Via Carnal Nation According to ABC.com, a sixth grader in San Diego county was going to present a class report on Harvey Milk and was stopped because the school requires permission slips from the parents before teaching the kids about sex. Now, I can understand having a concern that the report might be controversial, although […]

Via Facebook (thanks, Jen!) Spread the word! There’s a new support group forming for intersex folks at New Leaf Services in San Francisco. See below for deets. Also relevant for intersex folks and the people in their lives is Advocates for Informed Choice, a legal advocacy group for children born with variations of sexual anatomy […]

One more post for today. The new Leather Archives & Museum exhibit is gathering community input in order to develop a library of the best BDSM-related books. Clarisse Thorn (who, by the way, has a fab blog that I highly recommend) has created an online poll to make it easier to make sure that nothing […]

via Carnal Nation Does it seem to you that the anti-gay marriage folks are getting a little desperate to come up with a logical, reasonable explanation for why they don’t want gays to marry (besides their homophobia, I mean)? You’ll love this one, then. GOP Chairman Michael Steele has proposed that if gays are allowed […]

Via @clarissethorn Orgasm Inc. is a new film that premiered at the Hot Docs Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario about the ongoing trend to medicalize female sexuality. As we’ve seen over and over, there’s a lot of money to be made by promising better sex. But a female equivalent of Viagra has yet to be developed. […]

A new report by the Guttmacher Institute shows that withdrawal (aka pulling out and coitus interruptus) may be more effective than was previously thought. According to “Better Than Nothing or Savvy Risk-Reduction Practice? The Importance of Withdrawal,” by Rachel K. Jones et al., in the June 09 issue of Contraception, “perfect use” of withdrawal results […]

Given that the Obama administration has stopped funding abstinence-only sex misinformation, I’m sure that lots of schools are scrambling to figure out what to do. Fortunately, Planned Parenthood just launched an amazing site which is full of resources, information and support. If you work with kids, or if you have kids, or if you know […]