Heather Corinna

Today, a Scarleteen user (thanks, puppysrcute!) posted the following at the boards: What do you think about this? To which, I replied: That, in general, we don’t have the long-term, solid data to have any idea if this is wise or damaging to women, and until we do, I’m not (and Scarleteen by association) going to endorse it, even as an option for women who do simply want to choose it as preference, not as doctrine or by pressure to do so.

Teen pregnancy and parenting are hard, so if you’re thinking about trying to make it happen, here’s some food for thought.

I don’t believe it! Who saw it coming? How could this happen? (Yeah, I’m no more convincing with playacting than the administration is.) In a completely unsurprising turn of events, following Bush’s failed (though one has to wonder if it wasn’t supposed to) attempt to bring the conservative-but-not…

The biggest part of the battle with relationship problems isn’t fixing them so much as it is recognizing that there ARE problems, what they are and being willing to address them and work a little to seek out healthier patterns of behavior.

Hanne Blank is not a virgin. (She’s almost 37 and she’s been living with her life partner for nine years – we just thought we’d get that out of the way.) But she is a historian, a writer, and an expert on virginity, having written the first-ever history of the subject, “Virgin: The Untouched History.”

we hear everybody talking about puberty, attributing everything from the development of breasts to being in a crap mood on Tuesday to it, but what is it, really?

To: National Desk Contact: Ted Miller of NARAL Pro-Choice America, 202-973-3032 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ – NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation’s leading advocate for personal privacy and a woman’s right to choose, said Americans are outraged that the Bush Administration will allow…

There’s a reason for taking things slowly, for putting off intercourse, or taking it away from center stage that often gets overlooked. I’m not talking about slowing things down for religious or moral ideals or social pressures. Not slowing things down to prevent STIs and pregnancy. Not even slowing things down for legal reasons or because of your age. I’m not talking about Just Say No, and I’m not talking about not having sex at all. I’m talking about PLEASURE.

If an average woman feels guilty about an abortion, due at least in part to numerous negative and pervasive cultural influences – including those which both idealize motherhood and which demonize abortion – but largely interpersonal or very immediate messages and influence, how might an “average” woman feel if at least half a nation, in 1973, made her the poster child as the most known “babykiller” of all time, and she was since held historically in that regard?

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A woman angry with her 12-year-old daughter for having sex forced the girl to drink bleach and sat on her until the child died, a police detective said. The girl’s 9-year-old brother was forced to watch the attack, Detective Warren Cotton testified Thursday in a preliminary…