Providing information and resources for parents, youth workers and educators to help kids navigate their sexuality.
It’s terrific that athletes and celebrities are doing their part to educate teens about the issue of sexual violence. There are others, however, that also have the attention of teens, but that are not helping the situation.
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Curriculums promoting only abstinence, without comprehensive lessons around safe sex practices, often ignore the reality that many teens experiment with sex before they graduate high school. Read the full article here.
A new documentary now streaming on Vimeo discusses “purity culture” through interviews and testimonies from pastors, researchers, and those who grew up under these ideals. Read the article here and watch the full documentary here.
3 truths to replace false assumptions we learned from the youth group, from Relevant magazine. Read the article here.
Melissa Edgington posts a powerful reminder for girls on her website “Your Mom Has A Blog.” Read the blog post here.
As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see. Read the article here.
Crass, sexually suggestive banners “welcoming” freshmen women to a Virginia college last week have sparked outrage and led to the suspension of at least one of the school’s fraternities.
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Incoming freshmen at Duke University are reportedly refusing to read their summer novel, Fun Home – an LGBT graphic novel – due to their Christian and moral beliefs.
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An Indiana teenager was placed on the sex offender registry after meeting an underage girl on the Internet, who lied about her age, and then having sex with her.
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After years of steep declines, the rates of teens having sex has plateaued, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released July 22, 2015.
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More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic increase that likely reflects that it’s easier now for teens to buy the emergency contraceptive.
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Teenage girls are under more sexual pressure than ever before, so it’s time to stop judging and start helping them.
Read the article from the Australian Women’s Weekly here.
From the article from Carl R. Trueman for the First Things blog:
Tony Campolo has become the latest evangelical leader to declare for gay marriage. It is perhaps not a surprise: Campolo has been a gadfly in the evangelical world throughout his career and his adoption of this cause is of a piece with many of his other pronouncements over the years. While his move is unlikely to have a great impact on evangelicalism—far more significant will be the coming shifts on the issue by megachurch pastors—his statement is emblematic of the way evangelical attitudes are likely to change.
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We’re a culture obsessed with parenthood, or “parenting,” as we like to call it, but when it comes to the hazards of sex, our approach falls somewhere between passivity and paralysis.
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A new study of first-year women at a large private university in the Northeastern U.S. reveals that many freshman women have suffered some form of rape.
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Polls show that most Americans think teenage pregnancy is either as common as it used to be or more frequent. They’re wrong.
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In a recent survey, 68% of teens said they agreed with this statement: The primary reason why they don’t use birth control or protection is because they’re afraid their parents will find out.
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More Big Apple high school students than ever say they are abstaining from sex, a health poll reveals.
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Even those who save sex for marriage have to deal with feelings of guilt.
Read more of this article from RELEVANT here.
Researchers in the UK examined children and teens and assessed the correlation between watching music videos and sexual activity and perception.
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