Tag Archives: sex education
Tennessee doesn’t even want kids to hold hands until marriage
Tweet While Gov. Walker was signing a shitty new abstinence-only bill, the Tennessee legislature was quietly outdoing everyone. Last week, the state updated its abstinence-only curriculum to ensure that teachers don’t encourage teh sexytimes with all their wanton hand-holding: Tennessee senators approved an update to the state’s abstinence-based sex education law that includes warnings against [...]
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The Academic Feminist: Transforming Sex Education with Mimi Arbeit
TweetWelcome back to The Academic Feminist, the series that bridges the blogging/academic divide by linking discussions in feminist academia to those taking place online. Today’s interviewee is Mimi Arbeit, a doctoral student in Child Development at Tufts University. You can learn more about Arbeit’s work on her blog. All comments and suggestions for The Academic [...]
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Anti-choice org on Planned Parenthood: Like drug dealers, but with sex
TweetIt’s truly hard to digest how hilarious this video is from the American Life League on Planned Parenthood and their “agenda” to lure your children into sex addiction with candy penis pops and vagina fruit roll-ups so they can sell them abortions and birth control. The gateway drug? Masturbation. I repeat, folks — this is [...]
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Yet another study says abortion doesn’t pose a mental health risk
TweetAnti-choice activists, I hope you’re sitting down. It turns out that, contrary to your wishful thinking, having an abortion does not increase the chances a woman* will suffer mental health issues. Of course, some of you anti-choicers won’t be convinced by this evidence because it was done by scientists, which you’ll find sketchy. But just [...]
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What do Peru and Utah have in common? Fierce youth advocates for starters