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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
` Time Magazine’ `Lisa Abend’ Between gay marriage, decriminalized abortion and all that pornography on TV, you'd think that the Spanish would be impossible to shock. After all, theirs is a country that in the past couple of decades has not merely evolved from its conservative, Catholic past but has rushed dramatically away from it. But teen [...]
Time (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Spain is in an uproar over Extremadura's decision to host seminars promoting "sexual self-exploration" among teenagers. The display of sex toys
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Most debates over sex education revolve around the choice between promoting strictly abstinence versus teaching students about safe sex. But a region in Spain is breaking open a new can of worms in its decision to launch a campaign on masturbation . Why do nations with strong Roman Catholic underpinnings, like Spain, take more liberal approaches to sex education than many of their Anglo counterparts?...
Irenic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Mark Regnerus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post called Say Yes. What are you waiting for? in which he advocated for what he called early marriage. Not exactly teen marriage, he was speaking in favor of 20-22 year olds marrying. He reports that it has become inc reasingly common for marriage to be delayed until a...
ESTHETICS (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
80% An interesting book about the medical non existence of sexual virginity whose mere abstraction designed to oppress women. Such a concept is also a backdoor means of discussing and defining sex – the same similarly problematic concept that ex US president Bill Clinton discovered after claiming he did 'not have sex with that woman!' What we consider to be sex also determines what we deem to...
Eschaton (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
I just saw the latest Harry Potter movie, and frankly what I liked about it was non-judgmental portrayals of teen drinking and teen sexuality. More generally, it did a good job of treating the now relatively old teens as... not children.
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Karen Rayne of Adolescent Sexuality, who teaches both sex education to early adolescents and sex-ed instruction to education majors has an interesting take on summer/vacation flings for teenagers. Vacation flings can range from more emotional connection and no physical connection to an exclusively sexual experience. They can last a weekend, or a week, or several weeks. Some of them are remembered and...
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
A while ago Karen Rayne of Adolescent Sexuality by Dr. Karen Rayne , who both teaches sex ed in middle school and teaches college students how to become sex educators, mentioned in a "too busy to write about it now" post that Sexual harassment is prevalent in many middle and high schools - maybe even most of them. But in two recent classes I led on the topic, the students started off believing...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
Most directors with few movies to their credit might well be daunted by the challenge of bringing an awards-laden Broadway musical to the screen, not least when it addresses teen sexuality, rape, abortion, masturbation and death by suicide. But the film-maker known as McG (full name Joseph McGinty Nichol) is rising to the task, taking on the movie of , the rock opera set in 19th-century Germany and...
Classically Liberal (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
There is a strong case to be made that young adolescents ought not to be having sex. That said, is adolescent sexuality one of those areas where “oughts” should not be the concern of the state. It is one thing to say that teens ought not have sex and another to treat them like dangerous felons, including jail time, for doing so. England seems obsessed with the case of Chantelle Steadman,...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Nikol Hasler, the brilliant creator of the Midwest Teen Sex Show , has a new series on the Public Internet Channel . Real American Family will also cover teen sexuality issues, but will also cover issues parents can relate to. Episode One covers single parenting.
JustOneMinute (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
Ann Althouse goes off on Judith Warner and the Times coverage of the latest survey of teen sexuality, which reported that more than half of high school students have remained virgins.But what caught our eye was the Times lead to...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
A group that " celebrate[s] the inherent goodness of adolescent sexuality " and calls for clergy to "speak out against... coercive parental notification and consent for reproductive health services" has just released a study that concludes by calling on American theological seminaries to go over the birds and bees with their students. Yet in reporting on the study by the Religious...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
THE kids are learning a lot more than math while at school, according to a survey of teen sexuality by "The Tyra Banks Show." According to the online survey, 14 percent of teen girls claim to have had sex while at school and one in five hopes to be...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Last summer, as you may have heard, a group of pregnant but otherwise unremarkable high school girls in a tiny Massachusetts fishing village became temporary repositories for our collective ire on teen sexuality, taking over for Ellen Page and Jamie Lynn Spears before ceding ground once again to girls more accustomed to the public eye -- like, say, the daughter of a vice-presidential candidate. If...
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