I teach sex ed courses for 12-18's that are self-esteem and common sense-based (in the UK, mind you), and I find overwhelming evidence (blind surveys after all our programs - that's about 2500 different kids from different classes and races and areas over the last year) that:
1) only about 25% of 13-16 year olds have…

I'm 29 and married now, but when I was 16 I had to use Plan B. My then-boyfriend and I were very responsible and always "wrapped it up," but it broke. It always amuses me that people seem to think ladies use Plan B because they just didn't want to be bothered with a condom or a pill. The vast majority of the time,…

"I see girls mad young walking around school who are pregnant," one 13-year-old said. "I think everyone should be able to get it because that's better than babies having more babies." It's nice to see that this thirteen-year-old gets it better than any of the social conservatives in this country. Do we *want* to see…

Guttmacher research shows that very few young adolescent girls have sex, and that teenagers don't engage in sexual activity at a higher rate if contraceptives are easily available.

"All the girls at school talk about sex," a 14-year-old girl said. "They talk about what happens after sex. But they don't talk about what happens before sex."

Does anyone know what kind of studies you need to complete and teaching degree required if you just want to teach Health or Sex Ed? I'm 25 and work in marketing but would take night classes if necessary to qualify to become a Sex Ed teacher for middle schoolers. When I was a senior in high school I was the TA in our…

I agree with this... there are certainly millenial guys who grumble a little at the recent emphasis on women in the workplace, but they tend to be guys who have a lot to grumble about in general. I work in a very male-dominated workplace and I have never encountered sexism from guys in my age range... quite the…

All I'm hearing is that it's only called "extra support" when you're a woman. Being a man and belonging to golf clubs, intraoffice groups and committees, having older male mentors - that's just all part of the job. If a woman does these things, it's a secret cabal of vaginas. If a man is on a leadership committee…

Gender equality is not a zero sum game. Women can progress without men losing anything (other than unwarranted privilege and misogyny).

I am a cat lover. I completely support requiring cats to be spayed/neutered and kept indoors. I honestly don't give much thought to birds or whatnot. But it is definitely safer for the kitty to live indoors. The average lifespan of an indoor cat is several times lengthier than that of a cat who goes outside.

I have 3 indoor cats in the US, and a huge factor in my initial decision to keep them inside is the environmental impact they have. I live in a fragile ecosystem and cats seriously wreak havoc on it. Plus it is far safer for the cat—the average life span of an indoor/outdoor cat in the US is 3 years, while the average…

Like I just wrote in a different post, I'm firmly behind this. Cats can be perfectly happy inside as long as they are given toys to play with. It's safer for them, and they do wreck absolute havoc on the environment. I used to live on the 11th floor of an apartment building, and my cat (which was an total inside…

I like cats but i'm cool with pushing to keep them off small(ish) island ecosystems.
We have billions of cats and like 80 of these.

It's better for all involved, including the cat, for cats to be indoors-only pets. This "war on cats" is ridiculous.

Is it weird that I first misread that as "War on Cats Continues In Space"?

Just because cats don't usually maul humans, doesn't mean we should be dismissive about their impact on wild bird populations.

Thank you for this. As a former service academy cadet, I was date raped and then treated like a criminal afterwards, while the man walked away just fine and is living his super successful life. I also had a roofie slipped into my drink by an upperclassmen while drinking with him and my girlfriend. I knew something…

Bathing in milk, kitten's just trying to hold onto his youthful looks!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Sloths have nothing on cats/kittens.

I'm going to admit for a moment I considered creating a burner account, so I could admit that this type of acknowledgement from someone as powerful as Christine Quinn makes me feel better about my own past with bulimia. But I realized as i was clicking that button...that this is the point that Christine was making. We…