Virginity pledges don’t work?: The WSJ has a puzzling rebuttal
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal begs to differ on the ineffectiveness of virginity pledges, as shown in a new Johns Hopkins study, among others. But their arguments are totally puzzling to...
View ArticleAmerican Teenagers: Not So Wild?
Tara Parker-Pope writes in her New York Times column that despite all our national hand-wringing, not all teenagers are off having sex somewhere right now. Teenage pregnancy rates have been increasing...
View ArticleCelebrate International Women’s Day: Sign a Petition for International Family...
Here’s a great way to celebrate International Women’s Day: Sign a petition to for Congress to allocate at least $1 billion dollars in U.S. international family planning assistance for fiscal year 2010....
View ArticleWhy do teen birthrates keep rising?
“If you spend $1.5 billion to spew shame-filled garbage to young people and then pass laws that limit their access to good information, contraception, emergency contraception and abortion, then you...
View ArticleNatalie Dylan is a role model to Romanian Virginity Auctioneer
Inspired by Natalie Dylan, who has been auctioning off her virginity under the auspices of Nevada’s Bunny Ranch brothel, 18-year-old Romanian Alina Percea has put her own virtue up for sale. Unemployed...
View ArticleRomanian teen hopes virginity auction will turn out like "Pretty Woman." We...
Copyright 2008 News Group Newspapers Ltd The Sun reports that 18-year-old Romanian student Alina Recea, who we wrote about a while back, successfully auctioned off her virginity to an Italian...
View ArticleDept. of Counter-Intuitive Contraception: Withdrawal is almost as effective...
Update: Since this item ran, there’s been a lot of discussion about the wisdom of withdrawal – and how effective this method really is. I think I was a bit too flippant about the issues involved so I...
View ArticleWhy are we more alarmed at the swine flu epidemic than HIV? [with update]
Update: Advocates for Youth is running a “Sound the Alarm” campaign asking congress to take action on funding for AIDS housing, federally funded syringe exchange programs and increasing global AIDS...
View Article"Last night as the Celtics were losing the game, I was losing my virginity"
Trixie Films intern Courtney writes about sharing our secrets: I always find reading other people’s secrets interesting, but secrets about virginity are much more enticing. Inspired by the Post Secret...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: Yarn "Love doesn’t have to show through sex"
This week’s V-Card Diaries interview comes from 19-year-old Yarn, who lives in Malaysia and writes a blog called Reflection of You and Me. She talks to us about the importance of respect, her concerns...
View ArticleDear Abby: Ever heard of contraception?
This question recently ran in Dear Abby: DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend “Adam” and I are high school seniors. We have been serious for only three months, but we’ve been dating for more than a year. He is...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: Natalie "I’m not going to be less picky just because I am no...
This week’s V-Card Diaries interview comes from 24-year-old Natalie, who talks to us about Ob/Gyn mom, the happiest day of her life and why she didn’t tell her partner she was a virgin. If you want to...
View ArticleEverything I know about sex I learned from "Letters to Penthouse Forum"…Or,...
A recent study showed the unsurprising fact that most parents either don’t talk to their kids about sex, or do so far later than they should. Maybe it’s denial that their kids are even thinking about...
View ArticleTips for a Safe and Sexy New Year’s Eve
Did you know that sales of emergency contraception more than double in the days after December 31st? And September is the month with the highest birthrate? Coincidence? Shelby Knox, who travels the...
View ArticleA Vulva Follow-Up: On Shamelips, German First Times, VaginaPagina and the...
I received several interesting responses to our post about German teen magazine Bravo’s article called “Every Vulva is Different.” This comment, from UnFit on the reCycling blog where it was...
View ArticleIf you’re in Boston, check out "Subjectified: Nine Young Women Talk About Sex"
Thanks to Aggie, the newest member of the Trixie Films family, for finding this trailer for the documentary “Subjectified: Nine Young Women Talk About Sex” by Melissa Tapper Goldman. Melissa...
View ArticleAnd the award for using the worst gender stereotypes to teach sex ed goes to…
We’re loving Shelby Knox’s new Tumblr blog This Is Misogyny which she describes as: “Pictures and quotes that exemplify misogyny in modern culture, including but not limited to objectification of...
View ArticleWhy casual sex won’t actually make you crazy, but Laura Sessions Stepp might
Sex.Really. does at least one thing right: They have Lena Chen blogging for them. You may remember Lena from some notorious goings-on at Harvard University that pitted her (and her blog Sex & The...
View ArticleEm & Lo & Virginity, Part 1
Occasionally, Em & Lo, whose topics tend to run more towards “Do Men Expect Women to Climax During Intercourse?” and “Best Walk of Shame Accessory Ever,” write about virginity. A relatively new...
View ArticleFirst-time sex: For some girls it happens without protection–and without consent
Cara at The Curvature reports on a (not-yet-peer-reviewed) study that claims girls take more chances during first sex, that is, are less likely to use birth control. Which has researchers confused,...
View ArticleAbstinent Deceptions: Why the Situation-Bristol Palin PSA Is Worse Than You...
At first, I thought I sort of liked the new ‘The Situation’ – Bristol Palin abstinence PSA, and not even ironically. My expectations, cultivated by a longtime familiarity with...
View ArticleNew study challenges the belief that everyone is doing it but you.
The media has been all over a new study from the Centers for Disease Control about the surprisingly large numbers of teens and young adults who haven’t had sex. Now, if you read this blog regularly,...
View ArticleCrosspost: Teenagers and group sex: A cause for concern? by Dr. Petra Boynton
Note from Therese: The media’s been full of breathless hype over a study describing a trend of young women being coerced into multiple-partner sex. The coverage prompted commenters to actually suggest...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: Mia “I wanted to be in love with the guy, because who knows...
Our latest V-Card Diaries comes from Mia from California, who gives us a major wallop of wisdom on why losing virginity shouldn’t just about penis-in-vagina sex–especially if that’s not the way you get...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: S.O. “We were just making out one minute, and the next...
Our latest V-Card Diaries comes from S.O. from Boston, MA, who discusses a relationship she describes as abusive and manipulative. We thank her for sharing this difficult story. If you want to tell...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: Sarah “I don’t agree with my mother that the doctor took my...
Our latest V-Card Diaries comes from Sarah from Newfoundland. She’s 26 now, but this tale of doctors, mothers and pap smears happened when she was a couple months shy of 17. If you want to tell your...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: Paul “I’m shy and socially awkward, and still happy to be a...
Our latest V-Card Diaries comes from Paul, a 29-year-old man in Atlanta, who believes that staying a virgin has helped him avoid STIs. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d...
View ArticleWhen it comes to losing their virginity, are boys more romantic, more...
From time to time we republish our favorite posts. This originally ran in April, 2012. “The proportion of all American adolescents in their mid-teens claiming sexual experience has decreased, and for...
View ArticleTalking Virginity with Adjoa Sankofia Tetteh: “If their kids have lost their...
From time to time we republish our favorite posts. This originally ran in June 2012. We caught up with Sexuality Educator Adjoa Sankofia Tetteh at MomentumCon in DC and asked her about how her clients...
View ArticleV-Card Diaries: Dru “Losing your virginity in the Bible Belt is a huge deal,...
Our latest V-Card Diaries comes from Dru in North Texas, who thought the inaccurate advice she got in Sex Ed was appalling and disgusting. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form....
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