Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Unwed Mother Bristol Palin Preaches Abstinence and Safe Sex in Teen Pregnancy Ad

Bristol Palin has teamed up with fellow 'Dancing With The Stars' contestant Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino for a public service announcement about teen pregnancy.

In the Candie's Foundation PSA, Palin and 'The Situation' talk about abstinence and safe sex in a less than two-minute video ad.


"It's the prevention of teen pregnancy and it will be funny," The Politico quoted Palin as saying.

"Just 'cause he will kind of bring humor to the situation ... to the problem, and uh, I can't say that word anymore without laughing," she added.

According to the single mother, the PSA is going to open the dialogue between parents and teens about the issue.

The ad opens with 'The Situation' initially approaching Bristol, before realizing it's his 'DWTS' co-star.

"Have you ever had a situation with the official Situation," 'The Situation' asks.

After Palin explains that she doesn't plan on getting into any 'situations', the finest of the 'Jersey Shore' says, "You're not going to hook up before you're married? For real?"

"For real, for real, for real," she insists before kicking off a discussion about staying safe when having sex.

'The Situation' says that he respects abstinence, because "it has the word 'abs' in it," but doesn't plan on practicing it.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Oregon Couple gives out condoms for Halloween

SILVERTON, Ore. — Having a safe Halloween took on a different meaning in one Oregon neighborhood, where trick-or-treating teenagers received condoms in their goodie bags.

Daniel and Kathleen Harris, of Silverton, tell The Statesman Journal the free condoms were part of their effort to promote health. They also handed out toothbrushes as well as candy bars. (Statesman-Journal: Couple has been giving away handouts for two decades.)

The father of one 14-year-old girl who received the condoms, Daniel Cote, was offended and says it was inappropriate to give them to children without parents' consent.

Kathleen Harris says giving the condoms to the 14-year-old was a mistake. She says their usual practice is to ask teens if they're 16 or older and to give them a speech on safe sex.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Vampire Sex Makes People Forget Traditional Lovemaking

Intense, wild, and dramatic vampire sex could add spice to your night life.

With TV shows like 'True Blood,' 'Vampire Diaries,' and 'Twilight' movies and books, vampires and their signature form of sex have sunk their teeth into pop culture in a major way.

"Everything is more intense, more dramatic, and more passionate than what one would normally expect," ABC News quoted writer L.A. Banks, as saying.

"It's a love that can go all night but without the little blue pill," said Banks.

Banks is the author of the 'Vampire Huntress Legends' series, a 12-book saga dripping with erotica of the underworldly sort.

"The biting on the neck has to happen.

"What it does is it makes the sex something exotic and taboo. It makes it terrible and intriguing at the same time," said Banks.

"The suggestion of 'What would happen if,' the curiosity-the whole thing of the vampire is desire.

"If you have this pining, aching desire, that's part of the draw," said Banks.

Amelia McDonell-Parry, of TheFrisky.com and a self-proclaimed fan of vampire sex said: "There's an S and M, domination aspect that can be kind of violent, but in a mutually willing sort of way.

"It's never slow love making. It's always very crazy, very fast and very ferocious. Occasionally, when two characters are in love, it's more tender. But most of the time, it's not."

Friday, October 29, 2010

Condom Use Aims to Combat Oral Sex Cancer Risk

A BBC documentary presented by Jaime Winstone will examine the link between oral sex and rising numbers of mouth and throat cancer cases among young people - described as 'an emerging epidemic' by a Cancer Research UK expert.

Rates of oral cancers have gone up by 50pc in men since 1989 and are rising by 3pc a year in women, even as smoking, once thought to be the major cause, declines.

Oral cancers alone kill around 1,800 people a year.

Scientists have provided growing evidence over the last decade of the link between the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is passed from person to person during sexual activity, and an increased risk of developing oral cancer. It is better known as a major cause of cervical cancer.

"The evidence suggests that people are more likely to have an HPV-linked cancer if they have had multiple sexual partners and practised oral sex, whether they are men or women," the Guardian quoted Lesley Walker, cancer information director at Cancer Research UK, as saying.

"Winstone's documentary could have a very useful role to play," she added.

Lesley also noted that vaccination of schoolgirls against HPV should ultimately reduce the level of infection but condom use is already proven to lessen the risk.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Condom how-to's for better protection

Use of the male latex condom can reduce (though not eliminate) the risk of spreading STDs.

Using male condoms seems pretty easy, too. But condoms don't work unless you use them — correctly — every time you have sex. All it takes is one unprotected act of intercourse to infect your partner with an STD, which you may not even know you have.

So, again: Use a new latex condom every time you have sex.

Studies show that this isn't happening. According to the Minnesota Student Survey, a health and safety questionnaire administered every three years to teenage students, only 66 percent of male 12th graders and 59 percent of female 12th graders used a condom the last time they had intercourse.

Similarly, if condoms are not used correctly every time, the protective effect may be reduced. Using the condom incorrectly can lead to breakage, slippage, or leakage. The most common mistakes are:

■Putting the condom on after sexual activity has started
Putting the condom on incorrectly
■Failing to withdraw the penis while it is still erect
If you're using a latex condom every time, great. But to be sure you're getting the most possible protection from condoms, carefully read these instructions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
■Use a new condom for every act of vaginal, anal and oral sex-throughout the entire sex act (from start to finish).
■Before any genital contact, put the condom on the tip of the erect penis with the rolled side out.
■If the condom does not have a reservoir tip, pinch the tip enough to leave a half-inch space for semen to collect. Holding the tip, unroll the condom all the way to the base of the erect penis.
■After ejaculation and before the penis gets soft, grip the rim of the condom and carefully withdraw. Then gently pull the condom off the penis, making sure that semen doesn't spill out.
■Wrap the condom in a tissue and throw it in the trash where others won't handle it.
■If you feel the condom break at any point during sexual activity, stop immediately, withdraw, remove the broken condom, and put on a new condom.
■Ensure that adequate lubrication is used during vaginal and anal sex, which might require water-based lubricants such as K-Y JellyTM, AstroglideTM, AquaLubeTM, and glycerin. Oil-based lubricants (e.g., petroleum jelly, shortening, mineral oil, massage oils, body lotions, and cooking oil) should not be used because they can weaken latex, causing breakage.

Using a condom correctly and consistently shows that you respect yourself and your partner!

Does O'Donnell Want the Whole Country to Stop Having Sex?

(Sept. 24) -- Stop, in the name of love?

In newly unearthed video footage taken from a 2003 taping of the MSNBC show "Scarborough Country," Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is shown debating the topic of sexual abstinence and appears to suggest that the whole country should give up sex (presumably the premarital kind).

The exchange came with Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation, a group that seeks to educate young people about safe-sex practices. Here's how the back-and-forth went:

NIES: I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect yourself when you're going to have sex, because they're having it anyway. ... There's nothing that you or me can do about it.

O'DONNELL: The sad reality is -- yes, there is something you can do about it. And the sad reality, to tell them slap on a condom is not --

NIES: You're going to stop the whole country from having sex?

O'DONNELL: Yeah. Yeah!

For years, O'Donnell was a talk show fixture as she promoted an agenda of social issues. As a result, a veritable trove of clips has surfaced since O'Donnell defeated mainstream GOP incumbent Mike Castle in the Republican Senate primary two weeks ago. Since then, news organizations have reaired footage of O'Donnell declaring that the Bible forbids masturbation, that she once had a date on a satanic altar and that she herself "dabbled in witchcraft."

O'Donnell has recently said that many of her religious views have softened since a good many of the interviews were filmed. She has still not cleared up allegations about fabricating her educational records, however.

Expert Says Sexsomnia Runs in the Family

The first evidence that sexsomnia - the bizarre act of having sex while asleep - could be genetic has been found by scientists at Victoria University.

In his 16 years as a sleep expert, Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology, has met a man, who an hour after falling asleep would roll over and begin "rough, mechanical" sex with his wife. The next morning he would have no recollection of the act.

A few suburbs away, his adult son was doing the same, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend.

"This could be the first case in the world where we can see it runs in families," he said.

In both men, the sex started about 50 to 70 minutes after falling asleep, always when they were in the first deep stage of sleep, before dreaming began.

Both men were "rough and mechanical with no concerns for their partner's position or comfort" and neither could be deterred from their mission, even if they were yelled at or hit, said Kennedy.

The part of the brain that controls movement is gradually switched off during sleep as a child becomes a teenager, which is why many children "grow out" of sleepwalking or night terrors.

But in some teenagers that never happens, leaving them as parasomniacs with inappropriate arousals during sleep, causing them to walk, eat or have sex.

After 20 years of sexsomnia, the older man's wife left him. He sought help because he was worried that a new partner might find his behaviour equally disturbing.

Both men have been prescribed a short-acting benzodiazepine, which sedates them enough in the early stages of sleep to stop the behaviour.

A patient, while on a trip with his mates, claimed he was asleep when he visited a nightclub, drank alcohol and took a woman back to his hotel room for sex.

"His girlfriend believed him, but I didn't," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as saying.

This unusual case would be presented at the Australasian Sleep Conference in Christchurch.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Catholic Church Distributes Condoms

Switzerland 25.10.2010 - The Catholic Church of Lucerne, Switzerland is promoting the use of condoms on the 25th till the 27th of October with a its slogan "Schütze deinen Nächsten wie Dich selbst". This is a modification of the phrase "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" using protect instead of love.
The Church will be present with an Aids-Truck in front of the Lucerne train station to discuss the subject at hand and educate people about the current situation in some African countries right now.

As Father Alois Metz points out, the organisation is well aware of the controversy that condoms are causing in the Catholic Church. But they believe - in tune with an auxiliary bishop from Hamburg - that whoever is sexually active and is looking for several partners, should also protect everyone involved.