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Letter-writing campaign calls abstinence, "dangerous." The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is behind a "Not in My State" letter-writing campaign attacking abstinence-only education. The letters will ask school superintendents nationwide to use condom-based curricula instead. A sample letter on the ACLU's Web site reads: "Research shows that these curricula, which deny young people crucial information they need to prevent pregnancy and protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, are ineffective and dangerous. To ensure the health of young people throughout Missouri, we ask your assistance in keeping these unsafe programs out of our schools." Louise Melling, director of the ACLU Reproductive...

Actors having real sex in art-house movies. Erstwhile child star Lindsay Lohan appearing barely clad on the cover of her new album. Teenage girls strolling down Main Street USA attired in "Porn Star" T-shirts. A bikini-wearing Jessica Simpson bumping and grinding in the music video for "These Boots Are Made for Walkin.'" College-age women flashing for the "Girls Gone Wild" video series with nonchalant exhibitionism. Not too long ago, pornography was a furtive profession, its products created and consumed in the shadows. But it has steadily elbowed its way into the limelight, with an impact that can be measured not...

OTTAWA, February 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Naked Guy,” “Dog Balls,” and “Ball Waxing,” are archived sample clips of sexual programming available from Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster, the CBC.  A CBC television program called Nerve, which formerly aired after school at 5:30pm Mondays, is described by blogger Joel Johannesen as a means to promote as normal such things as transsexualism, homosexual lifestyles, sado-masochism, same-sex “marriage” and a pre-occupation with anything sexual.On line archives of the show highlight some of the bizarre examples of the former program.  Two shows in particular are sexual kinkiness involving what Johannesen estimates are teen males.  One is a...

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- A school board member wants to tighten control over what student journalists write after Columbus North High School's newspaper published articles about oral sex. The proposal by Bartholomew County School Board member Russell Barnard would require all material to be approved by the newspaper's sponsor, the high school principal and the district superintendent before it is published. "The administration needs to have control of what's published with the name of the school appearing on it," Barnard told The Republic for a story published Friday. "Right now it looks like the children are running the school and can...

The chairwoman of a new advisory committee on sex education for Montgomery County public schools said her panel will not hold substantive meetings until school officials devise a curriculum that can be reviewed. The schools "have said what our job is, and that is to advise. Once there is a curriculum, we can do that," said Carol Plotsky, medical staff president at Shady Grove Hospital and advisory committee chairwoman. Dr. Plotsky's 15-member panel was scheduled to meet last night. The school system plans to deliver a new curriculum to the committee in March. Last year, the previous 27-member committee created...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish drama student was fined 2,400 crowns on Wednesday for reading pornographic stories to a group of six-year-olds as part of a theater project on children's sexuality. A Stockholm court ruled that the stories the man had read out were deeply pornographic and completely inappropriate for the age group, newspaper Dagens Nyheter said on its Web site. It said the stories were about children having oral sex with each other. The man's lawyer told Swedish radio that he would appeal against the verdict as he had not meant the stories to be seen as pornographic and...

After publicity sparked by a WND story, a university canceled a student group's "National Outdoor Intercourse Day" and related "Pornfest" this year. One year ago, Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., held its 11th annual "celebration" with offerings such as condom hunts, a masturbation information table and "Pornfest," a showing of award-winning pornographic films along with discussion sessions. Brochures were distributed to inform students of the "repercussions of sex outdoors," and a guest lecturer from a "sex-positive" community center in Seattle spoke on dispelling the "myths" surrounding polyamory – having sexual relationships with more than one person at a time....

<p>It's "Back To School" time again, and here's the first pop quiz. No, it's not for the kids. It's for parents, and they have to answer only one question: Do you know what your children are learning in sex-education classes?</p>

Watching a Great Paper Dive Into Pedophilia Chic     5/1/2003By Robert KnightCommentary When I was a news editor at the Los Angeles Times during the ’80s, I thought I had seen the outer limits of liberal moral meltdown. On issue after issue, most staff members took the politically correct line, from abortion to welfare, gun control, tax increases, porn “censorship” and “gay” rights. But the paper has now outdone itself, even by its own liberal standards. By awarding a Los Angeles Times Book Prize to the odious Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, by Judith Levine, the Times...