Support is overwhelming for sex ed that teaches young people about contraception, healthy relationships, and STIs, in combination with abstinence, according to public opinion polling from SIECUS. Yet ...

Dworkin is with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute ... the Society's position paper on abstinence-only education. JS was the primary author ...

This article first appeared on KFF Health News. In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun ...

Our Department of Education, complying with legislative edicts, is yielding to the Victorian prudery of pressure groups like ...

Is it better for young people to get factual information in the classroom, or have attitudes shaped by TV situation comedies ...

Over a quarter of lawmakers will take their seats in the Wisconsin Legislature for the first time in 2025, with six new state ...

It was 2007 and at 17, I’d already been sexually active for two years and with multiple partners. I had rarely used a condom. I fiddled with the purity ring I wore on a chain around my neck while I ...

Education Minister Luis Fernando Ramirez downplayed the controversy, stressing there was still time to improve the curriculum before enforcing it. “There’s no expenditure of state funds,” he ...

U.S. Marines in a communications shop played a little prank on naive young guys who arrived, right out of bootcamp, at Camp Pendleton many years ago. Our World War II-era radios had big glass ...

Abstinence and outercourse are VERY effective at preventing pregnancy — but only if you don’t slip up and have unprotected vaginal sex or get any semen in the vagina. If you never get semen (cum) on ...

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more ...

U S Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has called for warning labels on alcoholic beverages to include the risk of cancer citing ...