The Condom Assignment

By Anonymous

Earlier this week, in a class on adolescent life, my entire grade was given a homework assignment where we had to purchase condoms. Along with the assignment, we were also given a sheet to fill out. On the sheet, we had to write down the type of condom, price, where we bought them, and whether the sales clerk was male or female. In addition to this, we had to mention our level of comfort while purchasing the condoms, if we went alone or with a friend, and if we thought that condoms should be distributed to the high school. It was really interesting, because I saw that my friends had various levels of comfort doing the assignment, ranging from comfortable to very nervous. There were even some people who were so nervous about it that they made their friends do the assignment for them!

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Life

By Lucia

Things happen in life that we have to learn to overcome.
Sometimes people will use the words ‘I love you’ to take advantage of you.
Sometimes people will lie to you to protect you, but at the end the truth will come out & they will hurt you.
But after you been hurt so much, the pain becomes numb to you, you learn how to take all that pain & turn it into strength.

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No Cure For Gonorrhea?!

By Monica

Everyone must have heard of Gonorrhea as some kind of disease, but does everyone know what exactly the disease is, and how it has become an epidemic problem in the United States and potentially the entire world?

Gonorrhea is caused by a bacterium, Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, and can be passed from person to person through any type of sex. The infection can be spread by contact with the mouth, vagina, penis, or anus. Symptoms of gonorrhea usually appear within 2 – 5 days after the infection, however, in men, symptoms can take up to a month to appear and for majority of males they do not show any symptoms at all. Symptoms in women are very mild and nonspecific. When symptoms do become prominent for women they will mistake gonorrhea for another type of infection. [Check out the article in the New York Times for specific symptoms: http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/gonorrhea/overview.html]. If the infection is left untreated it will lead to: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) for women, Epididymitis for men, Arthritis, Meningitis, Infertility, and death. Read More »

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Because Obviously, Women Don’t Enjoy Sex

By Morgan

Men in porn are often regarded as sleazy, chauvinistic, and vain, but there is no denying that they enjoy their professions because, well, why the hell wouldn’t they? Most of their male fans are, on varying levels, jealous of their extremely raunchy, active, and public sex lives, as well as their incredibly gracious endowment (seriously, female pornstars don’t know whether they’re supposed to have sex with them or feed them peanuts). No remotely libidinous boy or man would ever feel sorry for a pornstar with a Y chromosome because, after all, they are living the male dream: having sex, and a lot of it.

Female pornstars, on the other hand; well, guys certainly get off to them, but does anybody regard them as lucky? Whenever they come up in conversation, they are predicted to have been abused or molested as children, perhaps forced into the profession by a loving-boyfriend-turned-pimp, and are almost always beheld with sorrow. Read More »

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Teen Night

By Theresa

Back Up Your Birth Control Teen Night was great! A night for teens to learn about the many different types of contraception out there and how effective they are.

On February 8, 2012, me, Sheniece, Tamara, and Brandon hosted the 2nd annual Back Up Your Birth Control Teen Night. The highlight of the event was giving the facts on EC (emergency contraception). I had a blast watching the groups create their commercials and performing them. We divided the groups into small groups, gave each group a method of contraception and they came up with amazing commercials. Getting into groups helped the teens to interact and share ideas. At the end of the event, teens left with great contraception facts that they can share with their peers. Coming soon … IUD Teen Night! Stay tuned.

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