So there is a lot I want to write about today - The Education of Shelby Knox, which I saw last night and heard Shelby speak afterwards, the Miley Cyrus debacle, the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) who are working on the FLDS case, and the hearings on the effectiveness of abstinence-only-until-marriage “sex education” to [...]
Archives for April, 2008
The Education of Shelby Knox
I am going to see a film today called The Education of Shelby Knox. I’m looking forward to it - it looks like a great movie - but it’s particularly exciting because Shelby Knox herself will actually be there! Here’s a short description from IMDB:
A 15-year-old girl’s transformation from conservative Southern Baptist to liberal Christian [...]
How to carry a condom the right way
The Dinah Project recently had a post about how to carry a condom, and ended the post with a good argument for why girls should carry their own condoms. It’s a good post. Straightforward, interesting, and educational. You should forward it on to the teenagers you know, so they’ll be one step [...]
Grandparents talking about sex
When I was about 19, I had the following conversation with my grandfather (GF) and great-grandmother (GG) about my same-age cousin:
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GG: Well, your cousin just moved in with her boyfriend.
Me: Oh, that’s nice! Good for her.
GF: Yes. She’s told us that she is sleeping in her own bedroom and he is sleeping in his [...]
And today, on a lighter note…
After Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, I am ready for something on a lighter note. I recently ran across a fun comic called the Invisible Life of Poet by Christopher Wilson. Below is the one I found first - although many of the others are worth browsing through too.
Jock Sturges: artist or pornographer?
As long as we’re talking about the line between appropriate and inappropriate adolescent sexuality, I thought I would bring up Jock Sturges. There is much controversy about Jock Sturges‘ photography. Mr. Sturges primarily takes pictures of nude adolescent girls on nude beaches.
The contention is whether or not Mr. Sturges’ pictures are nude art [...]
FLDS in Texas: How to assess?
Yesterday I put forward what I have been able to gather about the FLDS events in San Angelo, Texas. I asked for readers’ opinions about the events, and the comments were particularly impassioned and came from radically different points of view. I said I would write today about my opinions and interpretations of [...]
FLDS in Texas: What’s really going on?
I have been thinking, reading, and speaking with more people about the heartrendingly painful events taking place here in Texas. 416 children from a Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints (FLDS) ranch were taken into state custody just over two weeks ago. This point everyone agrees on. Almost everything else, it seems, [...]
The Big Conversation about…plastic surgery?
Ready to be appalled?
The big story that’s been making the rounds on lots of blogs this week is about a new book coming out that explains mom’s upcoming plastic surgery to kids in much the same way that other books explain going to the dentist or non-standard family organization. You can find more about [...]
Sex as a responsibility - part 4
Today is Part 4 in this series on sex as a privilege for which there are responsibilities, and I will focus on the social responsibilities. You can read the introduction in part 1, the physical responsibilities in part 2, and the relational responsibilities in part 3.
(As a side note, I am in the process [...]
