This May, we are celebrating #SexEdforAll Month to bring awareness to the fact that everyone—especially teens like us—should have access to quality sex education! For many years, research has shown that teens, parents and educators agree that sex…
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I can tell you at any given time how many hours are left until Thanksgiving break. But before I focus on the break, perhaps I should think about the point of the holiday and acknowledge what I’m grateful for! One […]
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While porn might be easy to find, it shouldn’t replace sex education. This is something Miles “Pudge” Halter learns the hard way in Hulu’s adaptation of John Greens’ novel Looking for Alaska. Pudge and his date, Lara, refer to a […]
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In Hulu’s Looking for Alaska (based on the John Green novel of the same name), there is—as in most teen shows and movies—an emphasis on getting laid. In the first episode, Alaska tells Pudge, “I’ll get you laid,” as if […]
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Hulu’s television adaptation of John Green’s Looking for Alaska follows the wacky hijinks and coming-of-age struggles of high school student Miles “Pudge” Halter and his friends. The show portrays Miles’ first experiences with dating and…
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Could summer have gone by any quicker? Yep, it’s time to go back to school, and we all know what that means: shopping for books and clothes, signing up for courses and making sure that all of the boxes are […]
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“New name, same game: SHAME.” That’s just one of the rallying cries for the #SRAisAbstinenceOnly campaign, which is challenging funding and support for sexual risk avoidance (SRA) programs. SRA is a new name for an old concept: abstinence-only…
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“Don’t you know that masturbation causes hair loss?” my friend says, as he pulls up an article online. “Look, it says that masturbation increases testosterone in the body, which creates DHT, a hormone that leads to male pattern baldness!”…
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