Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 2, 2009. Teens are having more condomless sex than they did in the 1990s. It's time for science-based sex ed, not moralizing.
Andy Wright, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. Withdrawal is one of the oldest forms of birth control. Yet, our gender biases -- along with some very bad science -- have made it taboo.
Carmen D. Siering, Ms. Magazine. May 19, 2009. Adults have an obligation to start a conversation concerning the darker themes and anti-feminist rhetoric in the extremely popular Twilight series.
Christopher White, National Sexuality Resource Center. May 18, 2009. Rather than focusing on how harmful and dangerous sexting is, we should be talking to young people about healthy sexual behaviors.
Jessica Valenti, Seal Press. May 4, 2009. Boys are taught that the things that make them good are universally accepted ethical ideals; women are told our worth lies between our legs.
Wendy Atterberry, The Frisky. April 14, 2009. Average penis size? The rate of erectile dysfunction? Friends with benefits? Here is a list of facts and stats you may or may not know about sex.
Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. April 10, 2009. Rejecting abstinence-only funding is only one part of the movement to empower young people. There's much more to do.
Judith Levine, The American Prospect. February 7, 2009. Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness.
Chelsea Ricker, RH Reality Check. January 17, 2009. Yet more evidence that abstinence-only programs, many of which include virginity pledges, do not work.
Karen Sternheimer, AlterNet. December 27, 2008. Poverty and family abuse -- not TV or the Internet -- are the causes of teen violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and unplanned pregnancy.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. December 15, 2008. Charles Blow has discovered 'the demise of dating' -- and he is not happy about it.
Lorraine Kenny, RH Reality Check. December 4, 2008. Sex ed advocates have unwittingly undermined their message by adopting the language of abstinence-only groups.
Amie Newman, RH Reality Check. October 31, 2008. Proposition 4 does not encourage communication between parents and their kids -- it puts teens in danger and violates their rights.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. October 5, 2008. Political leaders are nervous about supporting comprehensive sex education in schools. But it may be a bigger political liability not to.
Christopher White, American Sexuality Magazine. September 27, 2008. There are many ways of helping young people navigate these years of sexual exploration. Just don't forget you were once a teen yourself.
John Santelli, Leslie Kantor, RH Reality Check. September 26, 2008. Abstinence-only programs contain medical inaccuracies and fail to help young people to change behavior.
