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There's been a ton of hysteria about all the blowjobs teenagers are allegedly giving and getting these days, but relatively little talk about how teen girls actually feel about giving head. Now a group of researchers has decided to ask them, and the results are kind of disturbing — turns out that for some girls, oral sex is "like homework." More »
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Everybody, don't have sex with any teenage hamsters. It totally messes up their brains. More »
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The long dominance of abstinence-only sex ed in this country has made any program that even mentions condoms look pretty damn good. But what if your teachers could have taught you what you really needed to know about sex? What would you have wanted them to say? More »
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Despite the fact that TV shows like Glee are corrupting children by teaching them that it's cool to have protected sex with your long-term partner, according to a new study from the CDC, the number of teens losing their virginity has dropped drastically in the last decade. Unfortunately, the CDC still has no idea why kids' passion for illicit fornication has waned, so the study's usefulness is limited. However, it's still a great opportunity for adults to theorize about what could possibly be going through teens' heads, much like when someone over 30 tries to figure out what the kiddies see in Justin Beiber. More »
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Probably bad news for Rick Perry and his state's abstinence-only approach to sex-ed: according to a study by the University of Texas' Health Sciences Center at Houston, about one in ten Texas sixth graders have had sex. If that seems like a lot of precocious preteens to you, imagine how frighteningly large the proportion seems to the stalwart sex-educators of Texas, some of whom, according to HuffPo, employ such cutting-edge teaching tools as biblical short answer questions. Forget for a moment how much you hate short answer tests because they make your hands cramp, and consider instead that using the Bible to teach kids about sex is sort of the same as using a textbook that's a couple thousand years out of date, except that isn't so much a textbook as a collection of occasionally apocryphal parables. Oh, and it's loaded with all kinds of inconsistently taboo sex like incest. More »
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A new poll shows parents may be talking to their kids about sex in general — but when it comes to the details, they're falling short. More »
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A new poll finds that teens in a number of countries are having unsafe sex in increasing numbers — and their reasons for forgoing protection are pretty depressing. More »
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A new study shows that having sex may actually reduce teenage misbehavior — but only if teens are in relationships. More »
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Teens are apparently getting it on less often than they used to — and while abstinence-only education may be a factor, it's not the whole story. More »
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A new study purports to show that Japanese people are increasingly uninterested in sex. And people seem especially concerned about undersexed young men. More »
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A new study shows that teens who have sex with both male and female partners are more likely to experience dating violence, and less likely to use condoms. More »
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Good news: Teens who have sex might just fare alright in their lives! The bad news is that they're probably still going to hell. More »
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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. More »
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• Obama spoke today with Shirley Sherrod, the former Argiculture Department employee who was forced to resign over a heavily-edited and misleading report about a speech she gave to in march. A statement released about the call explained:

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Boys at the prestigious Landon school apparently organized a fantasy sex league with points for hooking up with different girls. When boys are acting this way, why are we so focused on girls' attitudes? More »
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•  The Department of Education has spoken out against a tradition at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School of posting "Crush Lists" in the school hallway. The list of lust-worthy students appears under the heading "I'd Tap That." More »
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According to a national survey, more teens are using the rhythm method for birth control in recent years. Dear sexually active teens: Get thee to a Planned Parenthood. [AP] More »
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Caitlin Flanagan claims adult indifference to hookup culture has driven sad, boyfriendless teens into the arms of sparkly vampires. Amid the weirdness, however, is one good point: teen girls do need a different kind of sex ed. More »
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An Omaha high school newspaper was pulled — and a journalism teacher disciplined — because of it published articles that discussed teen sex. Another possibly anti-sex newspaper? The Harvard Crimson. More »
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In a survey conducted partly by nonprofit organization Girls Inc., researchers took a look at the sexual behavior and attitudes of teenage girls — and maybe we can quit fretting over the "Pregnancy Pact" and Gossip Girl's latest hookups. More »
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Last week Switzerland unveiled (unwrapped?) special smaller condoms for 12-year-olds, and now a British boy band is in talks to create their own line of rubbers. Which raises the question: Who wants to have sex with a boy-band condom? More »
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According to a CBS poll that's both sweet and disturbing, American parents think their kids are model citizens, and that they avoid sex and drugs. More »
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We've become accustomed to hearing about how "hook up culture" is ruining kids today. But a new study shows that casual sex - wait for it - is totally OK. And not necessarily bad for your mental health. More »
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Yesterday's Oprah was wonderfully progressive, teaching parents how to talk to their daughters about sex, which included encouraging them to discuss the importance of pleasure, masturbation, and (gasp!) the purchase of vibrators. More »
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A new study suggests that 14 and 15 year olds who listen to music with sexual lyrics are more likely to be sexually active. But is music to blame for kids having sex too young? More »
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• Less than a month until the election, folks, and it's getting really ugly.
• John McCain sounding like a total loon during the debates, calling Obama "That One": ugly.
• Illogical republican strategists yelling at Newsweek for putting a (gasp!) un-retouched photo of Sarah Palin on the cover: ugly!
• Nikki Blonsky kicking Bianca Golden's mom in the vagina at an airport: ugly!
• At least we have the unarguably awesome Sarah Vowell and Donna Brazile to guide us through the ugliness.
• Though they can't really fix the ugly in this mess of the economy... or this Free People catalog.

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Sure, we all love Gossip Girl but most of us are (semi-)reasonable adults who can separate the show's risque antics from reality. But what about the children? Carol Platt Liebau, author of Prude, says that the show "glamorizes and normalizes" a sexy lifestyle which can result in emotional and psychological distress in young girls. She also thinks that "depicting high school girls as little more than gossipy sex objects is simply a tired cliche that does all females a disservice." But Carol, they aren't just gossipy sex objects! They are ASB presidents who out their ex-BFF as a recovering drug addict, they steal Valentino couture, they kill people. OMG, the drama! No wonder 14-year-olds love this show. [Reuters] More »
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Researchers at the University of Utah have found that gastroschisis, a serious birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and organs outside of their abdomen, is linked to STDs and UTIs contracted just before or during pregnancy. Although the causes for gastroschisis are not known, women in the study who had contracted STDs and UTIs were four times more likely to give birth to infants with the defect. Gastroschisis is also linked to age, with women under 20 more likely to give birth to children with the defect than women over 25. STDs and UTIs are said to be contracted by 1 in 4 teens and 6 out of 6 Jezebels (kidding). [UPI] More »
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Today on Tyra, teenagers as young as 13 discussed how they have sex on school grounds, sometimes even giving BJs in the classroom while the substitute teacher is sleeping. As one can imagine, Tyra was appalled and gave some of the kids a stern talking-to, but perhaps more disturbingly, she also went into unnecessary detail with some of the parents on hand, pointing out repeatedly that their kids are sexual beings. It was definitely a big cringe-fest for everyone. Then Tyra asked a teenage lesbian to discuss the specifics of her trysts in the back of the classroom during movie days. The kid did such a good job, it sounded like she was reading a Penthouse Forum letter out loud. Clip above. More »
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A new study claims that there's a "recipe" that raises the odds of a teen becoming sexually active early — and the more ingredients (low self-esteem, not feeling close to parents, lots of TV), the more likely a teen is to have sexual relations by the age of 15. Janet Shibley Hyde, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author Myeshia Price conducted a two-year study of 273 children and used anonymous surveys."By 15," they write, "one out of five boys had participated in oral sex and about one in 10 said they'd had intercourse; the numbers were somewhat lower for girls. (Because the teens were mostly middle class and white, they had lower rates of sexual experience than the U.S. average.)" More »
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