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Sex, gender, Stupak, and more

Here’s a cultural shift PAPER can get behind: an argument for premarital sex. It seems especially apropos considering some of the new fundie children’s devotionals.

Evidence that abstinence-only doesn’t work continues to pile up—STIs are spreading at “soaring rates.”

It’s an interesting week for porn. Sociological Images considers a new doc on the industry, and Jezebel’s take [...]

Healthcare reform ruckus and a rape tunnel

First off: Even TEXAS is admitting abstinence only sex ed doesn’t work, yet a clatch of those wacky Republicans just restored $50 million to fund abstinence only sex ed. Sigh.

More Republican wackiness: the conservative women calendar. Also this week, old school conservative lady Phyllis Schafly reminded us that feminism is “the most dangerous, destructive force [...]