Human Sexuality News

State lawmakers have passed legislation that would mandate schools that teach sex education in Illinois also would have to give students information about birth control.

This week, with the release of the DSM-V, the latest edition of the psychiatric bible that defines and diagnoses mental-health disorders, experts thought we'd finally get some answers about who's just on the extreme end of the horny spectrum and who's got an actual clinical problem.

The bill, which a committee will consider Friday, would require studios to ensure that performers are safe from sexually transmitted diseases by wearing condoms or other protective barriers during filming.

The Pittsfield School Committee is out to revamp the sex education program, which has come under fire for being inadequate, incomplete and largely irrelevant, according to students.

It is not wrong. And there is no passage about premarital sex. The closest it comes is passages on prostitution.

With what seems to have been very little controversy over such a heated topic, the Illinois Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would change the way Illinois public schools teach sex education.

Sex education is causing a bit of a rift in the legislature. A new bill would require schools that teach Sex Ed to include lessons on contraceptive methods, including abstinence, for kids in 6th through 12th grades.

I'll take Beautiful Creatures over The Twilight Saga any day. Sure, it's got the same human-supernatural teen romance at its centre, but the young lovers spend far less time moping, so the proceedings are considerably livelier.

What and how much children should learn in school about sex and contraception varies from person to person.

Teens are bombarded from all sides when it comes to messages on sex. At church, they hear, "Wait until marriage," while the rest of the world loudly asks, "Why wait?" Even though they know deep down what they should do, heart and hormones challenge the head.

A sex education measure that Republicans asserted was anti-local control and would promote birth control rather than abstinence-only cleared the Illinois Senate on a nearly party-line vote Wednesday.

While many of America's classrooms remain criminally regressive when it comes to their sexual education policies, today Illinois has helped put a kibosh on some of that bullshit by stepping slightly into the 21st Century.

The antis in this week's vote think our sex lives are their business - yet Boris Johnson seems to escape without censure I am of the view that nobody's sex life is of concern to anybody else.

By Jamey Dunn Legislation that would end abstinence-only sex education in the state's public schools is headed to Gov.

The repercussions of the countryA's economic crisis appear to have had a negative impact on male sexuality with a 47 percent increase in A'violent behaviorA' by men toward their sexual partners over the past year and a 34 percent drop in the frequency of sex, according to a new study.

Finally , someone has come up with a fun and creative way to promote condom use without yelling and throwing scary statistics at the children.

Sex and relationships education should be compulsory in secondary schools as ministers are failing to take action to protect children and women, a damning report has claimed.

Want healing and satisfaction after a breakup? Then get in bed with a friend - just be sure to keep it casual.

A proposal that revamps sex education in Illinois public schools to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases has cleared the state Senate.

Asks the conservative Republican commentator in D.C. : "The left, so called 'pro-choice' activists, have an interesting concept of a culture of responsibility.