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micdotcom: An abstinence-focused sex education class in East Lansing, Michigan recently received a shock when one student’s sex-positive mother sat in on the proceedings — and live-tweeted them. Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics...

When Alice Dreger’s son invited her to his abstinence-focused sex education class, she couldn’t help but live tweet the experience. Check out her full tweet stream here.

As children get older, the question of how much educators should stress abstinence comes into play. Photo by Michelle Love. President Obama’s decision earlier this year to cut funding for “abstinence-before-marriage” education programs from the 201...

What to include in sex education classes (or whether to have them at all) has been at the center of a heated debate for decades. There isn’t any real standard for sex education nationwide, but there’s data on what’s being done and what, of that, works...

We do not need to tell you that abstinence-based sex education — or no sex education at all — does not work, mostly because you are all people that (1) are not teenagers and (2) can’t keep it in your pants anyway. In past years, the...