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Teaching Abstinence Doesn’t Work: Palin’s Preggo Kid.
By Cole Gamble, on Thu Sep 4, 2008 6:48pm PDTThis is a topic that's not gonna get a lot
of play from the Obama camp. People would call bringing a
17-year-old pregnant girl into a political debate just mean. I
don't care; I think it needs to be discussed because Bristol
Palin's situation launches a fiery hot cannonball right into...
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Female Chastity Piercing Available On Amazon
By The Frisky, on Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:00pm PDTSomehow, a few of us at The Frisky got to talking about genital piercings, and it came up in our conversation that some women use piercings as a kind of chastity belt -- a female chastity piercing, if you will. We did a little Googling to see exactly what this entails, and not only did we find that... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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College Confessional: We don't need no (sex) education
By Em and Lo, The Daily Bedpost, on Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:41am PDTOur intern Kristine deGuzman, a junior at UC Berkeley, says she feels like she spent her entire summer discussing birth control and safer sex with her friends. "I guess that's what happens when half of your friends used to be avid churchgoers."
I grew up in a conservative Catholic environment for the great bulk of my existence, all the way from Kindergarten to my senior year in high school. I learned the exact opposite of safe sex--I learned that birth control would kill me, condoms would fail and I would get pregnant, and that abstinence was the only way to save me from the wickedness of sex and the deadly effects of birth control. It seems like, of all my friends, I should be the one with the mental handicap concerning sexual matters. I mean, I had to look up "how to do a ----- " halfway through my freshman year in college. Seriously, I did that.
Yet somehow I've become the sex guru among my friends, and I can't believe how many times I've had to tell them, "No, birth control pills do not fail 90 percent of the time" and, "No, Plan B is not the abortion pill."...
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A Little Ditty on Women's Reproductive Rights and the Bush Administration's Massacre of Them.
By Lover's Sunshine, on Thu Aug 7, 2008 9:27am PDTSince I went through all this work to post this comment on Secretary Leavitt's blog, I figure'd I'd post it here as well: I believe that the right to use contraception or get an abortion should be left to each individual woman and couple. That simple. All of this argument... Read More »
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My So-Called Sex Life: Orgasmic Abstinence - How Long Did You Make Him Wait?
By Andrea Frazer, Good Housekeeping, on Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:06pm PDTI was raised Catholic. Not surprisingly, we were taught to wait for marriage to have sex. Regardless of abstinence being drilled in our heads, my all girls parochial school was very progressive when it came to sex ed. Not only did we learn every slang word known to man, we were shown different types... Read More »
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Pro-Life Pharmacy....leading to more abortions?
By Michelle, on Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:58am PDTI was reading Amelia at The Frisky's Blog. She posted this about Pro-Life Pharmacy's: "DMC Pharmacy in Chantilly, Virginia, will sell everything from cold meds to contact solution when it opens this summer, but if you want condoms, birth control pills, or any other form of... Read More »
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All My Virgins, Put Your Vs in the Air!
By Melisma, on Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:54pm PDTWhen I read this blog post by Colin Adamo, I knew I would have to take issue with it. This article represents exactly what is wrong with society, and why young people like me feel pressured to have sex. Read More »
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