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tw: rape aplogogy, victim blaming, slut shaming.
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GROWING UP IS REALIZING:
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YES!!
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO PRETEND TO LIKE THINGS IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM!!
- AND YOU CERTAINLY DON’T...
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President Obama and his teen mom.
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May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, which basically means it’s the...
“All the women living with HIV in my organization have been subjected to various forms of violence before and after diagnosis, from sexual violence, psychological, economic to institutional violence.”
This was one testimonial from a consultation conducted by the Athena Network and the…
In going through things while packing for a move, I found some of my doodles from high school in which I chronicled my various adventures, and thought our readers might get a giggle out of my feelings about condoms circa 1986.
In a word, then, as I still do now, I thought condoms were SPARKLY TREASURE. :) - HC
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Schools that institute student drug testing programs are likely to experience a rise in students’ consumption of ‘hard’ drugs, according to observational trial data published this week in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
If you’ve had the experience of being a teenage boy, you know that your body wasn’t particularly shy about revealing its sexual attractions. So, there I was with undeniable evidence I was attracted to men and stuck with the belief I was disgusting and broken. An abomination.
I’m happy to report, like so many members of the LGBT community, I stopped believing I was broken. I’m not sure what mental processes occurred to un-brainwash myself, but they seem to have occurred. There are hints as to what may have happened. Dr. Wim De Neys of Leuven University, Belgium, discovered that part of the frontal lobe activates when we realize stereotypes aren’t true and a separate part of the frontal lobe activates in order to override the stereotype (this second part doesn’t always occur).
So, it might be that the evidence provided by my body was strong enough to finally talk my brain out of its moral disgust. Or maybe it was the years of experience living as a gay man that did the job. I don’t know. I do know it was incredibly painful and difficult and I’m glad it happened.
Read it all here.
(Note from Heather: Phil and I were once apartment-mates. So great to see this from him! Yay, Phil!)
Happy #IDAHO! Or #IDAHOT. Or #IDAHOBIT.
Have a look at our blog on ensuring people of ALL (or no) genders and sexualities are able to access relevant, evidence-based resources on reproductive health.
Grade 8 students in Nunavut can now learn about sexual health with the help of a comic book, Eva Aariak, Nunavut’s premier and education minister said this week in the Nunavut legislature.
