Tag Archives: abstinence

HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“Religious conservatives loved the HPV virus because it killed women. Here was a potentially fatal STI that condoms couldn’t protect you from. Abstinence educators pointed to HPV and jumped up and down—they loved to overstate HPV’s seriousness and its deadliness—in their efforts to scare kids into saving themselves for marriage. And they fought the introduction of the HPV vaccine tooth-and-nail …

Read More »

New Reality Show For Bristol Palin

Snowbilly pass-out party bottom, teen mom, and abstinence advocate Bristol Palin has been handed yet another reality series. Bristol: “The next show that I’m going to be doing will be with Chris and Kyle Massey and we’re going to be doing a reality show and it’s charity-based and it’s going to be out of California.” Mediaite notes: The internet helpfully …

Read More »

TRAILER: The Waiting Game

A Christian abstinence film with a cameo by Ted Haggard.

Read More »

Bristol Palin Is Writing Her Memoirs

Teen mother, abstinence proponent, and reality show star Bristol Palin is writing her memoirs at the age of 20. Hey, if Justin Bieber can do it… The memoir is set to come from William Morrow & Co., a subsidiary of HarperCollins, which published Sarah Palin’s first book, “Going Rogue: An American Life” and her second book “America by Heart: Reflections …

Read More »

Christian Ladies (Put A Purity Ring On It)

Read More »

VIRGINIA: Lynchburg Mayor Declares Valentine’s Day To Be Day Of Not Fucking

The mayor of Lynchburg, Virginia has signed onto the Liberty Counsel’s “Day Of Purity” pledge that unmarried residents will definitely NOT fuck on Valentine’s Day. At this week’s Lynchburg City Council meeting, Mayor Joan Foster announced the Day of Purity Proclamation. As the first city to sign in support of the Day of Purity, Lynchburg joins nearly a thousand schools …

Read More »

Totally The Worst Clip In The Entire All-Time History Of Everything

Mark this date. It’s the end of the internet.

Read More »

Bristol Palin: People Are Voting For Me Because I’m Untouched And Raw

Last night Bristol Palin’s dancing partner directly addressed speculations that her presence in the DWTS semi-finals was due to Tea Party support, prompting Bristol to reply that she was there because voters found her “untouched, raw, and vulnerable.” The pair has been at the bottom of the judges’ scores for six weeks.

Read More »

I Am Not A Bush. I Am You.

Gawker has published a man’s anonymous account of a one-night stand with a hammered Christine O’Donnell on Halloween night 2007. But according to the author, he was too turned off by the sight of O’Donnell’s unwaxed vah-jay-jay to go through with any actual sex. So as far as we know, she really IS still a virgin. She’s a chaste Christian …

Read More »

The Christine O’Donnell Tea Party Flag

Read More »

Bristol Palin’s PSA On Teen Pregnancy: Pause Before You Play

Bristol Palin’s is making the morning show rounds to promote her new anti-teen pregnancy campaign, which is funded by the shoemaker Candies. Palin says the new campaign isn’t about abstinence per se, but she does encourage that whole “no sex until marriage” thing. HuffPo has the PSA.

Read More »

Bristol Palin Lands TV Series Role

America’s most famous unwed mother will play herself in an upcoming ABC series called The Secret Life Of The American Teenager. Bristol Palin, daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, will play herself as a friend to the show’s protagonist, Amy, at a music program for teen mothers. “Secret Life” focuses heavily on how Amy’s family and friends deal …

Read More »

Abstinence-Only Education Is Back

Not only did the Senate Finance Committee kill the public option yesterday, they voted to restore funding to federal abstinence-only sex education programs, despite overwhelming evidence that kids who receive such instruction tend to have sex earlier and get knocked up at younger ages. A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for …

Read More »

Abstinence Fail: Drinking Bleach Kills HIV

Horrified by bizarre myths about HIV and pregnancy that are apparently believed by some Florida teenagers, lawmakers are moving to ditch their “abstinence only” program and overhaul sex education in the state’s public schools. Florida teens who believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy have prompted lawmakers to push …

Read More »

Prom Night II: The STDs

Remember that recent study proving that kids who pledge abstinence until marriage actually have “significantly more unsafe sex” than regular kids? Apparently that result is lost on Oklahoma’s Agape Project, judging by their new billboard campaign. (Photo via JMG reader M.A.)

Read More »

Levi Johnston Talks To Tyra

Rocket scientist Levi Johnston, the former would-be son-in-law of Sarah Palin appeared on Tyra Banks’ show today to say that he and Bristol absolutely had safe sex all the time. Except for all those times when, you know, they didn’t. And that they knocked boots in the Palin home with Sarah’s knowledge.

Read More »

Bristol & Levi’s Wedding Is Off

Gov. Palin is only going to use her shotgun to shoot animals from helicopters. Cuz not only is the wedding off, Bristol and Levi are broken up. In a new interview with Star Magazine, Levi’s sister Mercede Johnston says Bristol actually broke up with Levi more than a month ago, is not attending school and rarely lets her baby daddy …

Read More »

Duh Of The Day: Bristol Palin Thinks Abstinence Education Is “Unrealistic”

And she’s as well-spoken as her mother.

Read More »

The Truth About Rick Warren’s AIDS Work

Apologists for Obama’s selection of Rick Warren continually point to his work in fighting AIDS in Africa. OH, but hang on a motherfucking minute. In exhaustive piece at Daily Beast, Max Blumenthal rips the fucking lid off the real job Warren is doing in Africa with his right-hand man Martin Ssempe. [S]ince the Warren inauguration controversy erupted, the nature of …

Read More »

Virginity Pledgers More Like To Get Knocked Up

So much for those creepy purity balls and abstinence pledge cards. Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today. The new analysis …

Read More »