The Huffington Post has a nice little poll up about green birth control.  Actually, birth control is just not all that green. As the poll points out, no one is recycling condoms (obviously – and PS don’t try), the birth control pill may release excess estrogen into the water supply, and while copper IUDs may be the eco-friendliest of all, few women use them.

I’ve thought about this before because pill packets especially the heavier plastic ones have always bugged me. They seem like they’d make the pill the least eco-friendly birth control option, but the Huffington Post piece points out …read more

Elton John sat down with CNN recently to talk about the process we’ve made in AIDS education. He said some very interesting things. One was that he found AIDS to be cyclical. That every ten years or so, we have to re-educate people about safe sex because there is a whole new group of folks that don’t seem to get it. I find that interesting, because as long as I can remember there has been talk of this. I’m wondering who is not listening!

He also said that his lifestyle for a while consisted of throwing …read more

Teenagers who pledged to avoid sex until marriage were as likely to have intercourse as other U.S. adolescents, according to a survey of conduct mostly in 1990s.
Teens who took the pledge were less likely to use birth control pills or condoms than those making no promise. Essentially, the results show that teens need information on safe sex and pregnancy prevention even if they vow to refrain.
Imagine, teens making a promise and within a year or two – they up and change their mind. Gasp
I think it’s great that teens make such promises – but being a realist I know …read more