Malaysia considers teaching sex to graduates

Malaysia's government is worried that high school graduates may not know enough about sex.

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Some Kan. Schools Call for Sex-Ed Consent

School districts in Kansas must get parents' written permission before teaching their children sex education, the state Board of Education decided Wednesday.

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Between gay marriage, decriminalized abortion and all that pornography on TV, you'd think that the Spanish would be impossible to shock.

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Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has sparked a bit of a rumpus by issuing an educational leaflet entitled Pleasure is in your hands, detailing the best way to achieve solo satisfaction.

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It is a subject that would make most governments blush, but officials in the Spanish region of Extremadura have launched a major programme to encourage what could be described as a more hands-on approach to sexuality.

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Take a look at this lede from a OneNewsNow article on abstinence-only sex education: An abstinence advocate says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control shows that abstinence education is delaying sex among teens.

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WASHINGTON - Sex education programs that encourage teenagers to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their chances of getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease cut risky sexual behavior, increase condom use, and lower the chances of getting the AIDS vi …

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Boy aged just 13 is set to become a father. Pregnancies among girls under 16 – below the age of consent – are also at their highest since 1998. The Government has tried to cut teenage pregnancies by handing out free contraceptives and expanding sex education.

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This is an amussing, but very serious, look at the life of the unborn, or fetuses according to some. Not only does it provide a course in sex education, it also raises some very serious moral issues.

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On the House floor Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that the health insurance reform package currently being debated by Congress would set up "sex clinics" in schools where students "taken away" to have abortions.

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Last Halloween, Gigi Durham opened her front door to find a five-year-old girl standing on the doorstep. The child was wearing a boob tube, gauze miniskirt, platform heels and glitter eye-shadow. "I'm a Bratz!" she declared.

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Brief blog post points out way that many health education programs teach people about their own anatomy but not about other people's anatomies; includes links to online sources of reproductive anatomy lessons.

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Former schoolteacher Deborah Parish (we're unsure on the spelling, since we got her name from the video), wanted to impress upon the agency that you can teach kids to get sexy without taking their clothes off, a proposition for which the fact that she had gone all her 56 years wi …

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With a bombardment of sexually-charged messages in pop culture, some parents find it difficult — and even awkward — having a discussion youngsters about sex, even with the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

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Article about, with links to, the UNESCO International Guidelines on Sexuality Education "an evidence informed and rights based framework to give children and young people access to the knowledge and skills they need in their personal, social and sexual lives." The final version …

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Terrence Higgins Trust has been awarded £432,000 by the Big Lottery Fund's Young People's Fund 2 programme to offer sexual health counselling, mentoring support and volunteering opportunities for 10 - 18 year olds in London.

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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Mexico responds to A.I.D.S. epidemic

A.I.D.S. is on the rise. With no cure on the horizon and very limited access to programs and medication, Mexico is facing a crisis.

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To hear the ex-hippies and Summer of Love enthusiasts tell it, the spring and summer of 1967 in San Francisco changed everything, especially sex. The real story is more complex.

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The American Civil Liberties Union said it wants the Department of Human Services held accountable for spending taxpayer dollars on an abstinence summit.

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a new Centre for Disease Control and Prevention report introduces its finding that rates of teen pregnancy and STDs are, after more than a decade of decline, once again on the rise. This news is, of course, not really news at all.

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I guess we are going to see teen pregnancy and STDs continue to rise until we get frank, factual sex ed re-introduced into our schools.

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Proper condom use, sex positions and same-sex relationships are all part of the curriculum for 14-year-old students in Swedish high schools.

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This article should be in major news and on major news stations, but it is swept under the carpet by main stream media who favor the Obama administration even though this story exposes the danger and careless push for same sex sexual orientation in U.S.

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excerpt: ""Liberals pretend to be the advocates for science.

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Bristol Palin's Abstinence Tour From A Sex Educator's Point of View

I have been following the coverage of Bristol Palin's "Abstinence Tour." I don't feel that her personal experiences will help other teens make decisions about having sex or not, even if she is living proof of what an accidental pregnancy can do to a teen's life.

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Many young people know that sexual harassment is bad, but they don't know what it really is, they don't know why it is a problem, and they don't know what to do about it when they do see it.

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Teen pregnancy is on the rise again and is caused by inexperience in life and sex education. Teaching small children about sex does not help them, for they lack the capacity to understand. Reputations are formed in early adulthood and may follow one all of their lives.

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