My goal here is to proceed with care around judgment and sexuality, and to handle cultural sexual differences with grace and an open mind. And occasionally humor. Enter: the Dick Blender. Okay, maybe you won’t want to enter anything I’ve named Dick Blender, but I can’t help but think about Will It Blend when I…
Month: September 2011
Vatican Pundit Attacks Sex Ed With Bogus Cross-Cultural Comparisons
According to the US-based Catholic News Service, former feminist and unwed mother Lucetta Scaraffia uses some copiously wonky reasoning to argue that government-mandated sex ed programs are the cause of rampant casual sex, disease and unwanted pregnancy among America’s teens in an August 30 piece in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Scaraffia, a contemporary history…