’ and couples’ discomfort discussing sex seriously, and mainstream Christianity’s taboos about sexual reality, most people find themselves needing more information about sexuality. If they’re fortunate, they manage to find a smart book or [...]
Pornography is not meant to be sex education. It’s fiction, period. Nevertheless, with the enforced ignorance of abstinence-only sex “education,” most families’ and couples’ discomfort discussing sex seriously, and mainstream Christianity’s taboos about sexual reality, most people find themselves needing more information about sexuality. If they’re fortunate, they manage to find a smart book or [...]
In July, the International AIDS Conference is being held in the United States for the first time in over twenty years, after the successful repeal of the ban on HIV-positive foreign nationals entering the US. However, US immigration law still bars entrance to anyone who has engaged in sex work in the past 10 years – even if they have no criminal convictions or work…
Posted: July 5th, 2012
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Right-wingers seem to have a deep-seated fear of women’s sexual rights Reposted with permission from RH Reality Check There’s a tendency among prominent anti-choicers to speak elliptically of their beliefs, knowing that straightforward statements of hostility to sex and women’s rights tend to run ordinary people off. But occasionally one of them gets a little…
April is Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month, and as a veteran of public health, I’ve seen STD Awareness Months come and go. But this April there is an extra urgency among public health officials and practitioners to prevent and decrease STDs. I think folks are right to feel that way for a couple of…