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On the heels of Valentine's Day (yes, I said it), would you give up sex to get your bills paid?
I’m laughing. I suppose it shouldn’t be funny, but I just received a press release that says women would rather pay bills than have sex. That’s the headline of the email, anyway.
The survey was conducted on behalf of BillFloat, a company that says it offers, “… consumers more time to pay their bills on time to help avoid late fees, overdraft charges, service termination and high cost loans.” It found that more than one-third of Americans would rather give up TV, digital devices, the Internet or sex if they could have their monthly bills paid by someone else. In fact, “… one in five (21 percent) women would abstain from sex for six months (as compared to only 16 percent of men willing to give up sex).” Conversely, more men would accept gaining 15 pounds and have their bills paid than women (just 5%). Priorities, people. Priorities! Continue reading »
If your kids don't get the 411 on sex in here, are you going to fill them in on all the dirty details? Really?
My daughters are little. Like, toddler little and newborn little. The very thought of them having sex is beyond disgusting. Perish the thought of them ever being sexual beings. Yuck!
But here’s the thing: some day they will grow to be women. Women who have sex (again, yuck!). As such, at some point they’ll need to learn about it (growing up and having sex). If I didn’t ensure they learned about both, I’d be a pretty bad mom, nay, a bad person.
I get the parents in New York City who are in an uproar over the sex education classes in which kids are learning firsthand about lubricants, oral sex and vibrators. But the truth is, I don’t really get the uproar.
The New York City Department of Education is about to start requiring one semester of sex ed in sixth or seventh grade, and then again in ninth or tenth grade. The information they get in there will be lots of practical stuff, like facts about abstinence, birth control, and STD and pregnancy prevention. But they’re also throwing a curve ball by way of teaching some other real stuff, like the safety of “intercourse using a condom and an oil-based lubricant,” mutual masturbation, French kissing, and anal sex, according to Jezebel. They’ll also learn about oral sex with braces, “doggie-style sex” and S&M fetishes.
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Here are some stats to strike fear in a parent’s heart: A new study reports that not only are a whole lot of teens having sex, some of them aren’t even waiting until they become teenagers to do it. The study, from University of Texas’ Health Sciences Center at Houston, reported that almost 1/4 of Texas pre-teens are having sex before they reach 8th grade. And a terrifying 10 PERCENT of them are having intercourse in 6th grade. That’s 12-years-old (or 11 for the younger kids who don’t get redshirted). That’s about 3 kids per average-size Texas public school classroom.
And the numbers don’t get any less scary as the kids get older. See the stats after the jump.
Keep Walking, Romeo!
WMC-TV in Memphis reported last week that over 90 female students at Frayser High have had or will have babies this year, and 20% of the total female students at the school are teen mothers. In an interview, 16-year-old mother Terrika Sutton had this to say about the school’s pregnancy epidemic:
“It’s a shame that all these girls at Frayser are pregnant. But it ain’t nothin’ new…. They need a class where they can teach the girls before they get pregnant, use protection and stuff. Don’t try to get pregnant.”
That’s where the radical Memphis-area “No Baby” program comes in. Continue reading »
Or so a new study says. The research, released Monday in the February edition of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, suggests an abstinence-based approach can be successful.
When you can take a shot at abstinence-only education, the former Governor of Alaska and vice-presidential runner-up and shill shelled nuts all in one blow, you must be some kind of genius. Or Levi Johnston.
School districts across Texas are introducing a whole new sex ed. curriculum this school year, and guess what’s not on it? Abstinence only.
Turns out the state with one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies in the entire country has finally figured it out – their kids aren’t actually abstinent! Continue reading »
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