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Katelyn Campbell, a high school senior in Charleston, W.V, has asked for an injunction against her school principal after he threatened to call the college where she’s been accepted (Wellesley, by the way), and tell them she has “bad character.” Why does she have bad character? Because she spoke out against a religious, abstinence-only sex education assembly at her public high school. More
A new report from the CDC sheds light on an oft-overlooked facet of teen pregnancy in America: It tends to happen in multiples.
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Proper sexual education: the final frontier. More
Look, I know. I know that no one wants to use dental dams; no one even wants to talk about using dental dams. And it’s understandable—to the uninitiated, they can seem cumbersome, awkward, hard to use or just plain silly. However …. More
Maybe it’s because there’s still a huge amount of stigma and shame surrounding it, or maybe it’s because birth control has become more of a controversy than a matter of basic health, but according to a new (albeit small) poll, women are just not getting the information they need about contraception. How much do you really know about your birth control? Because, apparently, if you’re like many women, the answer is “not much.” More
In today’s somewhat amusing news, the anti-abortion group, American Life League, has come out with a video that depicts all of their gripes against Planned Parenthood, including the idea that they somehow turn kids into ‘sex addicts’.
Among numerous ridiculous accusations voiced in their new video (which kind of comes across like a Saturday Night Live skit), the conservative groups says that Planned Parenthood is obsessed with sex as demonstrated through their use of sex toys, sex contests, penis-shaped balloons, giant vagina costumes, vagina cakes, vagina fruit roll-ups and yes, even those highly-evil penis cupcakes. More
My high school had a proud history of offering an in-house, comprehensive, peer-led sexual education. In the program, juniors and seniors would be trained for about a month before leading a series of classes that taught underclassmen how STIs are transmitted, how to properly put on a condom, how to decide when is the right time for sex, and how to talk to their parents about their sexual health. Which was the program I thought I was getting involved in at age 15 when I attended a day-long informational session on a Saturday, which had been billed as “peer-led sex ed.” What I was actually there for, it turned out, was to learn how to teach 6th graders about abstinence, and nothing else. More
It’s Sex Re-Education week at Blisstree, but if you need a break from the gravity of STIs, IUDs and other pregnancy-reducing, libido-inducing posts, here’s a little humor to make the week go by. Alone, abstinence isn’t all that fun, but with some advertising creativity, it can be hilarious. More
Plenty of people rely on shows like NBC’s Parenthood for examples of modern family conflict resolution, but while they make light of kids with Asperger’s syndrome and runaway daughters, they often fail to deal with one of the most controversial … More
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An interactive, life-sized video game has been developed by the Univerisity of Florida to help pre-teen girls practice warding off sexual advances made by peers. The game had a budget of $434,000, which could have funded several sex-ed (or abstinence) … More
We’ve been talking an awful lot about sex this week on Blisstree, so we thought we’d use Flashback Friday to watch a retro sex-ed film. If you’re like us, you’ll be taken on a roller coaster ride of emotions during … More
