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Get Real! Can People With No Sexual Experience Have STIs?

Heather Corinna on September 26, 2008 - 8:00am
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Maybe they don't. But it still makes sense to start a life-long commitment to safer sex practices now.

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Roundup: Pennsylvania Threatens Cuts to Successful Sexual Health Program for Students

Brady Swenson on September 9, 2008 - 11:35am
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Pennsylvania Department of Health threatens to Significantly cut funding of successful high-school-based Health Resource Centers in favor of abstinence-only; Palin makes conflicting statements about sex education and contraception, so where does she stand?; Questions arise about whether Palin supported making rape victims pay for investigative tests as mayor of Wasila.

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Sex Ed: Not Just for Teens

Pamela Merritt on September 2, 2008 - 8:00am
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STD rates are up among older adults. And our reaction -- surprise, confusion -- suggests that we need to examine our attitudes towards sexuality at any age.

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Get Real! I Have HPV -- Do I Have to Tell Him?

Heather Corinna on August 22, 2008 - 8:00am
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Knowingly putting someone at risk of a HPV infection -- an infection that isn't yet curable and for which men can't be tested accurately -- without giving them a choice about whether they want to take that risk isn't okay.

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Get Real! Should I Visit a Crisis Pregnancy Center?

Heather Corinna on August 1, 2008 - 8:00am
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This week on Get Real!, Heather Corinna's sexuality advice column for teens, Heather answers questions about crisis pregnancy centers.

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Roundup: The Global War on Sex Education

Brady Swenson on July 22, 2008 - 12:21pm
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The far right has been waging a war against sex education, contraception and family planning for decades, More than 100 members of congress write Bush on HHS proposal, New gag rule for Indian Health Services, Family planning in the Phillipines, HIV/AIDS in the US South.

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Get Real! Should I Feel Bad About Taking Plan B?

Heather Corinna on July 18, 2008 - 8:00am
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Worried about your obtaining emergency contraception in light of HHS draft regulations that would limit access to birth control? Teens have questions about EC, too. Heather Corinna explains how the medication works.

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War on Contraception and Science Going Strong

Susan Wood on July 18, 2008 - 8:00am
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From Plan B to proposed regulations redefining contraception as abortion, the Bush War on Contraception and Science is being waged until the bitter end.

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Get Real! The Great No-Orgasm-from-Intercourse Conundrum

Heather Corinna on July 15, 2008 - 8:00am
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On Get Real!, Heather responds to the dozens of teens who ask about young women and orgasms.

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Get Real! Meet Your Prostate

Heather Corinna on July 15, 2008 - 8:00am
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This week on Get Real!, Heather talks to a young man who wonders why he enjoys anal play.

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