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Sex Angst Revealed and Sex Research Proposed
Another quickie for you, and I swear I'll get back to some serious blogging soon:Debbie Nathan has another great Sex Angst Roundup. This one spotlights stories on the impact of early teen sexual...
View ArticleCongress Kills Matthew Shepard Bill by attaching it to Military Funding Bill
How to kill the Matthew Shepard Act without really trying:The Matthew Shepard Act passed the House of Representatives pretty easily, but it was in trouble at the Senate. The Senate's solution? Insert...
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I read it for the pictures (The New York Times, that is)
These two pictures accompany an article in this morning's Times on the presidential candidates' use of their opposition to NCLB (which stands for No Child Left Behind, not No Cheerleader left behind")...
View ArticleNewsflash: The economy causes poverty
Thanks to Deborah Siegel at Girl with Pen (and to Feministing via which I discovered GWP) for this report on Frank Furstenburg's recent briefing paper on teen pregnancy and poverty.The headline as she...
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FCC: Men's butts are not sexual but women's are!
This story about the FCC planning to fine ABC 1.4 million dollars over a shot of naked female buttocks on NYPD Blue back in 2003 is all over the net this morning.The best comment I've seen about it so...
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Teen sex activism (and education)
Via two of my favorite blogs yesterday I learned about some kids who really put the lie to the assumption that teens are too immature to handle clear conversation about sex. First, from Jessica at...
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A very cool condom campaign aimed at teens ... and Congress!
Thanks to Feministing I learned about Condom Awareness Week before the week was quite over. In any case, as a result of that post I surfed over to the Advocates for Youth condom campaign page where...
View ArticleWright found guilty of murdering five women in Ipswich
Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell, and Annette NichollsThose are the names of the five women, sex workers each one, who were murdered in 2006. I vividly remember attending the...
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International Sex Workers Rights Day
Today is International Sex Workers' Rights Day. Here are two events listed on the Bound, Not Gagged blog:In North Carolina: SWOP East (Sex Worker Outreach Project East) will host a free movie night to...
View ArticleQuickie: Same Sex Marriage In California? Not quite yet.
With a one-vote majority, California's Supreme Court overturned a law banning same-sex marriage yesterday (PDF of decision). The case is a consolidation of appeals to the same court's ruling in 2004...
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