Here we go again. Planned Parenthood has lost funding in SoCal

Here we go again. The Orange County Board of Supervisors has suspended Planned Parenthood’s funding, terminating a contract that PP had to provide health and sex education for thousands of teens because they also provide abortions.

Never mind the fact that this funding was for education programs and none of it was ever spent on abortion service. Never mind the fact that accurate, comprehensive sex education actually reduces the rate of teen pregnancy (and therefore, reduces the abortion rate). And never mind that Planned Parenthood has years of experience providing this education- experience that a newer organization simply can’t match. None of that counts because an ideology about abortion is more important than actually doing something about it.

It’s enough to make me scream. Really.

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03.12.09 | %% Category: resources, sexual politics | Leave a comment

same view, different lenses

In the articles and blogs that I’ve read about porn, every so often, someone talks about the “cum shot“. For the most part, I see people talking about it as objectification of women, a way to humiliate the recipient (generally, this is an argument about humiliation of women since gay porn is consistently left out of that perspective), or proof that “actual sex” took place (since some people believe that sex = orgasm = ejaculation).

But here’s another way that you could look at it: sex is risky. That’s why sex educators talk about “safer sex” rather than “safe sex.” It’s all about risk management. I’ll acknowledge that if you want to be 100% safe, then you need to not have sex; the abstinence-only folks

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11.17.08 | %% Category: pornography, sexual health | Leave a comment
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