sex
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Talking to my son about sex and sustainability
"Are we going to talk about sex again?!" screamed my 12-year-old son. I had just sat down with him to have one of our father-son talks.
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How environmental and women’s groups can work together
Green groups and women's health advocates used to butt heads over population, but they're increasingly finding common ground in their support for family planning.
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Can smartphones serve as birth control? [VIDEO]
This amusing Indian ad suggests that smartphones can bring down birthrates. If you're having 3G fun, why bother with old-fashioned amorous pursuits?
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Rick Perry stumbles and mumbles as he tries to defend abstinence education [VIDEO]
"Abstinence works." That's Rick Perry's response to a question about why Texas is sticking with abstinence-only education despite its high teen pregnancy rate.
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Are vegetarians more fun in the sack?
Apparently vegetarians do eat meat. Data from the online dating site OKCupid indicate that vegetarians enjoy giving oral sex more — or anyway, they say they do. There are all sorts of causation and correlation-based theories we could attempt here, but we'll just let your imaginations run wild. We'll simply note that, inevitable confounding factors […]
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Noise pollution ruins the sex life of tits
Pickup artists among the great tits (a species of bird, ok?) know how to get chicks: They sing at low frequencies just before females of their species begin laying eggs. It's a great technique! Unless they happen to be hanging out near sources of noise pollution, like highways, which force the tits to change their tune to a higher pitch so that the girls can hear their song in the first place.
But that's when things start going wrong.
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PETA is starting a porn site
PETA has finally decided to drop the pretense that they're about something besides ladies in underwear. When .xxx domain names go into action in September, your friendly neighborhood animal rights crazies will be first in line -- and they presumably don't just intend the site for closeups of cow udders and literal beaver shots, but for the barely-clad, barely-legal college students that have become their trademark.
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Environmentalists need to care about abortion [VIDEO]
You can't have a sustainable society if women are having children they don't want. This video from the Guttmacher Institute looks at who's having abortions in America.
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Free birth control? We're getting closer … [UPDATE: We're there!]
Women will no longer have to make co-pays on birth control, the Obama administration announced on Aug. 1.