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sex education stories: 30 news summaries

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 Scientists Warn Doctors
 of Syphilis Comeback 

Cases are on the rise, doctors not spotting the symptoms

Mar 18, 08 4:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health researchers have warned that syphilis is making a comeback, and doctors may not be recognizing the symptoms. Developed countries came closing to wiping out the disease in the '90s, Reuters reports, but infection rates in the US went up last year for the seventh year in a row. A... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • public health • epidemic • sex education • syphilis • STD • safe sex

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

Paris Tweens Get Their SexyEdBack

Frank exhibit touches on everything from how to kiss to icky feelings

Feb 19, 08 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Worried that the French approach to sex education isn't very, well, French, a new exhibit in a Paris science museum is teaching kids what happens when the lights go out in the City of Lights. The museum exposes the anatomical, biological, and mushy sentimental mysteries of sex through exhibits that... More »

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France • sex • museums • sex education • Paris • City of Lights

Abstinence Ed. Isn't Slowing Teen Sex

Celibacy-only programs have little 'positive impact,' study argues

Nov 7, 07 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Abstinence-only sex-education courses funded by the federal government are no match for teenage libido, according to a new study from a non-partisan group seeking to reduce teen pregnancy. The study found such programs had less “positive impact” than more comprehensive curricula, the AP reports, and dismissed as myth the... More »

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pregnancy • sex education • abstinence education • safe sex • abstinence • teenager

Maine Middle School Offers Preteens the Pill

Parents OK health center visits, but care is confidential

Oct 18, 07 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Portland, Maine, middle school stirred controversy last night when its board voted 5-2 to make birth control pills and patches available for its pupils, typically between 11 and 13 years old. The move was prompted by the school nurse's claim that five of 134 students treated by the health... More »

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contraception • sex education • birth control • birth control pill • Portland, Maine

Falling Teen
Sex Rates Stall

Experts worry plateau could signal start of increased activity and more teen pregnancies

Jul 24, 07 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - After steadily dropping for a decade, the US teenage sex rate leveled off in 2001 and has stalled there since, according to a government study. What caused the halt in the trend is unclear, but it coincides with the beginning of increased funding for abstinence-only sex education and may reflect... More »

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pregnancy • sex • sex education • abstinence education • abstinence • teenager

States Say No
to Abstinence Programs

Schools bail on sexless sex ed, even as more teens delay sex

Jul 18, 07 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - School sex education programs that concentrate on abstinence are under threat despite years of federal funding for organizations like Virginity Rules, the New York Times reports. Eleven states have rejected abstinence education in the last year and Congress cut program funding for the first time since 2001. A study of... More »

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Planned Parenthood • sex education • Virginity Rules • abstinence education • abstinence

Teens Having Safer Sex, Fewer Babies

Record-low birth rate part of positive trends in kids' health

Jul 13, 07 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - High school students are having less sex than kids in the past, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate is at an all-time low, and the proportion of teens completing high school is up. A new federal report looks at the condition of Americans under 18 and finds... More »

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pregnancy • sexual health • sex education • condom • sexuality • reading • teenager

Ex-Surgeon General Alleges Censorship

Former top doc says administration plays politics with science

Jul 10, 07 7:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration "did not want to hear the science" on subjects such as stem-cell research and abstinence-only sex ed, the ex-surgeon general says, and he was muzzled and marginalized when he tried "to be the doctor of the nation—not the doctor of a political party."... More »

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stem cell research • public health • sex education • Richard Carmona • Surgeon General • George W. Bush

Condom-Hating Health Official Steps Down

Bush's top family planning official resigns after legal action against him

Mar 30, 07 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bush's top family planning official resigned unexpectedly yesterday, on the heels of a legal action against him in Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports. The lawsuit  initiated by Medicaid  targets Dr. Eric Keroack's private practice in Marblehead. Abortion rights groups protested his appointment five months ago, claiming he opposed birth control... More »

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health care • abortion • contraception • health • cervical cancer • Medicaid • sex education • Eric Keroack • birth control • Department of Health • condom

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