ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
A Nov. 24 MRC Culture & Media Institute commentary by Matt Philbin is headlined, "Iowa Parents Lose to Sex Ed Lobby." But it would be more accurately headlined "Censorship Effort Fails." The issue is a periodical on sex education available in the teen section of a public library in Ames, Iowa. Parents had protested it, but the library board voted to continue to make it available....
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations HIV/AIDS campaign, or UNAIDS for short (good acronym, right'), was formally released yesterday for the first time in China. Though the report only shows cases reported by medical facilities and could thus be far higher, the dissemination is a major step in understanding and fighting AIDS in the country. First, the facts from Shanghai Daily...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
When your rights and responsibilities as a parent come in conflict with the liberal education establishment, who wins? Parents in Ames, Iowa just found out, and it’s not them. Over the weekend, the Ames Library Board voted 6 -1 to allow the continued display and distribution of the magazine Sex, Etc. in the teen section of the public library. Sex Etc. is a free periodical written “by teens,...
Chocolate-Covered Katie (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It’s like Thanksgiving all rolled up in a ball . Children be warned. The following is a possible result of not using protection when you have a boyfriend who looks like this. (How’s that for a sex-education lesson') . On second thought, these babies look pretty darn good! My, what lovely children you have, Mr. Scarecrow . Pumpkin Pie Babies For [...]
Futurelab (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Earlier this year we posted a series of examples of online communities in the TV industry . We looked at the way ‘old’ and ‘new’ media combine, how television broadcasters and production companies are working with online media. The examples we chose were all of ways in which online communities can be used to provide an additional set of experiences for a viewer, often after...
ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
How did you learn about the finer points of sex? Maybe you watched that awkward sex education video that was filmed a good 20 years before your time and made sex out to be a clinical and methodical process.
SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
from Victoria's Sex Blog As I get older, it’s becoming clearer to me that we really know nothing about anything until we’ve actually experienced it. And we’re never really prepared for it until we get there. I just read a most disturbing report about the impact of Internet pornography on youth and children by two Montreal reporters, Isabelle Maher and Martin Bisaillon - if you read...
Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A Spanish region's new approach to sex education has provoked anger by suggesting children be taught "self-exploration and self-pleasure". Teaching teenagers to whack off is a bit like teaching fish to swim, although I'm sure once Ed Balls realises the potential to increase pass rates we will have a GCSE in the subject in this country too. I did like this comment: "Extremadura should...
Atheist Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Think Progress is reporting that the Senate version of the health care bill restores funding for abstinence-only sex education after Obama's FY2010 budget eliminate it. I'm sure you will remember that the reason it was cut from the budget in the first place was that abstinence-only sex education does not work. And yet, it has somehow made it into the Senate bill. It sounds like we have Sen. Orrin Hatch...
One Utah (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
At One News Now – the house organ of the arch-conservative group American Family Association – they published an article by Marcia Segelstein in which she declared: Listen up, parents. The goal of sex education is not to prevent unwanted pregnancies and diseases. The goal is to promote sexual freedom. Segelstein’s assertion here is demonstrably false (a [...]
Kurashi - News From Japan (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
For a blog that is supposedly about all things 暮らし kurashi (life, living) there is precious little sex around here, as I think you can all find enough of that elsewhere on the Internet. But, ladies and gentlemen of the blog reading inclination, I thought my attempt at a Vintage Japan series of posts could benefit from a look at - Sex Education. On a side note, the first photo here...
Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Some conservative Christian denominations have issued a proclamation: we're sniveling busybodies and we're ready to prove it. Conservative Christian leaders unveiled a declaration Friday calling on Christians not to comply with rules and laws forcing them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideals that go against their religious doctrines. The declaration urges Christians to practice civil...
Chris Dickson (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
RECLAIMING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 November 2009 CONTACT: Katie Walker 540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org 31 CCHD-FUNDED GROUPS SUPPORTED, TRAINED BY PRO-ABORTION, HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS CCHD Still in Denial as Nov. 22 Collection Approaches Washington, DC (20 November 2009) – The following is a joint release of American Life League,...
Orthometer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The diocese mailed out a statement earlier in the week say that a local radio station had made false statements concerning CCHD and gave examples of some good programs (and some not so good but not morally objectionable) that CCHD has supported locally. So what? No one is saying that all CCHD funded programs are problematic, but rather that enough have been and are. (It seems that every week a new...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Teen library patrons in Ames will continue to have the opportunity to access accurate sex education materials thanks to a vote Thursday night by the local library's board of trustees. Members of the board voted 6-to-1 to continue to make copies of the [...]
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