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A mainstay of sex ed

From Standpoint, the operation that can ruin your life: Sex-change treatment for children is abuse and some transsexuals regret having it. A review of God Made Your Body and a review of How God Makes Babies by Jim Burns. An interview with Miriam Grossman, author of You're Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Ed and How They Harm Your Child (and more on politically incorrect sex ed). How to lobby against sex ed: Retired Massachusetts businessman Raymond Ruddy is using his fortune to jam abstinence-only programs into federal health care legislation. From Newsweek, the future of abstinence: It's been a mainstay of sex ed for more than a decade — now, as the Obama administration cuts off federal funding, the movement scrambles for money, determined to continue its mission; and the sin of yielding to impure desire: A brief history of sex ed in America. An interview with Robie H. Harris, a pioneer of sexuality education, and author of It’s Perfectly Normal, It’s So Amazing!, and It’s Not the Stork! How sex ed fails us: October is sexuality education month, but today’s teenagers couldn’t be in a worse place to protect their sexual health. From Details, a look at how Internet porn is changing teen sex. From Campus Progress, a look at the problem with the campus sex column “movement”. Sex is free, healthy and good for the soul: An article on Carlyle Jansen's crusade to transform the facts of life into the fun of life. When it comes to sex, most self-help books offer more "self" than "help". A look at the 5 most ridiculous sex self-help books.