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Archive for the 'Sex' Category
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
by Mike
I have to admit that the Mark Sanford sex scandal has captured my attention. Usually I don’t care about these things (John Ensign, John Edwards, David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton, etc.) except to bemoan the tragedy of gifted and skilled political voices who threw it all away. To paraphrase what Dee [...]
Posted in Sex, The Media, U.S. Politics | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
by Mike
My wife just sent me a fascinating article on Slate that I thought I would share with you. Some geneticists recently completed a study on how genes for homosexuality could continue to exist given that homosexual men tend not to procreate. They tested a number of theories against the data, and discovered that [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, Sex | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
by Mike
An interesting off-shoot of the Spitzer case seems to be a revival in the debate about prostitution. In the New York Times Opinion Page today, for instance, you can find three different articles about prostitution: one written by the authors of two sex books on sex trafficking who argue that prostitutes are naturally victims [...]
Posted in Poverty, Sex, Social Security and Welfare | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
by Mike
It’s a headline designed to scare: Study Finds 1 in 4 US Teens Has A STD. And it’s true, at least according to a recent federal study, which included a survey about adolescent women’s sexual practices and clinical testing. The article then goes on to describe “shocked” health experts, advocates stressing that more [...]
Posted in Education, Sex | No Comments »
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