Sex Education

If there's an upside to the government's failure to promote legitimate sex education, it's been the convergent rise of the local sex shop and the university seminar as two venues for frank and meaningful discussion.

For anyone who isn't a straight man, sexual education and the media can get sexuality wrong. Fan fiction is helping change that.

Contraception works, especially when it's free. Abstinence, not so much.

Sex ed through the ages.

Maybe it's not politically feasible, but most kids will need sexual knowledge more than Shakespearean verse to be functioning adults. Here's a sample curriculum.

One mother makes up for the gaps in sex education.

There are better ways to protect against the transmission of STDs, and other common sense arguments against some of the most common reasons parents give for circumcising their children.