Thursday, May 17, 2012
Rihanna Does Whatever She Wants With Her Vagina and for Some Reason That’s a Problem
Sluts. They're the worst, right? Always having sex for pleasure and walking around with visible ankles. Thank god we came up with this foolproof slut eradication technique, where we treat women like garbage for doing totally normal (but gross!) stuff that everyone on earth does all the time! Remember how we used to slut-shame Madonna? That totally worked out. Nobody ever had sex ever again. UNTIL RIHANNA.
jezebel.com
http://jezebel.com/5911023/rihanna-does-whatever-she-wants-with-her-vagina-and-for-some-reason-thats-a-problem?utm_source=Jezebel+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b778e7c0d9-UA-142218-20&utm_medium=email
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A Precursor to Playboy: Graphic Images in Rock
Researchers have discovered illustrations of female anatomy in a rock shelter in France that date back 37,000 years.
It is “the oldest evidence of any kind of graphic imagery,” said Randall White, an anthropologist at New York University and one of the researchers working on the project.
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/oldest-cave-art-includes-drawings-of-female-anatomy.html
Regimens: IUD May Be Best Emergency Contraception
In a review of previous studies, researchers have concluded that the insertion of an intrauterine device after unprotected sex is the most effective and safest method of emergency contraception.
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/health/iud-may-be-best-emergency-contraception-analysis-shows.html?_r=1
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/health/iud-may-be-best-emergency-contraception-analysis-shows.html?_r=1
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Right-wing sexual pathos
Attempts to ban talk of birth control and homosexuality from classrooms reveal conservatives' deepest sexual fears
Imagine a high school teacher having to separate a smooching pair outside the classroom door to protect herself from being sued for condoning “gateway sexual activity.” Envision a sex education class where the mention of homosexuality is forbidden by law and discussion of contraception, or even puberty, is deemed unnecessary.
That’s the world that would be created by a recent raft of abstinence education bills in Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. These initiatives are frightening — but, viewed the right way, they shine light on extreme conservatives’ deepest, darkest fears about sex. They’re veritable inkblot tests for right-wing sexual pathos.
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abstinence,
birth control,
sex education,
social norms,
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WI
Friday, May 4, 2012
Georgia: Study Finds Teenage Girls Are Using Better Birth Control
More teenage girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says. About 60 percent of teenage girls who have sex use the most effective kinds of contraception, including the pill and the patch. That is an increase from the mid-90s, when less than half were using such kinds of contraception, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a study released Thursday. The study is based on a national survey of 2,300 girls ages 15 to 19, conducted between 2006 and 2010. The trend toward better contraception is helping to drive down the teenage birthrate, health officials said. Crystal Tyler, a C.D.C. epidemiologist who was a writer of the new report, said that doctors seemed to be increasingly comfortable prescribing hormonal birth control methods to teenagers.
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/georgia-study-finds-teenage-girls-are-using-better-birth-control.html?smid=fb-share
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/georgia-study-finds-teenage-girls-are-using-better-birth-control.html?smid=fb-share
Teen Girls Just Aren’t Slutting It Up Like They Used To
This is going to come as very upsetting news to Republicans fighting tooth and nail to take sex education back into the stone ages, but a new survey has found that teenage girls these days are waiting longer to have sex, and when they do finally go for it, more of them are using the most effective kinds of contraception.
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