All posts tagged "Sex Ed"

The internet is buzzing after Charlie Sheen's Today Show appearance, where he announced that he has been HIV positive for more than four years. I shouldn't be surprised that memes and jokes about Sheen #notwinning would be trending on social media, but speculation about his behavior leading up to his diagnosis and the subsequent online reaction was upsetting.

A 17-year-old boy is facing a whopping 10 years in prison for what 54 percent of teens confess to doing - sexting nude photos of himself to his girlfriend.

Bristol Palin just revealed that she's pregnant with her second child out of wedlock, and as suspected, she's being ridiculed for being a hypocrite on quite a few social issues. While she is on the record against gay marriage and reproductive rights, the most laughable component of the story has to do with how Palin made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for the Candies Foundation, an organization that attempts to prevent teen pregnancy through abstinence education.

A study has shown that while the U.S. is currently enjoying a steady decline in the number of teen pregnancies, states with sex ed and health classes that stress "abstinence-only" education rank the highest in the numbers of underage pregnancies, according to a post at Think Progress.

Linda Chavez goes back to the allegation that Barack Obama wanted your five year olds to learn about double-ended dildos and plumbs it for all that it's worth. You'll remember the first time this popped up, our intrepid Man-Boy Detective discovered a very sordid underbelly: a bill primarily about changing sex-ed practices for sixth to twelfth graders was talked about in a way as if its purpose was primarily to change sex-ed practices for sixth to twelfth graders. There were, however, provisions that allowed for age-appropriate sex education focused on bad touching and abuse for kindergarteners. You learn this through reading the bill. Linda, on the other hand, read Byron York's halfassed reading of the bill, and she's angry: