Apparently There’s Something Positive in Waiting to Have Sex

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I know, I was blown away too, you guys.

A new study has emerged out of Brigham Young University claiming that there is some pretty vast appeal to delaying sex in relationships, whether it’s weeks, months, or even ’til marriage. Looks like all of your church ventures as a child have come back to visit you once again, ladies and gentlemen.

The study claims that people who put off sexual relations …

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The Obama Administration Can’t Make Up It’s Mind About Sex Ed, and Neither Can We

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The Washington Post’s article “Obama Administration’s Sex-Ed Program Criticized by Both Sides of Abstinence Debate” discusses how, as with many issues of late (cough, gay marriage, cough), the Obama administration does not want to commit to funding only methods of sexual education that are proven to work. But more than this administration’s specific problem, their stance on sex ed seems to represent the greater confusion our society has over …

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What Judy Blume Means For Sexual Education Today

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The Hollywood Reporter claims that it exclusively discovered that the movie version of Judy Blume’s young adult novel, Tiger Eyes, and is to start filming today in New Mexico. Well I’ve got news for you, Hollywood Reporter – if you followed Judy Blume on Twitter, you would have known in April that she was writing the script for it!

Who-scooped-her notwithstanding, Blume has long been reticent to adapt her films to the big screen, saying:

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New Virgins-Only Dating Site Emerges

MSNBC’s resident tech and social media blogger Helen A.S. Popkin has found a real gem of a website, the virgins-only dating matchmaker You and Me are Pure. The website is supposedly sold-out of their gift memberships, but you can still get a virginity card for the bargain price of $3.50, but no refunds (“just like your virginity,” muses Popkin). While the site seems to be merely seizing on the currents pro-virginity and pro-abstinence trends (Jonas Brothers, Twilight, etc.), this website is the first to make sure that it’s members are virgins through the use of the cards they sell. While the website boasts some less than inspiring success stories, the glimmering couples they use in the photographs are models used for “illustrated purposes only.” Indeed, the whole site looks rather like a scam, but, then again, isn’t most of the abstinence industry just a way to trick people …

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