There’s an article in the NYTimes this week about how an increasing number of teenagers are having plastic surgery. The article says that in 2006 teenagers made up 70% of all of the people who had this particular type of surgery. Astoundingly, it’s to “fix” a problem that is generally outgrown in the [...]
Archives for June, 2007
Pregnant teens
I know that in general it’s best for teenagers not to get pregnant. Their lives and the lives of their children are dramatically, and often negatively, effected by the young parental age. I know (and have done research and written about) the serious and wide-ranging negative physical, emotional, social, and psychological issues associated [...]
several interesting tid-bits
This, from the Dinah Project, is all about a new form of permanent birth control (although I’d just go ahead and call a goose a goose and use the word sterilization). If you’re thinking of getting your tubes tied, this might be a better option. A gynecologist inserts one very small spring into [...]
Genarlow Wilson
The big front page news this week is about Genarlow Wilson. If you haven’t heard about him, here’s a re-cap via Wilson’s wikipedia page:
Wilson v. State was a court case involving an appeal from the conviction of African-American man Genarlow Wilson, a former honors student and high school football player, involving the controversial sodomy [...]
Around the blog-o-sphere about democrats and abstinence-only sex ed
The Nation published a thorough and interesting article on the democrat’s decision to increase funding to abstinence-only sex education.
Then, during the last week or so, a number of blogs wrote about the same issue. Most of these blogs are political in nature, and so the focus is on trying to figure out why on [...]
More on building community
Jan Matney has a great post on her blog today, talking about the need to strengthen our communities. I am very blessed to live in a neighborhood that is much like the one she describes (and very different from the series of neighborhoods I lived in as a child). It’s a long post, [...]
Interview with Howard Schiffer
Yesterday I spoke with Howard Schiffer, author of How to be the Best Lover: A guide for teenage boys. I wrote about Howard’s book several days ago. Here is our conversation:
K: Can you explain why you wrote How to be the Best Lover: A guide for teenage boys?H: Because I felt like I [...]
Passion!
I am so frustrated by the liberal tendency towards thinking about things to do death and writing about thinking about things to death! We need to get some serious passion flowing through our veins, folks!
Comprehensive sex education teaches teenagers to value their body and their lover’s body for the rest of their lives. [...]
Sex is not depressing teenagers
So much of the pro-abstinence-only-until-marriage argument hinges on intercourse being bad for teenagers emotionally (you can go visit www.abstinence.net to learn more about abstinence-only education). But a recent study from the University of Minnesota says that, except for the very youngest girls (under 15) and boys (under 14) whose relationships fall apart immediately after [...]
I shop, therefore I am sexy. But not too sexy.
The Washington Post published an interactive set of articles about teenage girls’ shopping habits yesterday. It includes a number of articles, an interactive look at the mall where they went shopping, and pictures and video of the shopping experience. Throughout these articles and pictures, the authors and camera-pointers theoretically focused on the girls’ [...]
