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"Ignorance Is Bliss”: An Opinionated Mom’s Perspective on TEEN SEX

Of course we don’t want our teenagers to “do it,” but when puberty hits, it’s on. The train is on the track. Hormones start raging and there is no stopping them. Crush number one begins with a shy smile on the way to their locker. Crush two hits with a whiff of the quarterback’s sweat after a football game. The giggles. The flutters. Our girls can’t stop thinking about the boys…and our boys can’t wait to feel up those girls. We can pretend it isn’t happening and...

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  • rochesternative

    I would like to respectfully disagree with knodceo. I also teach in the inner city...although I teach Pre-K. Even THERE I have to address issues of appropriateness as the music, MTV etc. is so overly sexualized. I try to address this with the parents individually if I have a concern. I also teach the girls to sit "like a lady" if they are wearing a dress and make sure to congratulate...
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Recent studies from University of Western Ontario and University of Illinois at Chicago are finding that men who help clean, take care of their kids, and do other domestic chores around the home, get more action in the bedroom.  The concept of “choreplay” may be the best foreplay yet- and is backed up by research data that reflects that women are more likely to want to have...

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On June 10, Cape Cod voted unanimously for a sex education policy that allows all children, elementary and high school alike, to seek out a counselor and obtain condoms without parental consent. Public outcry, including that of Democratic Governor Deval Patrick, are forcing district officials to reconsider an age limitation to this new ruling.  The Provincetown School District, the...

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Miss Michigan won the Miss USA pageant, becoming the first Arab American to do so. It has now come out that Rima Fakih pole danced on Detroit radio’s Mojo in the morning show back in 2007. The radio show has posted photos of Fakih dancing, on their website. During the pole dancing contest, she is wearing shorts and t-shirt and did not remove her clothing. Fakih did win...

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The Pill is celebrating its 50th anniversary.  According to Dr. Ruth, "we are all across the world very fortunate that the pill came on the market...how wonderful that a woman doesn't have to worry all the time." For the last 100 years, we've been gradually separating sex from reproduction.  Since it’s arrival, the contraceptive pill has given women the...

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Twenty years worth of Boy Scout files containing 1,100 reports on troop leaders suspected of molesting have come to light. The confidential “Perversion Files” have been released as evidence in a $14 million law suit. A now 37 year old man is charging his scoutmaster with abuse. The scoutmaster charged in the case has already been convicted three times of sexually abusing boys. The...

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