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Common Claims: Polanski and Rape in Early America

In September 2009 director Roman Polanski was detained in Switzerland for extradition to the United States. He was to face a sexual assault-related conviction, from which he’d run away three decades earlier. A plethora of news reports followed. Movie stars, politicians, legal experts, bloggers, and other commentators took sides.

En cuanto a sexualidad, las hijas saben más que mamá

Aunque exista una relación de confianza entre madre e hija, en materia de sexo las hijas adolescentes saben más de lo que mamá imagina

Internet: la red de los encuentros sexuales

¿Quién no ha entrado a un chat para conocer a alguien o de manera fortuita, mirando el messenger de un amigo, conoces a alguien sin rostro ni nombre y menos un juicio al conocerte? Todos quienes hemos navegado en la red

Sexuality and Mourning in American Catholicism

It's not exactly breaking news that religious groups in the United States get het up over sex and gender. If it's not abortion, it's abstinence education, or stem-cell research, or gay marriage that gets them going. And while church people carry these concerns into the pubic square, they also fight about them with one another, and sometimes

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Thanks for recognizing the Cool Aunt in your life. We know your message to them will make their day. Want to do a little more? Ask your friends on Facebook to send a thanks to their Cool Aunts, too.Here are a few other things you can do to stay involved:

Giving Thanks for Cool Aunts

Remember your Cool Aunt? S/he was the grown-up--friend, uncle, parent--who gave you the real information you needed about sex. Embarrassed or not, your Cool Aunt was willing to take on all kinds of topics. From the (literal) ins and outs of the physical stuff, to navigating emotional questions, and even--gasp--pleasure.

Zoot Suits hacen a el Hombre- y a la Mujer

El 11 de Junio de 1943, en medio de las revueltas “Zoot Suit”, el Los Ángeles Times reporto que tres pandilleras “Zoot Suit” habían atacado a la señorita Betty Morgan, una mesera, cerca del túnel de la Calle Tres en el centro de Los Ángeles.

Call to End Ab-Only Sex Ed

Two weeks ago, the Senate Finance Committee passed an amendment from Senator Orrin Hatch to reinstate $50 million per year to the failed Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program. The amendment passed by just one vote, 12–11. Today, sex ed supporters from around the country are uniting to call in to the Senate and say no to ab-only,

Confusion about Religion & Abortion Rights

Statistics and surveys can be useful, but they can also be misconstrued and lead to incorrect conclusions. A new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is a case in point. A lot of news stories have been published about the study, stating that support for access to legal abortion is weakening among mainline Protestants...

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