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Sound of Silver — Do I Really Want To Be Young?

It has been a year or two since I have heard the song “Sound of Sil­ver” by LCD Soundsys­tem. I was reminded of it when I was lis­ten­ing to the show “Fresh Air” on NPR. Terry Gross was inter­view­ing James … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sex, Procreation, Recreation, Bonding

The Advi­sory Com­mit­tee for Repro­duc­tive Health Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion voted unan­i­mously recently to rec­om­mend approval of an emer­gency con­tra­cep­tive for use up to five days after sex. Accord­ing to CNN: The pill is intended for women who … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Doesn’t the Government Do Something?

Why doesn’t the gov­ern­ment do some­thing to stop the oil leak?” “Why doesn’t the gov­ern­ment do some­thing to clean up the oil spill?” “Why did the gov­ern­ment not watch BP closer and stop the prob­lem before it hap­pened?” Why not? Because the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Just What I Need — More Radiation

Dur­ing my lunch break, I was lis­ten­ing to NPR (I had to make up for lis­ten­ing to the less-than socially accept­able talk show while dri­ving in to work this morn­ing) and heard a story that raised ques­tions about the safety … Con­tinue read­ing

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Guilt by Association

Con­fes­sion; from time to time while dri­ving to work, espe­cially if NPR is run­ning a story I am not par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in or is in the mid­dle of one of their “beg fests”, I will switch the radio to one … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sex Education: Beyond NO Agreement! Revisited

Please note: This is a com­bined post by Is Still Here of Sur­viv­ing Sur­vival and The Cura­tor of the Sex­hi­bi­tion A research study regard­ing the pos­i­tive mer­its of “abstinence-only” sex edu­ca­tion has been bogged down in blogged down mis­re­port­ing so … Con­tinue read­ing

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First No Condom, Now Only Penile-Vaginal Intercourse?

The 03 August 2009 edi­tion of the Scots­man stated, “Pro­fes­sor Stu­art Brody con­cludes that unpro­tected het­ero­sex­ual sex can sig­nif­i­cantly boost men and women’s men­tal well­be­ing. Con­versely, Mr. Brody claims that het­ero­sex­ual sex with a con­dom is asso­ci­ated with poorer men­tal … Con­tinue read­ing

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