[This post written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen]
We live in a world where more and more people are accepting of alternative lifestyles. Yet students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender still report very similar amounts of harassment and negative effects in school as they did in 1999. Recently, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education [...]
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The 2007 GLSEN National School Climate Survey
Orgasms
Recently I wrote about first masturbation experiences - and how little we really know about how and when people start masturbating. This has naturally led me to thinking about first orgasms, and by extention I’ve been reading about orgasms in general.
But as with first masturbation experiences, I really have more questions about first orgasms than [...]
Research on Masturbation
I have three questions to answer:
Typical age of masturbation onset (by gender).
Typical age of orgasm/ejaculatory onset (by gender).
Typical age of highest masturbation frequency (by gender).
So what’s up with the relative lack of research on this topic? (Yes, that was a rhetorical question, for you smart-alecks in the peanut gallery.) Here’s what I’ve [...]
Guttmacher Instutite Research on Adolescent Sexuality Trends Analyzed by Me!
Yesterday’s big news was the new Guttmacher Institute study that suggests teenagers are not using oral sex as a way to stay “technically still a virgin.” Rather, it says that teenagers who are engaging in oral sex are by-and-large also engaging in vaginal intercourse.
I must admit - I am rather surprised by this finding. [...]
What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know, by Rev. Debra Haffner
Take a deep breath, folks, because I’m about to tell you about a book that is not going to shock or amaze you with the horrors of raising children or teenagers in today’s world. Rather, I am going to tell you about a book that endeavors to calm the frenzy that the media has [...]
4parents.gov
(Written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen.)
My guest blog for this month will be about 4parents.gov. I found this website through a commercial (they are all on their site) and I must say, it kind of disturbed me. On the about us page, they said this:
“4Parents.gov is part of a national public education campaign to provide parents [...]
What a boy wants
Conventional wisdom suggests that teenage boys have one thing on their minds. And it’s not history class. Statistics that support this theory abound: Teenage boys have testosterone surges multiple times a day. Teenage boys think about sex an average of every 28 seconds. The theories go on.
A study was recently [...]
More teenagers giving birth! Ack! Run around like a chicken with your head cut off! Ack!
So the liberal blog-o-sphere is simply agog with the CDC announcement that the adolescent birth rate has risen for the first time in fourteen years (it had been steadily falling). Bush’s abstinence-only “sex education” policy has been taken to the cleaners with this announcement. Here’s a quote from the CDC announcement that [...]
England’s got it right
There are many very cool resources about sex and sexuality for teenagers in the UK. I’ve spent some time this week surfing through them, and thought some of you might be interested as well. (I have a fair number of readers from England, but the Internet sides of these organizations are clearly available [...]
Does sex make you better behaved?
A new study by University of Virginia researchers suggests that early sexual activity (14 - 15 years old) may by associated with lower levels of delinquent behavior in later adolescence. The researchers are defining delinquent behavior as drug us, criminality, antisocial behavior, and emotional problems.
Now, this really goes against most of what most people [...]
