**Trigger Warning** In regards to the post “Jesus Was Such a Cockblocker” Let me start by saying I apologize if some of you found the language used in it triggering. I think there was an attempt to use humor to lighten a discussion of a difficult story and issues, and that humor didn’t translate well. [...]
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**Trigger Warning** I grew up in the 1980s in a Jewish-Unitarian household in the middle of Manhattan. To say that I was not immediately exposed to strict Christianity/Catholicism would be an understatement. It wasn’t until I was in college that I actually met anyone who had been raised evangelical, or talked about saving their virginity [...]
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Working at Planned Parenthood, I tend to get a lot of questions about sex and sexual health. I’ve met people at parties and had them tell me about their crabs. I’ve had folks I just met at a bar, only half-jokingly, ask about a rash they had in their nether-regions. And I’ve become the resident [...]
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Posted in Guest Blogging, Sex | Tagged clueless, Dating, losing your virginity, period, planned parenthood, questions, Sex, sex education, tampons, virginity |
Not a story per se, but Miriam over at Feministing has a great post about being queer and the concept of virginity.
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To everyone who’s been leaving their stories in the comments, thank you so much. They’re all so different — some are heartbreaking, some are funny, some are blase, and all are definitely worth the read. I know a lot of you have been talking about how inaccurate the idea of virginity is, and how it [...]
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Let me start by saying I LOVE all the comments that these posts have been getting, and thank you to everyone that has been sharing their stories so far. Particularly, on my last post, Kim brought up an issue with the idea of virginity itself, and just why we make it so damn precious. And [...]
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Once a friend of mine got her hands on a whole library of sex ed tapes from around the world, and held a viewing party at her house. There were two: the first, an abstinence-happy 1980s piece of work (featuring one of the Coreys!) that warned you were like a delicate flower, and each time [...]
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Posted in Education, Sex | Tagged "THE TALK", 1980s, birds and bees, losing your virginity, Netherlands, saying no, Sex, sex educatio, stories, Videos, virginity, Virgins |
So MAYBE it’s just because I work for Planned Parenthood, or maybe it’s just because I’ve now learned my open and overly forthcoming parents were a rarity, but I think the ways we learn about sex and the way we first experience/define sex are fascinating. For instance – my mom was of a generation where [...]
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I know the “second virginity” craze is nothing new, but the whole thing strikes me as ridiculous and sad enough to merit comment. Virginity fetishism is at heart about the idea that women are objects, and that those objects become less valuable when they’ve been “used” by someone else. A shiny new hymen on your [...]
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Posted in Are you serious?, Culture Of Life, Gender, Health, Misogyny, Radical Right-Wingers, Sex, Stupidity | Tagged Gender, religious right, Sex, virginity |
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