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The Pope Says the Condoms are OK as a “Last Resort,” I Roll My Eyes
I’m all for religion. Really. I feel that everyone should be allowed to hold whatever beliefs that they want to without the threat of persecution. However, when religious figures get in the way of the...
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Let’s Talk About Sex Baby, or Why Open Dialogue About Sex Is Effective
Since the beginning of the semester, I have worked for a student organization at Oberlin called the Sexual Information Center (or SIC for short). As an organization, we provide confidential peer...
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HIV-Positive Porn Star Speaking Out Against the Industry
When AIDS became the new epidemic of death that most of us would die from (at least according to my sex ed class), the porn industry took quite a bit of heat. And then AIDS was no big deal. And then...
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The Pope Backtracks on His Condom Comments
Remember that time the Pope appeared to be deeming the use of condoms appropriate? And everyone was all “this is a step in the right direction!” but were mostly suspicious? Well everyone, we were...
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Planned Parenthood Gift Cards?
Okay, I have to start off by saying that I think Planned Parenthood has done a great deal of good. Whether parents like it or not, kids are having sex at ever-younger ages, and having the means and...
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MTV’s 16 and Pregnant: No Easy Decision Airs
I watched MTV’s 16 and Pregnant: No Easy Decision on Tuesday night, which, if you can’t tell from the title, is the first of the series to explore abortion, though past episodes of the series have...
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Saddest Story of the Week Tells of an Elementary School “Surrounded by...
I wouldn’t describe myself as pro-prostitution, but I’m definitely not against prostitution, either (especially considering how the industry is treated in our country), just that I acknowledge that it...
View ArticleIneffectual Advertising: The New York Board of Health Uses Scare Tactics to...
I don’t have all that much to say about the NYC Board of Health’s HIV-prevention advertisement, because I’ve said it all before. It’s pretty disheartening to see powerful organizations using fear to...
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New Hampshire School Bans Safer-Sex Kits Distributed by AIDS Services Group
This is a bit of a tricky one, for reasons that I will explain in a bit. The administration of a New Hampshire high school has stopped the sexual health group ‘AIDS Services’ from distributing...
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Should A Guy Go to Jail for Giving His Girlfriend Herpes?
When two people engage in sexual behaviors, there is a risk. No matter how well you think you know somebody, however honest you believe someone to be in terms of their sexual history, there is a leap...
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