From Talking Points Memo's "Ten Magical Things You Have to Believe to be A Republican":
Being a Republican means believing that teenagers today will have less sex than they did when you were a teenager if you just spend enough money telling them abstinenance is good.
Headline via Mike Riggs via commenter.
Waiting for the dough: Tsubata and children Lan Lee, Kensei Tsubata, and Mie Smith
Kate Tsubata is not your typical abstinence advocate. She wants you to choose one person to have sex with for the rest of your life, but her fidelity to the movement’s traditions ends there. She refuses to draft no-sex pledges, forge promise [...]
Oops. March 8th to the 14th was "DC Abstinence Awareness Week," and most District residents probably unknowingly had sex through the whole thing. The Washington Aids International Teens (WAIT) group, "a performing arts group that emphasizes abstinence education through entertainment," entertained; the Ultra Teen Choice group chose "Character, not Condoms." For those who, instead, engaged [...]
Actually, this is enough to make me not want to have sex ever again.
The Washington Post's editorial board published a piece today arguing that "Pope Benedict XVI Is Wrong on Condoms." An understatement, sure, but I was still glad to see our newspaper of record take God's gift to Africa down a notch. Until I [...]
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Bristol Palin appeared on Greta Van Susteren's show last night, and Van Susteren actually asked her if she was "lazy about or not interested in" contraception. Palin replied, "I don't want to get into detail about that," which probably means, "The condom broke, and you can't buy emergency contraception from the Wasilla pharmacist if you're [...]
Little girls who recently pledged their abstinence until marriage: I've got bad news and I've got good news. The bad news is that some study just came out saying those pledges don't work. As it turns out, girls who pledge to stay chaste—even those who ensure their virginity through collectible tween-sized silvercrafts or ornate pre-prom [...]
