All posts tagged "Condoms"

There was some confusion Thursday on the set of CNN's "News Central" when Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) claimed the U.S. has spent millions of dollars on condoms for the Taliban.

Carter is on the DOGE Caucus, charged with finding inefficiencies in government spending, and his assertion took anchor Boris Sanchez aback.

Carter claimed, "The U.S. aid that was cut off should have been cut off. I mean, $15 million in condoms for the Taliban? $47,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia? Please!" ...

You'd think that someone who had her first child as a teenager and then managed to get pregnant again by someone else out of wedlock would be a staunch supporter of birth control. But Bristol Palin never ceases to amaze the public with her ill-advised blog of buffoonery, where lessons are rarely learned.

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This week, in anticpation of the upcoming WAM Prom on Friday, I'll be blogging some thoughts on music and culture by the way of our mash-up theme of hip-hop and disco.

I'm sure you've seen this story that's been passed around about the supposed "health" editor at xoJane who uses Plan B as her primary form of contraception. (Seriously, how rarely are you getting laid that this even seems like a remotely feasible plan of action?) There was much fail in that piece, including her casual assumption that condoms are only there if you sleep with a subjectively-defined "many people", as if STDs are the result of cumulative stranger-seed instead of exposure to contagious germs. This sort of thing might make you wonder---I know it made  me wonder---if younger people these days have been so poisoned by creeping prudery plus abstinence-only education that behavior like Cat's, which indicates a deep ambivalence about the morality of sexual pleasure, is common. I know it made me long for the days when Salt 'n' Pepa were talking about sex and TLC was flinging condoms around, and the pursuit of female sexual pleasure was taken as a right, instead of treated like some foul thing that requires self-punishment through repeated abortions. Or worse.