Last week, students at Richardson High School in Texas took to social media to voice their annoyance with Justin Lookadoo, a super right wing whackadoo sex ed lecturer whose deliberate anti-sex lies were almost as offensive as his as-styled-by-Guy Fieri's afterbirth hair. But Texans aren't the only people being messed… Read… 11/18/13 12:30pm 11/18/13 12:30pm

Seriously, dum-dums, how many times do we have to go over this? Condoms do not cause sexy intercourse any more than seat belts cause car accidents. Adding yet another voice to this "conversation," which has seemingly been raging since the invention of penises, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on… Read… 10/28/13 8:30pm 10/28/13 8:30pm

Conservatives are very upset that a Wisconsin school district has reasonable guidelines for answering elementary schoolers' questions about masturbation without shaming them or sticking their fingers in their ears. Read… 8/26/13 6:20pm 8/26/13 6:20pm

An Indonesian education official proposed a brilliant idea that would eradicate teen sex-having forever: force female senior high school students to undergo "virginity tests" so that they're too embarrassed to have premarital sex or get into prostitution. Nobel prize for this guy! Read… 8/20/13 1:30pm 8/20/13 1:30pm

When I was a teenager, which I like to think was not that long ago, there were no one-on-one co-ed sleepovers, although I do remember a whole lot of drama over a handy given at a New Year's Eve slumber party while everyone else was sleeping. (Not by me.) Nobody even thought to ask. (Not that I was hanging out with,… Read… 8/10/13 1:04pm 8/10/13 1:04pm

It's certainly not The Joy of Sex, but Aristotle's Complete Master-Piece, published in 1766, has been credited as the first sex guide to be published in America. A read of some excerpts certainly fills one with the feeling that despite the sad state of affairs that is sexual education in the United States right now,… Read… 8/09/13 4:50pm 8/09/13 4:50pm

Whenever people talk about how their parents explained to them how babies were born, there's always a multitude of ridiculous stories. Some got updated lessons every year, which increased in detail as they aged, as it became "more appropriate" but also "more awkward" to do so (me). Others just came home from school and… Read… 6/12/13 6:00pm 6/12/13 6:00pm

While many of America's classrooms remain criminally regressive when it comes to their sexual education policies, today Illinois has helped put a kibosh on some of that bullshit by stepping slightly into the 21st Century. Read on Gawker 5/22/13 11:03pm 5/22/13 11:03pm

Germans are notoriously comfortable with sex and nudity. Go to any beach around the world and there's a 93.2% chance that the first grandpa to take his speedo off is German. So when a bunch of parents in Berlin got uppity about a sex-ed book, it definitely means something. Read… 4/26/13 2:10pm 4/26/13 2:10pm

Most Americans lack access to affordable health care and believe abortion should be legal, but that hasn't stopped some uber-chic fashionistas from daring to break the rules! We've hand-picked five key ways you can wear the most essential anti-choice trends from the runways — er, courtrooms and Senate floors. Let's… Read… 4/17/13 2:40pm 4/17/13 2:40pm

If the Catholic Church was your landlord, it almost definitely wouldn't let you masturbate in your apartment. You'd have to sneak away to a public park, like some sort of deviant. The Catholic Church, in other words, would make a pretty overbearing landlord, something that is being proved right now in New York, where… Read… 4/07/13 4:30pm 4/07/13 4:30pm

This week, the Village Voice's Crap Archivist Alan Scherstuhl digs up The Playbook for Kids About Sex , a 1980 sex ed book for kids in elementary school. Obviously the book was meant for hippie parents who weren't pleased that their children's sex ed classes at school didn't include sex or education. This book takes… Read… 1/23/13 11:45pm 1/23/13 11:45pm

There are a lot of immature behaviors and credulous misconceptions that people, over the peripatetic course of their childhood and adolescence are bound to outgrow. We hope. For instance, this made up person I know who definitely is not me used to walk around in a bathrobe with his forearms folded over each other under … Read… 12/12/12 11:15pm 12/12/12 11:15pm

Mississippi schools now have two options when it comes to sex-ed: abstinence education, AKA "pretending premarital sex doesn't exist," or a new program called "Abstinence Plus." Multiple choice time! "Abstinence Plus" is: Read… 10/15/12 12:40pm 10/15/12 12:40pm

Somewhere in America, grown adults are getting paid real legal currency to teach teenagers how to not have sex. And thanks to a deal the Obama administration was begrudgingly forced to cut with conservative legislators, these hoboes on the abstinence-only education gravy train will be able to continue riding the rails… Read… 10/11/12 5:25pm 10/11/12 5:25pm

Last year, actress and activist Jane Fonda, who has a (famously, oft-self-referenced) fantastic sex life at 74, penned a book about reaching her sexual peak as a post-hip replacement septuagenarian. Now, she is planning to write a sex ed book for teenagers as a way to help other parents avoid the mistake she made with… Read… 8/25/12 1:45pm 8/25/12 1:45pm

What's the one book you think Rep. Todd Akin, freelance improvisational biologist, would most benefit from reading, other than Go the F*ck to Sleep? If you said Our Bodies, Ourselves, plus a whole supplementary reading list of sex ed textbooks, you have exactly the same idea as the official Our Bodies, Ourselves… Read… 8/23/12 10:25pm 8/23/12 10:25pm

A bunch of rational people are suing the Clovis Unified School District in California for allegedly violating state law by telling kids they won't get pregnant if they're not sleep-deprived, whoreish loners. Read… 8/22/12 10:40am 8/22/12 10:40am

Despite an encouraging decline in teen pregnancy, the U.S. still lags woefully far behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to teenagers not really knowing how their reproductive organs work and consequently using contraception incorrectly (or not at all). Read… 8/19/12 8:10pm 8/19/12 8:10pm

"Can your eggs brake?" Middle schoolers' anonymous sex questions will make you want to hug them. Discuss… 8/11/12 12:45pm 8/11/12 12:45pm

A Louisiana public school reserves the right to force girls they "suspect" are with child to take pregnancy tests on command. Students who test positive — or refuse to take the pregnancy test in the first place — aren't allowed to go to school anymore. Because pregnancy (aka sluttiness) is contagious, and if we just … Read… 8/06/12 7:00pm 8/06/12 7:00pm

"If you didn't know better, you'd think there was a concerted effort going on in Texas to increase the number of children being born to teen parents," writes Gail Collins in an excerpt from her new book, As Texas Goes…, featured on The Daily Beast. Although conservative Texan politicians love to crow about the right to… Read… 6/04/12 6:10pm 6/04/12 6:10pm