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NEWS ABOUT: premarital sex

premarital sex stories: 6 news summaries

Death Penalty for Virginity- Faking Kit:
Egypt Scholar

Said to spread vice, violate Islamic law

Sep 29, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Egyptian scholar wants the death penalty for anyone importing a device that helps women fake virginity—claiming it violates Islamic law by spreading perversion in society. The gadget releases a liquid that looks like blood, allowing a new bride to make it appear her hymen has been ruptured. The... More »

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women's health • Egypt • Islamic Sharia law • scholar • virginity • premarital sex • hymen • virginity-faking device

Abstinence Vows Don't Work: Study

Teens who pledge purity still do it, and they use protection less

Dec 29, 08 4:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Taking an abstinence pledge made teenagers no less likely to have sex before marriage but significantly less likely to use contraceptives when they did have sex, the Washington Post reports. “Previous studies would compare a mixture of apples and oranges,” said Janet Rosenbaum, the author of a new... More »

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contraception • study • sex • research • abstinence education • abstinence • premarital sex • condoms

 


 Premarital Sex, 
 Abortion on 
 Rise in Iran 

Marriage rates dip, despite Tehran's efforts

Dec 29, 08 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran’s Islamic law bans premarital sex and abortion, but an increasing number of Iranians are engaging in both, the Guardian reports. More than a quarter of men aged 19 to 29 had premarital sex, and 13% of those situations resulted in the termination of an unwanted pregnancy, a state... More »

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Iran • education • abortion • feminism • marriage • Islamic law • premarital sex

OPINION

 Hookups Won't
 Ruin Her Life

Flings help today's young women
grow and learn

Aug 5, 08 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - New books are urging girls in the "hookup generation" to stay chaste, but Tracy Clark-Flory trumpets the virtues of casual sex in Salon. While abstinence authors rate women as whores or angels, the 24-year-old argues that hookups help women vet partners physically and emotionally. Today's females take a feminist... More »

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feminism • relationship • abstinence • premarital sex • opinion

 Sex Please, We're Drunk 

Hooking up is the aim of booze and alcohol binging: study

May 11, 08 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Young people intentionally binge on booze and drugs to improve their sex lives, according to new research. A third of European men under the age of 36 and a quarter of women said they drank to increase their chance of sex—and were more likely to engage in unsafe sex... More »

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drugs • alcohol • alcohol abuse • safe sex • premarital sex • alcohol consumption

China Strips Down Sexual Mores

Sex education hasn't caught up

Mar 3, 08 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - After years of Maoist repression, during which sex was considered bourgeois and hand-holding was a major taboo, Beijing is alive with seedy clubs and no-tell motels catering to one-night stands. Most Chinese—60% to 70%—have indulged in premarital sex, compared with just 15% in 1989. But lingering disapproval has... More »

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China • sex • sex education • safe sex • premarital sex • Maoism

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