If you know the history of the development of sex education programs then its current failures are not all that surprising. Sex education in the U.S. was born out of the social hygiene movement in the early 1900s. Sex was often chastised as immoral and deviant, and was considered a fast track to disease. Not […]
Kinsey Study Suggests Camsite Interactions Can Be Educational
A large qualitative study by researchers affiliated with the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University suggests that as many as 12% of male clients who regularly use erotic webcam sites such as Livejasmin.com or Chaturbate feel they have learned things they did not previously know about obtaining sexual consent and/or respecting partners. Since the mechanics of […]
Adolescents’ encounters with online porn
A newly published study of 1,004 Australian adolescents aged 16-18 brings bad news for those who continue to believe in the sexual innocence of minors. About 69% have encountered porn by age 16, and 40% of those who have seen it did so by the age of 12. While some, especially girls, first encounter it […]
Queer characters in children’s books causing alarm for some parents
The Supreme Court is hearing a case that centers around elementary school curriculum, who gets to curate it, and queer visibility. The case is about how the Montgomery County school board in Maryland greenlit the use of five storybooks that contain LGBTQ+ characters, to which some parents objected, citing conflicts with their religious beliefs. Oh […]