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The
perils of 'designer vaginas'
We've become a society obsessed
with the quest for physical perfection. If you
don't like the nose (or ears or lips or breasts)
you were born with, there's a solution: find a
doctor and get it fixed. Clearly, the idea of
altering nature's plan for your appearance is
now widely accepted. But are there parts of your
body that should be off limits?
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Illinois
sex ed: Funding for lies, not information
The Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex
Education, a coalition of more than 90 groups advocating
for comprehensive sex education, is calling for an end
to federal funding for abstinence-only programs.
19-9-2007
The politics of sex
Former
surgeon general Richard Carmona revealed that federal
policies concerning abstinence-only programs, stem-cell
research, emergency contraception, and abortion are
founded on dogma, not science. According to the good
doctor's testimony before the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, politics, ideology, and
theology take priority over women's health in this
administration. 30-7-2007
Sex, or he's your ex
Excuse me
for being so bold, but I wanted to let readers know this
is not a column about and for women only. Sure, many
women feel that divorce is a particularly female rite of
passage. You don't see men writing books about their
personal journey following marital breakdown, do you?
1-7-2007
HIV-positive man gets life term for sex
A
Kansas City, Mo., man who spent five years in jail for
exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced recently
to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman
to the virus. Sean L. Sykes, 33, was found guilty of
having unprotected sex with a St. Joseph woman without
telling her he was HIV-positive.
1-7-2007
The meanest issue in American politics
You might have thought the first abortion
decision rendered by our new Supreme Court (Opus Dei
edition) would generate a firestorm of commentary,
especially if it might significantly limit late-term
abortion rights. 12-5-2007
In pursuit of perfect sex
Men
and women are under pressure from our culture as well as
their peers to appear to be knowledgeable and
comfortable with sex.
14-4-2007
Do women have a sexual orientation?
Presumably the masculinization of the
brain shapes some neural circuit that makes women
desirable. If so, this circuitry is wired differently in
gay men. In experiments in which subjects are shown
photographs of desirable men or women, straight men are
aroused by women, gay men by men.
14-4-2007
HPV vaccination will not increase sexual activity
Early in the 1950s,
polio was a real threat to the health of children. For
example, in 1952, more than 21,000 paralytic cases of
polio were reported. My brother was one of these cases.
6-4-2007
Illinois sex-ed or 'Porn 101?'
With
students rallying outside and parents debating within, a
Suburban Chicago school board decided to remove a
teacher whose sex-ed class was a little too spicy for
some members of the community to stomach.
17-3-2007
US women too tired for sex: poll
More than half of American women are not
getting enough sleep - with stay-at-home mothers
suffering the most - which stops them eating healthily,
spending time with friends, or having sex.
11-3-2007
Sex ed gets a lot sexier at Canadian university
An undergraduate program at Canada's
august University of Toronto offers discussions on
flogging, restraint, and role-play, as well as an arts
course called "Queerly Canadian." But teachers and
students insist it's a serious academic program that
isn't simply about sex.
Americans: Sex? No thanks
They
call themselves voluntary virgins, born-again virgins,
secondary virgins, celibate, abstinent and chaste. In
sex-obsessed America, adults who give up sex have as
many reasons for their decision as they have terms to
describe it. Their form of self-denial and discipline
dates back thousands of years, but they say it has even
more relevance today.
18-1-2007
Sex-ed program may get US adolescents to delay sex
After participating in a two-week sexual
education program designed and implemented by an
academic medical center, more middle-school students
said they would hold off on having sex for the first
time.
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