- 1. Not Sure What To Do Regarding Roe v. Wade? Abortion Access Front Can Help You Take Real Action
- (Living)
- ... manager Abortion Access Front), and Marie Khan (Activist, volunteer coordinator Abortion Access Front), the podcast has episodes on Abstinence-Only sex-education, Fake Abortion clinics, and really, any ...
- Created on 25 May 2022
- 2. The Freeform Network Scores Big With Simone Finch's New Series "Single Drunk Female," A Show Focused On Starting Over And Getting Sob
- (TV)
- SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE Freeform’s “Single Drunk Female” stars Sofia Black-D’Elia as Samantha Fink. Single Drunk Female, Freeform’s new television series about sobriety written by Simone Finch (The Connors, ...
- Created on 28 January 2022
- 3. Calling All Lady Stoners: On Shame, Gender, and Weed
- (Living)
- ... a physical manifestation of depression and called it a day. A week before my declaration of abstinence, I trudged to the ER for fluids and Zofran after twenty hours of nonstop purging. The physician ...
- Created on 18 December 2020
- 4. This OB/GYN On TikTok Has No Time For Fake News
- (Feminism)
- ... of people down an hour-long technology rabbit hole. Recently, a TikTok video went viral when a nurse advised young people that the only way to STI’s and STD’s was abstinence before marriage. Although ...
- Created on 29 January 2020
- 5. Victorian Advice For Dry January
- (Entertainment)
- ... doctors continued to recommend alcohol fasts throughout the nineteenth century. Religious groups and temperance societies continued to urge total abstinence. As a happy medium, I close this article with ...
- Created on 02 January 2019
- 6. What "Twilight" Taught Us About Sex And Virginit
- (Movies)
- ... shirtless werewolves, Twilight promotes a harmful, hyper-conservative, abstinence-only message around sex. Bella must not only first marry Edward before having sex, but she has to want to have sex so ...
- Created on 05 December 2018
- 7. This Website Gives You the Sex Ed You Never Had
- (Sex)
- ... Today compared abstinence-only education—the platform that many states place value in—to not teaching teenagers how to drive a car, due to fear of accidents. The article then goes on to say that sex education ...
- Created on 13 July 2018
- 8. Meet The Satanic Feminists Who Are Fighting For Social Justice
- (Feminism)
- ... that would smash all concepts of what a ‘church’ was supposed to be. This was a temple of indulgence to openly defy the temples of abstinence that had been built up until then. We didn’t want it to be ...
- Created on 21 June 2018
- 9. Whatever Happened To Those Girls Who Signed "Purity Pledges"? Hint: It's Not Go
- (Sex)
- ... statistics, the average American loses their virginity at around 17. But between 1994 and 2004, as many as 2.5 million American youth signed abstinence pledges, promising to abstain from sex before marriage. ...
- Created on 10 April 2018
- 10. Sex Ed Should Teach Girls About Sexual Pleasure
- (Sex)
- ... pregnancy, the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the industrialized world. In schools that teach abstinence-only education, the rates of STIs and unwanted pregnancy are not reduced, ...
- Created on 20 February 2018
- 11. Rob Kardashian, Revenge Porn Is Never Okay
- (Feminism)
- ... And of course, there are the trolls with victim-blaming statements like “If you don’t want it made public, don’t send it at all.” But this line of thinking is a lot like teaching abstinence-only sex ed ...
- Created on 10 July 2017
- 12. A Romanian-Born, Texas-Raised Woman’s Pledge in Trump’s America: Keep Fighting for Better Sex Ed
- (Sex)
- ... is a moral utopia to most GOP politicians. Thoughts about how virginity was compared to a cookie not to be crumbled, a gift to be re-wrapped, and a sticky note in my abstinence-only sex education growing ...
- Created on 01 December 2016
- 13. This Election Has Broken My Brain, But The GOP Platform Is In Black And White
- (Living)
- ... with abstinence-only approaches: “We renew our call for replacing 'family planning' programs for teens with sexual risk avoidance education that sets abstinence until marriage as the responsible and respected ...
- Created on 04 November 2016
- 14. The Feminist Reason Why Millennials Are Having Less Sex
- (Sex)
- Being pressured to have sex just isn't cool anymore, according to a new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. The study, which came out Tuesday, states that while the vast majority of ...
- Created on 03 August 2016
- 15. 10 Ways Parents Can Fight Rape Culture
- (Feminism)
- ... and purport otherwise. Moms and dads can help refute this. 7. Demand comprehensive sex education from your local schools. Vote for candidates who will fund comprehensive sex education and not abstinence-only ...
- Created on 26 July 2016
- 16. How A College Instructor Sees The Campus Rape Epidemic
- (Feminism)
- ... abstinence-only are probably even worse off. This must change. Early education and intervention, especially for young men, is going to be vital if rape culture is going to turn into a culture of consent. ...
- Created on 27 June 2016
- 17. What A One Night Stand Taught This Feminist About Sexual Healing: BUST True Story
- (Sex)
- ... abstinence-only dogma, and about the rape in my mid-twenties. And then, over the course of our eight year relationship, he’d thrown them all back in my face. If I turned down sex, I had too many hang-ups. ...
- Created on 23 June 2016
- 18. The Illegal Birth Control Handbook That Flooded College Campuses In The 1960s
- (Sex)
- ... She adds that some people think these issues are over. But there’s still a long way to go. With abstinence-only sex education on the rise and continuing debates in the U.S. over birth control being covered ...
- Created on 12 May 2016
- 19. Mississippi Passes The Most Insane Anti-Sex Law Ever
- (Living)
- ... above — anyone who’s not a hetero, cis, abstinence-practicing individual. That’s a huge amount of the population that won’t be able to receive these services anymore, and the state can do nothing about ...
- Created on 04 April 2016
- 20. Sex Ed In A Christian High School: BUST True Story
- (Sex)
- ... the government to allocate taxpayer money to abstinence-only advocacy programs—ostensibly to stop the spike in unintended pregnancies, as well as to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS that Reagan had yet to acknowledge ...
- Created on 04 April 2016
