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UN report: China lagging in sex ed
By Frederika Whitehead Awareness among China’s 161 million 15-24-year-olds is poor, while sex education and services are said to be inadequate. China has a lot of work to do if it wants to provide adequate sexual health services for its 161 million 15- to 24-year-olds. A recent report funded by the…
Rejecting the “self-discipline” framework
Sam at Skepchick has an AI up that I think is probably one of the most clear-cut examples I’ve seen in a long time of how framing an issue really suggests the answers. The post is about obesity and nutrition-related diseases like diabetes and heart disease, and he throws out…
Ohio lawmaker introduces bill regulating men’s access to Viagra
An Ohio state senior is using her frustration with state-level pushes to restrict women’s access to reproductive health services, such as limiting coverage in their insurance plans, to flip the script with a new bill that would require men to take certain steps before obtaining a prescription to Viagra. According…
HPV and vaccination: one blogger’s obsession
I think I'm mildly obsessed with the HPV vaccination and the resistance to it. The whole thing is a perfect storm of important issues for me: science and skepticism, feminism, public health policy, sexual health, religious delusions, the power that folk beliefs have over human choices, emotional vs. rational decision-making,…
Adorable!
This is why we can't have nice things (via Atrios): Single father George only wants the best for his 16-year-old daughter, Tessa. So when he finds a box of condoms on her nightstand, he moves them out of their apartment in New York City to a house in the suburbs.…
I Would Hate Not Having Sex With You
Kathryn Lopez decides to write about Planned Parenthood’s “Take Care Down There” campaign, a frank and forthright series of web videos about sexual health. Because their primary focus in sex is about the sex part rather than the shameful herpes-shooting eyes of God prying into every instance of premarital coitus,…
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