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Sex-Positivity
Category Archives: health
One in Two Sexually Active Youth Will Contract an STD by Age 25 — Get Yourself Tested
April is National STD Awareness Month and with it, the award-winning campaign, GYT: Get Yourself Tested has launched for another year. GYT was launched by MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation and with the support of Centers for Disease Control, … Continue reading
Posted in health, sex and sexuality
Tagged activism, American College Health Association, American Social Health Association, Centers for Disease Control, Feministing, GYT, health, health care, Kaiser Family Foundation, MTV, National Center for HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention, National Coalition og STD Directors, Planned Parenthood, Professor Foxy, reproductive health, safe sex, sex and sexuality, sex educators, sex-positivity, sexual liberation, sexually transmitted infections, STD Awareness Month, STD testing, teen sex
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Don’t Drop the Ball–Statistics Show EC Sales More than Double After New Year’s Eve
Teva Pharmaceuticals, the makers of Plan B One Step ® emergency contraception found that sales of emergency contraception more than double in the days after New Year’s Eve. They noticed this trend through statistics from January 2009 and because of … Continue reading
Posted in health, sex and sexuality
Tagged Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign, birth control pill, condoms, contraception, date rape, emergency contraception, health, holidays, National Institute for Reproductive Health, New Years Eve, Plan B, RAINN, RAINN hotline, RAINN online hotline, rape, reproductive health, sex and sexuality, sexual assault
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Winter Skin Blues
No one is really immune to a classic case of winter blues; when you live in a northernish state known for brutal winters while all other seasons last a good few weeks and no more, you become quite used to … Continue reading
Posted in health
Tagged eczema, health, Periodontal Disease, psoriasis, skin care, stress, winter weather
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The Good, The Bad and The Burning
Warning: This post is mostly about “lady parts” and “lady problems.” If the words vagina, menstruation, bleeding, tampon, pad, and/or urinary tract infection or any variation of the previous words offend you, it would be wise on your part to … Continue reading
Hollywood Stands Up for Health Insurance Companies
A new hilarious Funny or Die exclusive features Will Ferrel, Jon Hamm, Donald Faison, Olivia Wilde, Thomas Lennon, Linda Cardellini and other Hollywood stars as they join together to ask “why is Obama trying to reform health care when insurance … Continue reading
Warning: Health Care Reform Should Not Be the Circus Anti-Choice Extremists Are Trying to Turn it Into
During a health care rally at the University of Maryland, a man took it upon himself to interrupt the president while he was attempting to speak to the crowd about health care reform and shout “Obama you’re a liar. Obama, … Continue reading
Posted in anti-choice extremism, health
Tagged abortion, abortion misinformation, anti-choice extremism, federal funding for abortion, health, health care, health care reform, health care town hall meeting, Obama Administration, reproductive health, reproductive rights, University of Maryland
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