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Salon.com January 10, 2001 Amy Benfer |
A teen sex guru speaks Kids -- and their parents -- need to tackle taboos, says psychiatrist Lynn Ponton... |
Salon.com December 11, 2000 Michael Castleman |
Teach your children well Both liberal and conservative sex ed activists have it wrong: We should stop saying that sex is dangerous and help parents talk to their kids instead... |
Reason May 2006 Cathy Young |
The Great Fellatio Scare Is oral sex really the latest teen craze in America? |
American Family Physician April 1, 2003 |
Abstinence: Information for Teens What is sex?... "All my friends are having sex"... What are the risks of having sex?... What is abstinence?... "I had sex, but now I wish I hadn't"... How will I know I am ready to have sex?... etc. |
American Journal of Nursing July 2011 Dowdell et al. |
Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters. |
Nurse Practitioner September 2009 Meagan A. Holcomb et al. |
Adolescent Contraception: Sorting Out the Facts Adolescent contraception is a complex issue for healthcare providers. Clinicians are encouraged to provide anticipatory guidance to adolescent patients and their families concerning sexual behavior and appropriate contraception methods. |
ifeminists August 12, 2003 Marty Klein |
To Anti-Sexuals, We're ALL Gay Gay rights are not just for gays. They are essential for every sexual person in America, regardless of orientation. |
American Family Physician May 1, 2004 Daniel Knight |
Health Care Screening for Men Who Have Sex with Men Recommendations on health care screenings for men who have sex with men, who are at increased risk for STDs such as HIV infection, anal cancer, and psychologic and behavioral disorders. |
Reason August 2002 Thomas Szasz |
Sins of the Fathers Is child molestation a sickness or a crime? |
Salon.com June 11, 2001 Charles Taylor |
The morality police Our hysterical attempts to shield kids from images of sex and violence are stunting young lives -- and trapping us all in a Big Lie... |
ifeminists December 23, 2003 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Love and... Marriage and the meaning of sex The meaning of human sexuality is really at the heart of the conflict over the judicial attempt to recreate marriage in its own image. |
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 As-Sanie, Gantt & Rosenthal |
Pregnancy Prevention in Adolescents The family physician plays a key role by engaging adolescent patients in confidential, open, and nonthreatening discussions of reproductive health, responsible sexual behavior, and contraceptive use. |
Salon.com November 11, 2002 Lynn Ponton |
From Laramie to California The father of a cross-dressing teenage boy is terrified for the boy's safety. He's right to be worried, says the author, a psychiatrist. It's a scary world for these courageous teens. |
American Family Physician November 1, 2002 Nusbaum & Hamilton |
The Proactive Sexual Health History Physicians consistently underestimate the prevalence of sexual concerns in their patients. By allocating time to discuss sexual health during office visits, high-risk sexual behaviors that can cause STDs, unintended pregnancies, and unhealthy sexual decisions may be reduced. |
Salon.com May 21, 2002 Lara Riscol |
Go out and get a piece, son! Right-wing moralizers wink at boys' sexual foibles -- it's unfettered female sexuality that they think is leading us into perdition... |
Reason August 2003 Cathy Young |
Tammy Bruce's Journey There's something to be said for anyone who riles the feminist establishment as much as Tammy Bruce does. Unfortunately, her claim to be an independent thinker is compromised by her own unacknowledged contradictions -- and by her penchant for rhetoric straight from the right-wing TelePrompter. |
Salon.com October 22, 1999 Karen Houppert |
Freudian fear and cooked statistics The recent media alert about sex-crazed "tweens" is mostly a lot of hoo-ha with naught behind it... |
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Norma Jean Almodovar |
Who Will Rescue Us from Those Who Wish to Rescue Us Against Our Will? Radical feminists and religious conservatives insist that no distinction be made between consenting adult commercial sex and true sexual slavery. Does anyone believe that arresting a prostitute "for her own good" is of any value whatsoever? |
Reason February 2003 Sara Rimensnyder |
Birds Do It A new study on teen sex is likely to confound both proponents and critics of sex education programs. |
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez |
Doctor Sex, Ph.D. Kinsey's more complex picture of sexuality reveals that, in a sense, even the term gay rights is unfortunate. Perhaps a more Kinseyan conception would encourage us to recognize "gay rights," as rights we all enjoy, whether or not we care to exercise them. |
ifeminists January 4, 2009 Martin Green |
A defense of pornography Pornography is an anathema in polite society, while hundreds of millions use it in private. This is 'cognitive dissonance' on a huge scale -- saying one thing and doing another. |
ifeminists May 11, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
Sex offender hysteria kills children I simply do not believe society now produces 10x, 20x, 100x more sexual offenders than it did a few decades ago when children walked home from school alone and safely. |
Salon.com July 21, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Does "safe sex" really exist? Condoms don't protect against all STDs. Social conservatives, goaded by George W. Bush, are taking advantage of that little-known fact. First of two parts. |
ifeminists May 11, 2008 Wendy McElroy |
A Feminist Defense of Men's Rights Women are individuals and anything that weakens individual rights based on a shared humanity harms women as much as men. |
ifeminists September 30, 2003 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Aborting Child Protection Health-care personnel are ordinarily mandatory reporters of child abuse. But a recent survey has prompted the question of whether abortion clinics take this responsibility seriously. |
Salon.com January 8, 2001 Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
The virginity hoax A federal study reveals the terrible failures inherent in teen vows to chastity... |
Psychology Today Jul/Aug 2008 Kathleen McGowan |
Typically Twisted Taboo impulses can be titillating... but more often they're a source of concern for those who harbor secret wishes or unusual desires. |
ifeminists July 18, 2007 Wendy McElroy |
Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly Ayn Rand is arguably one of America's most important women novelists, and her heroines are among the strongest and most independent female characters in American literature. Yet modern feminism tends to dismiss Rand's work contemptuously. |
American Family Physician July 15, 2006 Sally A. Mravcak |
Primary Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women Physicians can improve care for lesbians and bisexual women by acknowledging the potential barriers to care (e.g., hesitancy of physicians to inquire about sexual orientation and of patients to disclose their sexual behavior) and working to create a therapeutic physician-patient relationship. |
Reason May 2003 Cathy Young |
Skin Flicks 101 What porn studies profs don't get about sex |
Reason April 2003 Nick Gillespie |
Lust-See TV: Small-screen sex and its discontents The Kaiser Family Foundation's studies of sex on TV merely suggest that Hollywood plays no great role in kids' most important life choices. |
ifeminists July 2, 2008 WolfmanMac |
Lynch Mobs, Stones and Glass Houses The case of Mr. Gilbert Chan, described as a "veteran reporter," was off duty attending a cheerleading competition. There he "was caught by University of California, Davis, police on Feb. 3 while surreptitiously videotaping [the] ...competition on campus." |
Reason September 2005 Julian Sanchez |
All Happy Families From a civil libertarian perspective, it's clear enough why the unequal treatment of gay parents is objectionable: The human desire for family isn't exclusive to heterosexuals, and attempts to prevent gays from raising families both stigmatize them and threaten to deprive them of an important component of a full life. |
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Home Alone America Why can the policy wonks and public intellectuals not see the point of Mary Eberstadt's new book, Home Alone America? Many reviewers seem determined to miss the deep truth of this book: It would be better for both children and adults if more American parents were with their kids more of the time. |
Salon.com June 28, 2002 Amy Benfer |
In search of her father's girlhood Noelle Howey, author of "Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods -- My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine," discusses sexuality, angora and life with a transgender parent. |
Reason February 2002 Cathy Young |
Excluded Evidence The dark side of rape shield laws... |
Salon.com October 28, 2002 Lara Riscol |
Miss America's stealth virginity campaign With the coveted tiara firmly in her grasp, beauty queen Erika Harold quickly unveiled plans to promote her pet cause: Abstinence-only sex education. |
Reason July 2007 Kerry Howley |
Invasion of the Prostitots Another moral panic about American girls. |
ifeminists April 13, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Marriage and the Limits of Contract A culture full of people who violate their contracts at every possible opportunity cannot be held together by legal institutions. |
Reason July 2005 Cathy Young |
Bizarre Bedfellows The passing of Andrea Dworkin--feminist polemicist, anti-porn crusader, and loony extraordinaire--drew strangely admiring obituaries from several feminists who vehemently disagreed with her in life. |
Health March 2006 Joan Raymond |
Rx for Passion Want a better sex life? Just follow the advice from psychotherapist and sex educator Laura Berman as contained in her book The Passion Prescription: Ten Weeks to Your Best Sex Ever! Here's an interview with the author. |
ifeminists April 13, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
Understanding Sexual Harassment With all the "guidance" offered by lawsuits, feminist theorists, government agencies, and privately drafted policies, a question about sexual harassment still remains: what is it? |
American Family Physician July 15, 2004 Joel E. Gallant |
HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral By the year 2005, the CDC seeks to achieve the following: reduce annual new HIV infections from the current estimated 40,000 cases to 20,000 cases through the use of interventions such as counseling, HIV testing, and referral |
ifeminists December 1, 2004 Carey Roberts |
The Unfolding AIDS Scandal at the UN Every day, 8,500 men and women die from the modern Black Death that we call AIDS. Most of those deaths could be avoided if the UN took a practical approach that is based on science, not ideology. And pitting women against men is hardly the answer. |
Psychology Today Jan/Feb 2006 Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn |
Lust For The Long Haul The road to long-term passion starts with a surprise: intimacy requires soul-searching, not romancing. Love is an existential challenge, and the reward is a sex life that grows richer (and raunchier) with time. |
Salon.com June 11, 2001 Amy Benfer |
Banning censorship First Amendment attorney and author Marjorie Heins argues that obscenity laws do children more harm than good... |
Reason June 2003 Cathy Young |
Gay Rights Go to Court Sodomy laws, same-sex marriage, and the future of homosexual rights |
Reason January 2002 Jacob Sullum |
Sex, Drugs, and Techno Music Why the rap against Ecstasy has a familiar ring to it |
Reason July 2001 Cathy Young |
What Do Women Want? Feminism seeks new adherents -- and old goals... |
ifeminists June 22, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Parents Must Assert Rights Over School Authorities Children nationwide are given a survey in high school, and sometimes in middle school, concerning sexual and illicit behavior. While the information is supposed to be confidential, it may not always be. |