Clipped from: www.vancouversun.com by clp.ly The Vancouver Sun has an article today about the potential impact of the mainstream media on safer sex practices in which they quote an editorial by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania: The media is influencing their normative beliefs about sex: whether or not […]

via the Salt Lake Tribune The Utah Senate committee unanimously passed SB155, a law which will allow third-degree felony charges to be brought against sex workers who have tested positive for HIV. Usually, sex work is prosecuted as a misdemeanor in Utah, but there is a mechanism to amp it up to a felony if […]

There’s been lots more buzz lately about the porn HIV case. Fortunately, there are some places where a more reasonable and informed conversation is taking place. Rather than reiterate it all, here’s a few pointers. Ernest Greene’s blog, with lots of great comments & discussion: here, here & here. That third link has pointers to […]

I’ve written before about how abstinence-only sex miseducation doesn’t work, as have lots of other people. Here’s another piece of evidence. According to the report to Changing Behavior Risk for Pregnancy Among High School Students in the United States, 1991–2007, which the Guttmacher Institute released, teen pregnancy rates are clearly linked to contraceptive use. It’s […]

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 […]

From Aidsmap via Carnal Nation New research in the online journal AIDS shows that more than 50% of HIV transmissions among gay men are from main (as compared to casual) sexual partners and 46% of infections were from partners who thought that they were HIV-negative. That’s pretty scary- lots of people out there are telling […]

It’s official! The White House has released the proposed 2010 federal budget and funding for abstinence-only education misinformation and propaganda masquerading as science is gone!!!! Community Based Abstinence Education funding is gone!!!! Title V abstinence-only funding is gone!!!! (scroll to page 39 of the pdf for the section on sex education) True to his word, […]