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Recent Articles
Keeping Kids From Seeing Smut Will Take A Lot More Than Canceling Netflix
Bringing about meaningful change in the wake of ‘Cuties’ is going take a lot more effort than just canceling your Netflix account.
By Emma Freire
A massive outcry over indecent content, demands for a legal investigation, calls for boycotts, countless op-eds bemoaning the decline of American morals — no, I’m not talking about the current backlash against the Netflix movie “Cuties.” I am referring to Janet Jackson’s bare breast during the Super Bowl halftime show back in 2004. It was and still is one of the most controversial events in television history.
At the time, I found it strange that the backlash focused […]
Review Of Comprehensive Sex Ed Shows Little Effectiveness, Increased Sexual Activity
- School based comprehensive sex education shows very little effectiveness, a global research review found.
- The review also found that studies of school based sex education foundincreased sexual activity in some cases.
- This comes as families across the U.S. protest against explicit sex education programs taught in schools.
A global research review of school based comprehensive sex education programs found very little effectiveness from these programs and instead found increased sexual activity.
The review, conducted by the Institute for Research & Evaluation and published in the Issues in Law and Medicine in January, examined 60 studies of […]