Sexeducation

Celebrating Explicit Sex Ed for Teenagers

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Jan Hoffman: "The messages, rendered in teenspeak, can be funny and blunt: for Real Talk, a technology-driven H.I.V. prevention program run by the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, teenagers made a YouTube video, shouting a refrain from a rap song, 'Sport Dat Raincoat,' during which a girl carrying an umbrella is pelted with condoms."

Clay Waters

New York Times reporter Jan Hoffman celebrated explicit online sex education programs, including one run by abortion provider Planned Parenthood, in Saturday's edition: 'Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, Via Text.'

While heading to class last year, Stephanie Cisneros, a Denver-area high school junior, was arguing with a friend about ways that sexually transmitted diseases might be passed along.

NYT Sunday Mag: 'What if Our Kids Really Believed We Wanted Them to Have Great Sex?'

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:30:00 +0000

From explicit sex education, to praise for left-wing idol Elizabeth Warren, to another attack on fracking in Pennsylvania, the Sunday Magazine pushed liberalism from all angles this weekend.

Clay Waters

First it was the Sunday Review that traded in liberal news analysis for hard-left essays; will the New York Times Sunday Magazine follow in those left-ward steps? Three long stories from outside writers suggest yes.

New York City Mandates Sex Ed, Times Cheers

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:14:00 +0000

The newspaper said it's "long overdue" to require sex education for middle school and high school students, and offered no objection to Planned Parenthood teaching the lessons.

Tim Graham

On Wednesday's front page, the Times reported New York City's public middle schools and high schools are requiring sex education courses. The story by Fernanda Santos and Anna Phillips frankly acknowledge that blacks and Latinos are the targets of this mandate:

Times Pushes Condom Education, Quotes Planned Parenthood Twice Without Proper ID

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:38:00 +0000

While discounting the value of abstinence education, reporter Roni Caryn Rabin twice quoted Planned Parenthood without mentioning that it's a pro-abortion conglomerate which operates abortion clinics.

Clay Waters

Contributing writer Roni Caryn Rabin made Tuesday's Science section with an update on what Obama-care might mean, which in this case was welcome news for the Times: Less abstinence education, more condom promotion.

The Times didn't put it quite that bluntly in "New Spending for a Wider Range of Sex Education," hardly mentioning the C-word.

Abstinence, Biology and Bozo on 'View'

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Colleen Raezler

Bristol Palin's comments about abstinence sparked a lively discussion about sex education on the Feb. 17 broadcast of ABC's “The View.”

Palin, a new teenaged mom and daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, stated during her Feb. 16 interview with Fox's Greta van Susteren that sexual abstinence “is not realistic at all.”

No More Niceties: News Report Twice Labels McCain Claims Just Plain "False"

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:12:00 +0000

Reporter Michael Cooper's stylebook is bluntly pro-Obama.

Clay Waters

Tipping its hand, Saturday's Times contained yet another anti-McCain story which skipped normal journalistic niceties to bluntly label two McCain claims about Obama's health-care plan and sponsorship of sex-ed legislation as just plain "false," in Michael Cooper's"With a Month to Rally, McCain Hones His Attacks."

Rohter Rides to Obama's Defense on "Distorted...Discredited" Sex-Ed Charges

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:40:00 +0000

Reporter Larry Rohter's pro-Obama fact-checking: McCain's accusations "seriously distort the record....old and discredited accusations." As if Barack Obama and Joe Biden never make faulty accusations against John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Clay Waters

Reporter Larry Rohter put on his fact-checking hat for his Thursday "Check Point" feature, and once again defended Barack Obama from what he considered a "seriously" distorted attack, this time on sex education proposals for kindergarten students that Obama supported as an Illinois legislator. The headlinemade no room for niceties: "Ad On Sex Education Distorts Obama Policy."

Teen Sex Is Up? Blame Abstinence

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe

More teens are having sex and fewer are using condoms, a new study says. But whose fault is this setback in what had been an improving picture?

ABC's Good Morning America and National Public Radio put the blame on government-funded abstinence programs, which has become a media mantra, especially when funding is up for renewal, as it is now. (For more evidence of this, click here.)

Evangelists for Teen Sex

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

The concept of "sex education" has been a stomping ground for controversy for at least fifty years, probably as long as the apostles of "openness" have argued that parents in general do a terrible job of talking birds and bees with their offspring, and the public schools needed to expose children to a "frank" and "comprehensive" curriculum on How to Have Sex, complete with the pessimistic (or in their case, neutral) assumption that children will be irreversibly aggressive sexual beings.

Sex on a Plane: MTV Runs Ad Showering Airline Passengers with Condoms

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) has unveiled what it calls an “edgy” TV and radio campaign that “focuses on the importance of practicing pregnancy prevention and safer sex.”

Except that the words “pregnancy” and “safe sex” are never spoken. And the pitch man in the “Mile High campaign” is flamingly gay. The TV ad is being run locally on MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central and TLC, and the radio ad is running on KMEL-FM, a San Francisco station.