The Sexist’s Amanda Hess went around and asked (what looks like) twentysomething DC dudes about birth control, and the results are hilarious/terrifying: they often don’t know shit.
My favorite is when a guy gets asked about the birth control pill and he says this: “I guess that’s the one I have most indirect experience with, and [...]

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Debates about “hooking up,” swinging from genuine concern to hysteria on both sides of political spectrum, have been raging throughout the 2000s.* And this week, it’s seemed to bubble up to the surface again. I’ve spent the day reading ruminations by teen girl expert and Teen Vogue advice columnist Rachel Simmons, the always-thought provoking Kate [...]

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Cyndi and Gaga kick sex-educating ass on Good Morning America. P.S. Georgie calls them the glam Thelma and Louise! (Not sure that’s entirely apt, but I liked it anyway for obvious reasons.)
UPDATE: More C & G being awesome on the Today Show.

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I was on GRITtv last Friday talking about Girldrive and other issues of the day (like the pro-life Superbowl ad) with the spitfire Texan feminist Shelby Knox and the take-no-shit director of the Women’s Media Center, Jehmu Greene. Check it out:

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May I present Girl-drive.com’s first guest blogger Julie Block (remember when I linked to her post-feminist manifesto and declared that she should be a famous writer? Well, she’s starting here). Julie, who is 23, originally from Evanston, Ill. and a student at Cornell where she writes for the Cornell Daily Sun, will be posting approximately [...]

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Continuing with my sex ed series (which I didn’t realize I was doing, but I guess I am!), may I present a convo I recently had with the pro-sex feminist bad-ass, Heather Corinna. Heather is the thirtysomething director of Scarleteen, the most popular sex-ed web resource for teens, a veteran feminist activist and author of [...]

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This is awesome. Congress passed the 2010 Omnibus Appropriations Bill over the weekend that eliminates abstinence-only funding in favor of evidence-based programs. I was scared for a second after the September 30 Senate vote to restore $50 million in abstinence-only dollars…but for the first time since 1981, ab-only dollars will truly be flushed down the [...]

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Cross-posted at Sadie Magazine

If you know me at all, you’re aware that abstinence-only sex education, or even preachy abstinence-plus sex education, is a huge pet peeve of mine. I’ve always been boggled by how much information about sex our culture witholds from teenagers, exactly when it’s needed most—when they’re first becoming independent, curious, and sexual. [...]

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