An economic analysis of the relationship between pre-marital sex and its destigmatization.

Study from the National Campaignt to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy finds unprecedented vast ignorance about reproduction and contraception among American youth. Thanks, abstinence-only and sex-negativity!

What an anti-teen sexting bill ought to look [...]]]> Happy post-Derby recuperation, and here’s a [very distilled] round-up from the interim.

An economic analysis of the relationship between pre-marital sex and its destigmatization.

Study from the National Campaignt to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy finds unprecedented vast ignorance about reproduction and contraception among American youth. Thanks, abstinence-only and sex-negativity!

What an anti-teen sexting bill ought to look like. Take heed, Kentucky legislators.

Advice to a twentysomething raised by sex-negative religious parents… who now feels terrible guilt about sex, even while married.

ROCK’s been endorsing this stupid effort by the Family Foundation of Kentucky to make all strippers keep distance from clients and wear pasties.

More investigation into the fundies with too much power in this country, from Rachel Maddow:

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Well, what do you know? Strip clubs are safer than churches! At least in Australia.

Next Saturday is the day before Mother’s Day, and that means we ought to help EMW out. [And, you know, call our moms and such.] The protesters continue to get coverage, especially after anti-choice starlet Lila Rose leaked a heavily-edited two-year-old attack video about EMW. [See Planned Parenthood's response to such attacks here.]

Meanwhile, a ten-year-old Mexican girl is being refused an abortion. Maybe this will be the tipping point for Mexican abortion rights–we can only hope.

A woman live-tweeted her abortion.

Abortion and contraception aren’t new–they have a 4000 year history!

Pro-Choice Public Education Project: education about abortion-related SCOTUS cases.

Gallup finds that education “trumps” gender in predicting abortion rights support.

Now this is the sort of class homophobes can proudly claim: after a Mississippi lesbian student, Constance McMillen, asked to take her girlfriend to the prom [while dressed in a tux, *gasp*], the school canceled the whole prom. You can picture how much this pleased the rest of the students. After the school was forced to hold the prom, however, McMillen and her date and some disabled students were the only ones who attended. It was a decoy prom. The real prom had been held elsewhere, and kept secret from McMillen and the others.

Well, at least DC passed a resolution against the Uganda kill-the-gays bill.

More science shows that the Pill won’t kill us.

What does porn for women really look like?

A bunch of fundies got Morrison’s Song of Solomon banned from a school. ROCK frequently endorses this tactic–what did you read in school that someone objects to?

A cornucopia of climaxes: the language of orgasm.

Also, we’re updating, adding, and tweaking throughout the site. We’re also planning some new post features. Stay tuned!

Utterly awful: supporters of Scott Roeder, the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Tiller, tried to raise money with eBay auctions. Link includes pictures of Roeder’s drawings, which are [...]]]> More on the sex offender ruling. This is an ongoing story—let’s continue to hope for policy that differentiates between violent offenders, pedophiles, and people who made stupid mistakes.

Utterly awful: supporters of Scott Roeder, the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Tiller, tried to raise money with eBay auctions. Link includes pictures of Roeder’s drawings, which are just ghastly. Thankfully eBay has removed all the auctions!

Sigh… Planned Parenthood director becomes anti-abortion activist. Unsurprisingly, more and more details just aren’t making sense. We too smell a right-wing ploy.

More on Mexico’s abortion wars.

A visual history of birth control. Pretty neat!

Colbert on gay rights:

Houston may get its first gay mayor.

New study says that larger foreskins may increase risk of AIDS contraction. This is part of a continuing move to increase circumcision, particularly in hard-hit places in Africa.

Good news: Obama lifted the ban on HIV+ people coming into the US.

Oklahoma continues to crack down on teen sexting, and warns teens there are consequences—i.e., the consequences a stupid law creates. Come on, Oklahoma.

Do you suffer from restless vagina syndrome? On women’s sexual dysfunction and profiting from it.

Criminalizing prostitution will be very bad for Rhode Island. Yup.

Story on runaways and underage prostitution. All the more reason to put strong protections in for sex workers and write better sex trafficking laws.

Outrageous: a sixteen year old girl gets life without parole for killing her abusive pimp. Two SCOTUS cases on the docket could keep this kind of nonsense from happening—let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Reproductive justice recommendations from an international panel.

Yet again conservatives move further right: moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava forced out of NY race, essentially by a Conservative candidate. Scozzafave has since endorsed the Democrat—this is going to be interesting. Also in big election news today are two big gay rights initiatives, one in Maine to repeal gay marriage and one in Washington to allow gay partnerships. Tonight’s news will be big, however these turn out.

More on abstinence only and how it does NOT belong in healthcare reform. And here’s some nauseating abstinence-promoting, patriarchy-glorifying young adult “literature.”

The sad plight and oppression of Somalian women. Unsurprisingly, fundies are to blame.

From the animal world: teacher suspended for having his students read about gay animal behavior, the oral sex lives of bats, and four animals with interesting sex lives.

Lastly, the abortion link page and blog list have new additions.

Second, today was [...]]]> First off: this Saturday, 10/24, is the Kentucky Right to Life Convention, and our abortion clinic is expecting an uptick in protesters. Check out Every Saturday Morning to get involved—they will need more escorts than usual. A local anti-choice archbishop is even getting Louisville national attention. Let’s hope this Saturday is peaceful.

Second, today was the Theatair X hearing. The decision, the article says, will probably take a few weeks.

Profile of the most vocal abstinence-only lobbyist.

This’ll get messy: SCOTUS will hear a sex slave case… as in, a sex slave case with a lot of BDSM ramifications.

Inside sex trafficking and why it’s so hard to fight. There’s more on this topic here. Both are long, sad, worthwhile reads.

Very interesting: They shoot porn stars, don’t they? An unflinching look at what goes on in Porn Valley.

And here’s a mean-spirited one: a lesbian teen who took her senior photo in a tux won’t be pictured in the yearbook. Really pitiful.