Medical experts in Scotland have issued new guidelines that suggest girls as young as 13 should consider long-lasting contraceptive options like injections, coils and implants. They claim it will help prevent teen pregnancy. Others fear 13 is too young.
Several female rock groups have taken up the sex-positive mantel, distributing zines on female sexuality (including ejaculation) at their shows. Does this mark a brave new way of approaching sex education? Or is it just another watered-down stunt?
It's an average Thursday night at American University. I'm the only fully straight (and fully sober) person in this room, I hear Lady Gaga blasting from a few rooms down, and I'm blogging about sex.
Certain critiques have been leveled at Western culture so often that they've almost become truisms: plastic surgery has gone too far, children have been overly sexualized, women just don't know what they want. But these (valid) criticisms raise certain questions.
A 2007 study reports roughly 20% of college students classify as oral-genital contact as sex, whereas about 40% considered it "sex" in 1991. One possible reason for increasingly relaxed attitudes? Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky's special relationship! [Guttmacher Institute]
Things women supposedly feel/think about while giving a blow job, according to a proposed ad for Durex condoms: satisfied, contented, blush, luscious, fruits, fruits, fruits, and dainty. And just wait till you see what happens when we fuck.
On last night's episode, a hostile Kari Ann Peniche—of McSteamy sex-tape infamy
On last night's premiere of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, eight (minor celebrity) patients who love sex, masturbation, and porn checked into treatment for their sexual compulsions. Their stories lead the viewer to ask, "Am I a sex addict?"
The idea of sex is everywhere: society's obsession with sex has led to a culture of overshare that leads many women to wonder if they can ever measure up to so-called normal they're faced with.
Sandra McElwaine insists House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone under the knife, since her eyes look "dewy" at 69. Her "evidence" comes from a Republican plastic surgeon and some rumors. Nice. [Daily Beast]
Part 2 of VH1's documentary mini-series Sex: The Revolution aired last night, and a portion of it focused on the sexual revolution's influence on feminism in the 1970s and vice versa. The doc combines archival footage of interviews, TV shows, and protest rallies and new interviews with heavyweights like Gloria Steinem, …
Down Under, two of the major teen magazines, rivals Dolly and Girlfriend, are banding together to fight government suggestions that the magazines come with "audience age recommendations," because of the sexually-explicit nature of their question-and answer-sections. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Tasmanian Senator…
