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A West Virginia high school student is filing an injunction against her principal, who she claims is threatening to punish her for speaking out against a factually inaccurate abstinence assembly at her school. Katelyn Campbell, who is the student body vice president at George Washington High School, alleges her principal threatened to call the college […]
Sex apparently is like income: People are generally happy when they keep pace with the Joneses and they’re even happier if they get a bit more.That’s one finding of Tim Wadsworth, an ass
A new book delivers surprising news about male sexuality — including that, yes, some guys are really fooling you
‘Conference organizer Taormino insisted that porn is “absolutely” the right word (instead of “erotica”). “By not using the term porn, we’re caving in to this idea that porn is low class, for men, not by us or for us.” She calls her own porn, such as FPA winner The Ultimate Guide to Pegging, “organic, free-trade porn,” and urged consumers and creators to take a page from the organic food movement. “We have to make connections between fair labor practices even when the labor being performed is sex. If you care about the conditions under which your food was made and the conditions under which your jeans were made, then you should care about the conditions under which your pornography is made. You should be willing to pay a little more.”’
In the past month I was inseminated for the first time, masturbated in a circle with 10 naked women and watched myself onscreen in an interactive documentary. None of these things is particularly strange for me. However, I do feel like I’ve been in a blender on the high setting.
Enhance the UK - are a user-led charity aiming to educate society about disability and assist those with a disability in playing a full and active role in society.
“Created Equal” is an incredible photo project by photographer Mark Laita which focuses on the contrast between people’s lives and cultures through beautiful portraits in black and white.
Viewing sexually explicit programs or content on websites may not truly influence whether a young adult will have risky sex or lots of partners, a new study from the Netherlands shows. Watching porn only affects sexual behavior a little bit…
Hurray for correlational research!
“While still an emerging genre, feminist porn now makes up approximately 10 per cent of the multibillion-dollar porn universe, says Carlyle Jansen, founder of the Toronto sex shop Good For Her, which puts on the Feminist Porn Awards, now in their 8th year and growing in popularity annually. It’s a sign that the tenets of feminist porn are beginning to bleed into the mainstream adult industry. There is also substantial overlap between feminist directors, producers and performers working in the mainstream adult industry, including alongside big companies like Wicked, Vivid Entertainment and New Sensations. It’s estimated that 65 per cent of the actors now act in both alternative and mainstream films.”
Promoting or at least discussing pleasure has been shown to increase consistent condom use and other forms of safer sex, says Doortje Braeken
Journeyman NBA center Jason Collins has come out as gay, the first active professional major team sport athlete to do so. He wrote an article for Sports Illustrated (that hits newsstands May 6) and came out on his terms in his own words. I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay…
Teens who received sex-ed instruction in school waited longer to have sex than those who hadn’t learned about abstinence and contraception.
“It’s not just the delay in first sex that’s important,” says Lindberg. “It’s that being older at first sex in and of itself is related to more positive sexual behaviors such as being more likely to use birth control and less likely to get pregnant. The fact that sex ed can delay sex a little still has big influences down the road.”
“…pediatricians and adolescent health professionals are in an ideal position to teach adolescents about contraception before they become sexually active, and to make methods available to their patients in advance of first sex, which can help improve teen health outcomes. They are also well placed to screen for unwanted sexual activity among patients of all ages.”
New budget language, adopted by Ohio Republicans, prohibits the teaching of sexual education coursework that endorses non-abstinence as an acceptable behavior or promotes sexual gateway activity.
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