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MOST READ [4-9 MAY]

1. Fake Lesbian Phenomenon [Explicit Photos & Video] [4,738]

2. Sex Addiction [4,182]

3. More Casual About Sex [Hook-Up Culture] [4,180]

4. 2: Top Five Viral Videos [3,733]

5. 5: Fantasy Five [Explicit Videos] [3,649]

6. 27: Last Week's Front Page Photo Stories [3,626]

7. Cybersex Games [3,135]

8. Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War [2,952]

9. From Lolita to Miley Cyrus: Delicious Nymphets [2,463]

10. Almost Dead Bush: You Say Asshole; I Say Arsehole [2,099]

11. New Art: "Actress Slash Model" [Martin Maloney] [2,015]

12. Sex & Society: Prostitutes Condemned with Extreme Prejudice [1,914]

13. Sex Lives of Politicians [Don't You Long to Know More?] [1,873]

14. Maureen Dowd Gets Class-Conscious! [1,770]

15. 3: Top Five Viral Videos [1,742]


FRIDAY 9 MAY

Sex & Society: Prostitutes Condemned with Extreme Prejudice [1,304]

3: Top Five Viral Videos [1,096]

Meet the BoObs [Bourgeois Obamians] [713]

Myanmar [Burma] Disaster: Imperial Powers Itching to Intervene [651]

8: Most Popular Articles [Last 28 Days] [588]


THURSDAY 8 MAY

5: Fantasy Five [Explicit Videos] [1,804]

Myanmar [Burma]: Cyclone Disaster Exploited by the West [787]

Hillary Clinton Plans to Push Campaign Beyond Primaries [760]

Consumer Capitalism 101 [683]

Superhero Costumes: Kitsch Clashes with Fashion [661]


WEDNESDAY 7 MAY

Fake Lesbian Phenomenon [Explicit Photos & Video] [2,155]

Sex Lives of Politicians [Don't You Long to Know More?] [963]

Hillary Clinton Chases the Prole Vote [864]

"Iron Man" - Capitalist Propaganda Movie [829]

American Idol: Dumbed Down & Out [572]


TUESDAY 6 MAY

More Casual About Sex [Hook-Up Culture] [2,162]

Hillary Clinton: "Yes, We Can!" [958]

Barack Obama aka Slim Shady [869]

Creationists: Dumb Design Freaks [664]

The Brilliant "Mad Men" & America's Culture War [534]


MONDAY 5 MAY

27: Last Week's Front Page Photo Stories [1,682]

Cybersex Games [1,385]

Maureen Dowd Gets Class-Conscious! [924]

Reverend Jeremiah Wright Faces Racist Abuse [903]

Oprah & Obama: "Ordinary" Blacks? [879]


SUNDAY 4 MAY

Sex Addiction [2,040]

2: Top Five Viral Videos [1,719]

Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War [1,318]

Almost Dead Bush: You Say Asshole; I Say Arsehole [1,216]

New Art: "Actress Slash Model" [Martin Maloney] [1,163]

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Teenage Sex Matters



From Lolita to Miley Cyrus: Delicious Nymphets

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:42 A GMT+01
Remember the then 16-year-old Britney Spears in 1998, bright-eyed, confident and lithe, gyrating sensationally in her school uniform while singing the ambiguous lyrics: "Hit me baby one more time". Suddenly, ogling schoolgirls was out in the open.

Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War

Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:24 A GMT+01
There's a shot showing Miley lying entwined with her dad in a pose suggestive of two lovers. She?s wearing low-cut jeans with her midriff exposed. He?s wearing a dark strappy T-shirt. There's an incestuous feel to it. Nice fathering there, Billy Ray.

Miley Cyrus [Hannah Montana]: Gorgeous Image of Adolescent Sexuality

Wednesday, 30 April 2008 6:57 P GMT+01
The portrait, due to run alongside a full-length interview in the June edition of Vanity Fair, shows the 15-year-old Miley Cyrus seemingly naked from the waist up, a satin sheet artfully wrapped to cover her chest while leaving her back bare.

Authoritarian State: Anti-Sex Propaganda Aimed at Teenagers

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 8:53 A GMT+01
Because of these "abstinence-only" programs, most teenagers feel anxious and embarrassed about their sexual desires and unsure of how to protect themselves. Girls in particular often end up viewing their sexuality as something shameful and taboo.

Sex & Art: Jock Sturges - Celebrating Adolescent Sexuality

Sunday, 20 April 2008 9:45 A GMT+01
Jock Sturges has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography. He shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girls.

Polygamist Sect & Pubescent Sex: Media Drool over Story

Friday, 11 April 2008 9:12 A GMT+01
nvestigators determined that there is a widespread pattern and practice of the (YFZ) Ranch in which young, minor female residents are conditioned to expect and accept sexual activity with adult men at the ranch upon being spiritually married to them.

Sex & Politics: Which Candidate Will Stand Up for Teenage Sexuality?

Friday, 28 March 2008 9:37 A GMT+01
Over the past eight years, the tide has shifted so drastically against adolescents. Since 2000, teens have faced a rise in abstinence-only education, hurdles to obtaining Plan B emergency contraception and a hike in the price of birth control pills.

Sex Infection! Using Fear to Curb Teenage Sexual Activity

Sunday, 23 March 2008 9:47 A GMT+01
After last week's report about 1 in 4 girls having contracted an STD, the NYT led with this as the title: "Sex Infection Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls." This is crass scaremongering with the darker intention of using fear to inhibit teenage sex.

Preteen Sexuality [The KIds Can't Help It]

Friday, 21 March 2008 9:25 A GMT+01
Tween is a neologism and marketing term, especially in the West, which means roughly the same thing as preteen. It is a portmanteau of between and teen. The age range of tweens in generally considered to be eight to twelve years old.

How About Sex? Who's Responsible for Contraception?

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 9:54 A GMT+01
There's the situation where he doesn't have a condom and she isn't taking an oral contraceptive, leaving them with the choice of either not having sex at all, or having unprotected sex. Both options are bad, and usually couples will have sex anyway.

Japan: Enjo Kosai - Sex & Teenage Prostitution

Thursday, 28 February 2008 2:24 P GMT+01
School age girls - usually high school but occasionally middle school girls - meet with older men, strangers, and date them in exchange for expensive designer label gifts or the money to buy them. The dates can range from a walk in the park to sex.

Lolicon Culture in Japan [Child Porn]

Friday, 22 February 2008 2:16 P GMT+01
The Lolicon industry produces photo books and magazines with teenage and preteen models sometimes as young as eight years old. The format is usually "near nudity" or "implied nudity", but a recent photo set featuring a 14-year-old girl went too far.

Sexual Liberation: Kids Just Want to Know about Sex

Friday, 22 February 2008 9:43 A GMT+01
The French have a more open attitude about sex and for believing that the freedom to display their bodies -- unclad on billboards or in tight street clothes -- is a fundamental cultural value, a bit like "the pursuit of happiness" in America.

Revolting Republicans: Holy Hypocrites [Sex, Sodomy & Pedophiles]

Friday, 15 February 2008 9:44 A GMT+01
Republican party politicos rage against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism - all of which they tend to lump together as different facets of the same evil decadence.

Teenage Sex Attacked by Right-Wing Vigilantes

Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:24 A GMT+01
The right-wing family values brigade was quick to portray Jamie Lynn Spears' high-profile pregnancy as evidence of a “culture of permissiveness” that was fueling high rates of teen sex, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy.

Why Do We Deny Teenage Sexuality?

Thursday, 24 January 2008 10:00 A GMT+01
A rise in teenage pregnancy rates for the first time since 1991 seems to have re-awakened Americans' fears over the problem of early childbearing. This latest panic reflects the nation's dogged denial about the role of sexuality in adolescence.

Sex & Teen Culture

Sunday, 13 January 2008 9:45 A GMT+01
Porn is now part of mainstream teen culture. "We talk to girls and boys who feel very uncomfortable talking about it or challenging it, as it has become an 'acceptable' way of receiving sex information. It's more enticing than boring sex education."

Jamie Lynn Spears & Teenage Pregnancy: Middle Classes Get Their Knickers in a Twist

Friday, 28 December 2007 9:45 A GMT+01
Middle-class parents across the country were commiserating with each other over the Internet about how, thanks to Ms. Spears, they were facing a conversation with their 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds about sex. What advice should they give their bratz?

Teenagers & Sex: Anything Goes

Thursday, 27 December 2007 9:29 A GMT+01
Abstinence-only programs have a flaw in common: The focus is on "sex" defined either explicitly or implicitly as vaginal intercourse. The abstinence kids pledge not to have sex (vaginal intercourse) but do have oral sex, manual sex, and anal sex.

Jamie Lynn Spears: Proud to Be Pregnant!

Thursday, 27 December 2007 9:27 A GMT+01
In schools and shopping malls and around the dining room table, mothers, daughters and fathers, too, talked about the pregnancy of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, who plays the perfect, well-liked, virginal teenage girl on “Zoey 101” on Nickelodeon.

Sex & Booze

Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:13 A GMT+01
Researchers have linked the clinical diagnosis of alcohol dependence and conduct disorder among 18 - 25 year olds with having a high number of sex partners. No surprise there. We drink to lose our inhibitions. Is the consequence is sex, so be it.

Teenage Births: Pride Replaces Shame

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:16 A GMT+01
When I was in high school during the Reagan years, most girls who found themselves "in trouble" would either proceed directly to an abortion clinic or be shuffled off to mysterious group homes designed to keep pregnant teenagers out of sight.

Christian Extremists Are Sexual Deviants: "I'm Staying a Virgin for Daddy"

Tuesday, 11 December 2007 9:34 A GMT+01
Father-daughter purity balls are increasingly popular among conservative Christians in the campaign for abstinence instead of condoms. "I'm devoting my virginity to my dad, saying that I will stay pure because it is the Christian thing to do."

Teenage Sex: Early & Often [Dispatches]

Wednesday, 28 November 2007 9:48 A GMT+01
A new study contradicts earlier research that teenage sex is "unhealthy", leads to drug use, criminality, antisocial behaviour and emotional problems. In fact, teenagers have better relationships in their adult years when they engage in sex early.

Teenage Sex: Abstinence Makes the Lust Grow Stronger [Dispatches]

Friday, 9 November 2007 9:57 A GMT+01
We have to stop those crazy abstinence programs wrought by the neocon Right and aimed to force-feed teenagers bogus evidence that sex is deadly and icky and fraught and poisonous and should be avoided completely if not somehow surgically eradicated.