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8.23.10

The Wisdom of Siblings: Just Make Out For, Like, Five Years

Take it slow, be honest...and careful with Facebook!

Guests talk about advice they've given - or wish they'd given - to younger family members. [12 min 39 sec]

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8.09.10

Camels, Dirty Cookies, and No Sex in The City: An Interview With Elna Baker

If there’s one thing she’s learned, it’s how to be herself...

Laura Stepp talks to writer and comedian Elna Baker about falling in love, being a virgin in New York City, and saying things that matter. [11 min 59 sec]

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7.26.10

I Can't Get Pregnant - Oh Wait, I Can!

Think because you smoke weed, had an abortion, or haven't gotten pregnant or gotten someone pregnant yet, you're infertile? Think again...

Laura Sessions Stepp talks to students at Montgomery College in Maryland--and to a professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta--about common fertility myths and misconceptions. [11 min 09 sec]

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July 16th 2010

Attention Hollywood: Bring Back the Real Best Friends

- Laura Sessions Stepp

This piece is cross-posted from The Huffington Post.

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It's a scene hard to forget: a 16-year-old girl early in an unplanned pregnancy, alone and leaning up against a junky trailer somewhere in west Texas. Has anyone sadder looking been on television recently than Becky Sproles in last week's episode of Friday Night Lights?

7.12.10

Selling the Big O

Should drug makers be defining female sexual pleasure?

Liz Canner's documentary ORGASM INC. takes on female desire, pharmaceutical marketing, and the medicalization of women's sexuality. Laura Stepp talks to Canner and others about what--or who--is really behind the current "epidemic" of female sexual dysfunction. [12 min 13 sec]

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6.28.10

STD Investigators: Solving Mysteries, Saving Lives

Many young people, like older adults, are scared to get tested for STDs...so they don’t.

Melissa Wong and Teri Lopez, STI investigators in California, explain how they track down former partners of people who’ve tested positive for a sexually transmitted infection—and make sure they get tested. [9 min 45 sec]

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June 21st 2010

Marriage: The Ultimate Act of Subversion?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

A colleague of mine recently attended a wedding of two friends. It took place in a park, in the rain. The bride fretted.

“If the wedding isn’t perfect,” she said, “people will say, ‘Well, they were too young to get married.'”

A non-sequitur but please understand: The bride was 22, the groom, only a couple of years older. In the bride’s view, her friends, her parents, maybe even a nosy neighbor, would use any excuse to question her decision.

The fact is, many of us do look at couples who tie the knot before they’re--what, 26? 28? 30?--and think either 1) they’re super religious, 2) she must be pregnant, or 3) poor dears, they must not know any better.

June 14th 2010

Dear Landon: Decorum Is Not the Same as Honor

- Laura Sessions Stepp

This piece is cross-posted on The Huffington Post.

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Do not be fooled by student codes of conduct. They're more about decorum than desire, or cheating on tests rather than cheating on your girlfriend.

Which means the age-old assumption, "Boys will be boys" is alive and well, and girls are still, as Maureen Dowd put it, prey.

6.14.10

My Father, Myself: An Interview

Sometimes a bad example is the best way to learn...

For Father's Day we asked a young man named Shane to interview his father, Roland, about some of the rougher times in their family history. Shane and Roland show us that it's never too late to open up about sex, relationships, and what it takes to be a good partner. [11 min 02 sec]

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June 4th 2010

Outsourcing Online Dating: Are We Really Okay With This?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

This piece is cross-posted from The Huffington Post.

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Dear God. Single men (and a few women) are now paying strangers to find suitable dates for them online. According to a recent article in The Washington Post, they don't have the time -- or the will -- to do it themselves.

So add relationships to the list of things that can be outsourced, along with cleaning your condo, detailing your car and buying and delivering your groceries.