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This week YourTango was all about you, even if you missed it.
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That's because this week YourTango was all about you. From our advice on why technological compatibility is important to your blogs on sex education and your questions seeking advice, there was only one thing on our minds this week: You!
But, just in case you were too busy developing a narcissistic complex that would put Narcissus to shame, here's this week's best.
Community Blog: Teaching Our Kids About Sex
BookMama tells us about her son's sex education and wonders how to broach the subject.
A new way for teens to ask red-faced sex Qs, save embarrasment and shame. Is it a good idea?
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
Sue Johanson ends sex-talk show.
Tune in: This Sunday marks the final show for Sue Johanson's Talk Sex. The show was borne from a 1984 Canadian radio show, where Johanson spoke on practical advice and STDs. It blossomed into a full-fledged sex-talk show (vibrators, G-spots, and anal, oh my!) on the Oxygen network, which has hosted the program over the last six years.
Johanson stresses that she is not being pushed out, and that she’s had a great run. At 77 years old, retirement does seem like a viable option…
Johanson’s last episode will feature the year’s top … Read More
The figures from 2006 on teen pregnancy are in. And teen pregnancy beat...
US Teen Births On The Rise Last Year
From The Associated Press
By Mike Stobbe
ATLANTA - In a troubling reversal, the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials and reviving the bitter debate about abstinence-only sex education.
The birth rate had been dropping since its peak in 1991, although the decline had slowed in recent years. On Wednesday, government statisticians said it rose 3 percent from 2005 to 2006.
The reason for the increase is not clear, and federal health officials said it might be a one-year statistical blip, not the … Read More