If you're a girl and spent any time in the library as a kid, you inevitably read some Judy Blume. (Hopefully along with The Babysitter's Club and Goosebumps.) Perhaps, like me, you actually felt guilty reading some passages, or found yourself blushing madly even though nobody was around. Lemondrop: Are Romance Novels Soft-Core Porn For Women?

Let's face it: Judy Blume explained a lot of stuff our parents didn't. (Or did, but the conversation was so awkward you've never looked at your dad the same again.) Here are just a few sex lessons that got us through those awkward junior-high … Read More

We remember the class in college called "Human Sexuality" for which there was usually a long waiting list. For that, you received a simple textbook. Now there are museums. And talk about an interactive exhibit. The new "Amora Sex Academy" that opened its doors in Berlin Thursday encourages visitors to explore the male and female mannequins on display for hands-on (literally) lesson in human sexuality, reports Caroline Copley for Reuters.

The purpose of the museum is to educate visitors on everything sexual, from the location of the erogenous zones to how to perfect a striptease, oral … Read More

North Carolina teens have a new way of getting answers to the burning questions they have about sex but may be too embarrassed to ask aloud. Teens ages 14 to 19 can now text the Birds & Bees Text Line, launched in February 2009 by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of NC, reports Jan Hoffman for the New York Times.

The questions haven't changed much. They mirror those that have long been found in the Q&A columns of teen magazines or anonymously scribbled onto little slips of paper in middle-school health classrooms. The difference? Within 24 hours, each teen … Read More

Dad balked about paying for my NYU classes "intro to grassroots organizing" and "pop culture and politics," which he insisted wouldn't help me get a job. And he was sorta right. 

So it's a good thing that I was not in NYU's "psychosexual analysis of human behavior" course, which I have a feeling Bill O'Reilly's going to be screaming about.  Why?  The professor asked students to stand up in front of the class and use their hands to show how using lube makes sex better.   Useful, yes. But not $40,000-a-year useful!

According to NYULocal, the NYU blog, professor … Read More

The country that brought loopy eyeliner, messy beehive hairdos and people named "Posh" and "Becks" to American culture has finally come up with something reasonable.  Let's hope this one gets imported -- right, mate?  

Sex education will now be obligatory for public school students in Britain in order to address the teen pregnancy rate, says Schools Minister Jim Knight.  Britain, which has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Western Europe, decided nine years ago to cut the teen pregnancy rate in half by 2010.  Compulsory sex ed is one step in its master plan -- and … Read More

You're not in high school anymore: Sex education doesn't mean learning how to roll a condom onto a cucumber, and experimentation shouldn't be an apology-filled romp in your parents' basement. Hot, helpful instruction exists that can assist you with everything from tantric lovemaking to anal sex. Whether you want live Q&A or a private lesson with your DVD player, our sexperts have picks that will get you hot for teacher.