Gonorrhea may soon be an untreatable disease.

The problem of antibacterial resistance is, if you’ll pardon the pun, a growing one and it’s looking like Gonorrhea is near to joining the already too-long list:

Gonorrhea Could Join Growing List of Untreatable Diseases – Yahoo! News

Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world with about 600,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. . . . → Read More: Gonorrhea may soon be an untreatable disease.

Seems young Christians can’t keep it in their pants any better than anyone else.

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Over the years there’s been a lot of press over the various Christian movements to promote chastity until marriage. From “True Love Waits” to purity rings and pledges, the goal is the same: Keep young Christians from bumping uglies until their honeymoons.

Philosophically I don’t really have a problem with these movements. If you want . . . → Read More: Seems young Christians can’t keep it in their pants any better than anyone else.

This is a very good point.

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Thief does $20,000+ in damages to steal one $150 sex toy.

I’ve had my fair share of blue balls over the years, but I’ve never been so hard up that I considered smashing my car through a sex shop:

BROWNHELM TWP. — The thief who crashed his car through AdultMart here early Wednesday knew exactly what he wanted: He picked up a $300 sex toy, discarded . . . → Read More: Thief does $20,000+ in damages to steal one $150 sex toy.

Another study shows “virginity pledges” are ineffective.

We’ve already seen lots of studies showing that abstinence only sex education is a miserable failure, but what about the popular-among-the-True-Believers virginity pledges where a daughter pledges to her father that she’ll abstain from sex until marriage? As it turns out the best they do is delay how soon someone has sex for the first . . . → Read More: Another study shows “virginity pledges” are ineffective.

Teenage pregnancy on the rise for the first time in 15 years.

So how well are all those abstinence-only over funded sex education programs doing anyway? If this report is anything to go buy the answer is “not very well.”

The birth rate had been dropping since its peak in 1991, although the decline had slowed in recent years. Yesterday, government statisticians said that it rose 3 . . . → Read More: Teenage pregnancy on the rise for the first time in 15 years.

Another report shows that Abstinence Only programs don’t do jack shit.

From the Haven’t-We-Heard-This-Before department comes word of yet another study that says despite the spending of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars abstinence only programs still don’t work:

“At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number . . . → Read More: Another report shows that Abstinence Only programs don’t do jack shit.

When “I Love You” just won’t fit.

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Thanks to the friends at harikari.

Pastor uses “spare the rod” verse to spank and rape female parishioners.

As if we needed more proof of the detrimental effect deep religious faith can have on one’s ability to think critically there’s the following news item out of Texas. A woman is suing the pastor of her church after her attempts at receiving spiritual guidance led to his using Biblical verses to forcibly spank and . . . → Read More: Pastor uses “spare the rod” verse to spank and rape female parishioners.

Teen sex in Florida is legal, but pictures of yourselves in the act isn’t.

This news item seems completely out of whack: A 16 year old girl and a 17 year old boy in Florida had sex and decided during the course of their tryst to take digital photos of themselves humping like rabbits which the girl then emailed to the boy. Both claim they didn’t show the pictures . . . → Read More: Teen sex in Florida is legal, but pictures of yourselves in the act isn’t.