When I think back on my most formative moments there is the shower threesome on The Real World: Miami; the wet t-shirt contests of MTV spring break programming; and there’s typing “a/s/l” into mid- to late-’90s AOL chatrooms and making bumbling attempts at cybersex. But none of these moments even begin to approach the…

Across the country, as part of The Sex Ed Sit Out, parents pulled their kids out of school yesterday to protest “graphic, gender-bending sex education.” (As usual, the self-parody absolutely performs itself.) As the protest’s chief organizer, Elizabeth Johnston, told Breitbart, “A few of us moms were disgusted by the…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a list of 16 topics it says should be taught in high school sex education courses. The health bureau also recently found that less than half of U.S. high schools are properly teaching the topics.

Forced cultural assimilation is looked down upon for good reason—it privileges the value system and traditions of whatever the home country is, reinforcing the marginalization of the immigrant. What happens, however, when the immigrant’s culture generally tolerates violence against women?

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control shows that middle and high schools in the United States are doing an almost universally terrible job teaching sex ed. Schools are especially struggling with teaching students how to get and use condoms; teenagers are less likely to use one today than they were a decade…

A Chinese college is facing backlash after requesting that female students sign a chastity pledge as part of a course called No Regrets Youth.

The Gilbert School District in Arizona allegedly has a very novel way of expressing its beliefs about abstinence and abortion. According to a parent whose son is a high-schooler in the district, school officials announced its “strong interest in promoting childbirth” by having the students put stickers saying so in…

A new report from the Associated Press found that abortion rates have dropped by 21 percent since 2010, and anti-abortion groups are once again taking the credit. And, as ever, they had nothing to do with it. The opposite, actually.

A private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota took their students on a field trip to an adult novelty store and parents were pissed. The class, which was made up of about a dozen middle and high school-aged students, participated in a workshop allowing them to ask educators questions and learn about safer sex products.…

No one was surprised last week when news broke that a small-town school without a sex education program was teeming with chlamydia. Unfortunately, that story has proven to be false, leaving a tiny Texas town traumatized with embarrassment over an error reported as fact by the school’s superintendent.

We may never crack this case: a small school district in West Texas that offers no sex education whatsoever is experiencing a large outbreak of chlamydia. How could this possibly have happened?