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Who buys Plan B? No orgasms for 30 years. How to cure Vaginosis. And the teens are hugging again?
Another week and another roundup of the best the interwebs have to offer:
Over at Lemondrop, they are quite amused by big media's concern about "sexting." I tend to agree, no teen is sending IWYTRBAOMFATWMEABS (I Want You To Rub Butter All Over My Face And Then Watch Me A Banana Slowly). You have to be at least 21 years weird for that sort of fetish.
According to the gang at The Frisky, another teen epidemic has the grownups spooked: hugging. The act is even being banned in some schools and perhaps Entourage is to blame? It … Read More
A New York federal judge has made it legal for 17-year-olds to purchase the morning after pill.
For those of you on the women's choice side of the reproductive fence, Monday's ruling by a federal judge to make Plan B available to 17-year-olds without a prescription was a big, bad liberal success.
Plan B—known as the "morning after pill"—is to be taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex in hopes of warding off an unwanted pregnancy. Regardless of the fact scientific evidence proved the pill perfectly safe for 17-year-olds, before yesterday's ruling the drug was only available behind pharmacy counters to women 18 and up.
Judge Edward R. Korman of the federal district court … Read More
Rachel Kramer Bussel dissects why and how unprotected sex happens.
2006 was a year of unprotected sex for me. No, not every time, but I started off the year with a fling with a slightly older man I was besotted with, who didn’t speak a word about condoms, and, in response, I didn’t either. I wanted to trust that he had some magical knowledge that somehow I was missing, that maybe the world had overturned itself and they were no longer necessary. I was wrong, and after a pregnancy panic as I searched for Plan B—this was right before it was so readily available—I escaped unscathed. Then later that … Read More
Keeping romantic options may be human nature.
Master P once sang, "I can be your n*, he can be your man. Ain't no need to leave him, everybody need a backup plan." That was back in '97, was Percy Miller onto something? Our buddies at Shine think he may have been. Quoting a story from Psychology Today, they said that people have an emotional tendency to keep 1 on the backburner. Or said differently, there's a susceptibility to sticking with good enough in the hopes that 'the one' comes along.
While the concepts are slightly different, the implicit message is that options are kept … Read More