On AlterNet: sex education
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "sex education"
AlterNetOctober 17, 2008.
A guide to how Obama and McCain compare on gay marriage, LGBT adoption and sex education.
AlterNetOctober 14, 2008.
Find out how the candidates compare on the 10 most important reproductive justice and gender issues, from abortion to equal pay.
Cecile Richards, Huffington Post. October 2, 2008.
Women voting for McCain-Palin is like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
Kelli Conlin, AlterNet. September 19, 2008.
Kids that don't get sex ed in school don't run to the Bible for information -- they get their ideas about sex from sordid teen dramas.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. September 8, 2008.
It's time to shift the discussion about Palin to what really matters: her far-right views on the issues.
Vanessa Valenti, AlterNet. August 28, 2008.
Conservatives finally learned that sheer moralizing doesn't keep teens from having sex. Now they have a creepy new tactic.
Tala Dowlatshahi, American News Project AlterNet: Video. July 4, 2008.
Teen pregnancy is on the rise in America for the first time since 1991.
Sue Katz, Consenting Adult. June 4, 2008.
Bush's abstinence-based sex education programs are failing. No kidding.
Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check. April 10, 2008.
HIV prevention programs must be based on more expansive views of sexuality -- particularly when it comes to sex work.
Lara Riscol, RH Reality Check. March 27, 2008.
A fourth of American teen girls have an STD. Playing sex police only makes the problem worse.
Peter Rothberg, The Nation. February 14, 2008.
"Safe Sex or No Sex" shirts are deemed inappropriate enough to merit suspension, but lying to teens in sex ed class is a billion-dollar industry.
Jessica Valenti, The Nation. January 9, 2008.
Right-wing women benefit from promoting anti-feminist values -- at the rest of our expense.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 20, 2007.
Why teenagers are so screwed up about sex and their bodies.
Alison Bowen, Women's eNews. November 27, 2007.
The U.S. has spent about $1 billion on abstinence-only education in the last decade. Here's how presidential candidates line up on the issue.
Rachel Kramer Bussel, WireTap. July 13, 2007.
A founder of an innovative sex-ed program explains her holistic, inclusive approach to teaching teens about the birds and the bees.
Jennifer Liss, WireTap. June 29, 2007.
What's working -- less sex or better contraception?
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. April 23, 2007.
A congressionally mandated study that tracked 2,057 kids for several years found that most (51 percent) started having sex regardless of whether they'd been taught "abstinence only."
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. April 13, 2007.
An "ideological boondoggle of historic proportions"
RH Reality Check, AlterNet: PEEK. April 9, 2007.
Scott Swenson: Here they are, the corrupt morality police...
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. April 4, 2007.
Scott Swenson: And your tax dollars support them...
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. January 17, 2007.
Just look at the statistics... if you dare.
