Sex Education
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MSNBC’s Toure: Can a man be a feminist, too?
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We were so happy to hear Toure, one of the anchors of MSNBC’s The Cycle, talk about a favorite topic of ours: men can and should ascribe to feminism. The battle for any identity group’s liberation cannot and should not proceed solely with members of that group, and it never does. Not only is feminism…
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Jamie Raskin, law professor and Maryland State Senator, is trying in vain to explain to the luddites in Congress why free speech shouldn’t cover things like bribery to politicians, recently okayed by the US Supreme Court in several rulings. He wisely invokes prostitution to get their attention, to show the context of free speech, but…
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Rape Culture We are so grateful to author and actor Zaron Burnett (@zaron3) and Medium (@medium) for bringing his essay that puts misogyny and rape culture in a feminist perspective. It is a must-read for every young (and old) man, women too. It continues the important conversation that has finally (and…
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The Erotic Vitalizes Life
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Here is another excerpt from our upcoming book, The Unseen Journey (working title), all about the connection between the erotic and spirituality. A first step is to start you thinking analytically about sex, reproduction, and the erotic senses so you can understand their distinct differences. We are still editing the final manuscript so all comments…
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Woefully bad news for Mothers and Children
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Save the Children Report Ranks Best and Worst Places to Be a Mother: U.S. Drops to 31st . . . If you read this report, can you not be radicalized by its findings? Countries faring the worst were those affected by humanitarian crises . . Worldwide, more than half of all maternal and child deaths…
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Yes, it’s true, anti-LGBT laws kill
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Quantifying the Effects of Homophobia Providing the quantifiable effects of homophobia will allow policy makers, economists, and global leaders to better understand that anti-gay laws ultimately do more harm than good, to LGBT people and the population at large. –Dominic Bocci for The Advocate Society must be kept accountable for the facts that an LGBT…
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“As many as 11% of U.S. women ages 15-44 who have ever had sexual intercourse have used a “morning after” pill at least once, or 5.8 million women. Half say they used it because they feared their birth control method may have failed, and the rest say they had unprotected sex.” –First Federal Report on…
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In 2011, the secretary of health and human services’ banned over-the-counter sales of emergency birth control to girls under age 17… in 2013, a federal judge challenged this decision. When Kathleen Sebelius, former health secretary of President Obama, blocked the sale of emergency birth control (commonly referred as the “morning after pill” or by its…
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Although social conservatives have dominated discourse around religion and sexuality, it turns out that millions of religious and spiritual youth and adults believe that faith, and a positive approach to healthy sexuality, are not mutually exclusive. I never thought that I would see that day where I would come across an article discussing how Churches…
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47% of fathers in Saudi Arabia find it difficult to answer their children s questions related to sex and about 87% find it embarrassing to answer the questions, and, as a result, they tend to ignore them. Professor Amal Mohammed Banouna In her recent research study of the position of parents and teachers on offering…