The last couple of days it seems that teenage pregnancy has been on the media’s brain. In fact the movie based on the “pregnancy pact” where a group of female teenagers made a pact to all get pregnant at the same time so they could raise their children together…
Has your school counselor ever awkwardly cornered you in the hallway to give you some unnecessary and unwanted advice on using rubbers? Ever have an ill-advised cousin tell you the way to prevent pregnancy is by standing on your head while simultaneously chugging a Mountain Dew? If so, you…
I have said this before and I will say it again. I am always amazed at the different research projects that get grants from this foundation or that government agency. Oh, sure, I am 100% behind those initiatives that are working around the clock to create an HIV vaccine…
Naturally, on this site, we often report on those campaigns that have condoms as their main focus, specifically those initiatives that promote the increased and consistent use of condoms to help prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. However, we do not often hear the other side of the…
Just today, I was talking to some of my work colleagues about my best friend Sarah who is semi-crunchy. By that, I mean she is one of those hippies (and I say hippy very lovingly considering I lived in Austin, TX for 6 years and loved every moment of…
At home watching the news, I caught a moving headline about a new law that took effect this month in my home state of Texas which calls for testing pregnant women in their third trimester for the virus that causes AIDS . As I reminisced on my two pregnancies,…
Along with others like Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, Stephen Colbert had a field day when it was announced that Tiger Woods had been regularly unfaithful to his wife. On his show, he remarked, “Tiger always gives 110 percent. That is why he gave 100 percent to his wife…
There are two things in life that I am pretty sure I will never be great at. Singing is one. I got kicked out of voice lessons in high school which shows you how horrible I was; the voice coach could have easily kept milking my mom for each…
About a week or two ago, I was catching up on my celebrity gossip on the Perez Hilton website when I saw a post saying that girls in the Washington D.C. area could legally be considered prostitutes if they carried more than 3 condoms on their being at any…
When we think of that old sex-avoidance excuse, “Honey, I am just too tired tonight,” we usually think of it as a sporadic excuse used here and there when we’re simply not in the mood. Well, for the British that excuse has been found to be commonplace. A recent…