family - sexuality

Raising boys

Rebecca Walberg | 27 August 2008 | comment 2

A mother and paediatrician writes about what sons need from parents, and how families and culture often shortchange young men.

The best thing since Harry Potter?

Clare Cannon | 05 August 2008 | comment 7

Teenage girls have fallen in love with this breathtaking vampire romance.

The Pill: past its use-by date

Jennifer Roback Morse | 31 July 2008 | comment 24

Actually, the whole idea that technology can deliver consequence-free sex has outlived its shelf life.

Legalised prostitution: a failed experiment

Pauline Cooper | 09 July 2008 | comment 1

The Australian state of Victoria has sanctioned prostitution, turning it into a growth industry but doing nothing for women who want out of it.

As it was in the beginning

Joanna Bogle | 01 July 2008 | comment 24

Why sexual issues matter enough to cause a schism in the Anglican communion.

Experimenting with children’s sexual identity

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 May 2008 | comment 12

Gender benders are consigning more and more disturbed children to the path of sex change on the basis of a shaky philosophy.

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 | comment 11

The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation.

The mystery of evil

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 May 2008 | comment 31

The crimes of Josef Fritzl cannot be explained within our normal secularist assumptions about the world.

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008 | comment 39

Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing. 

The unkindest cut

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 January 2008 | comment 23

Female circumcision is outrageous, but then so is much of what we do to women in the West.

The myth of the ‘teenage brain’

Thomas Lickona | 17 December 2007 | comment 13

Is it true that your offspring will not be capable of a mature decision until he or she is 25?

‘Tell us about love’

Carolyn Moynihan | 13 December 2007 | comment 9

A survey of young people in a developing country shows that it is not sex, but love they really care about.

Real love revolution

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 November 2007 | comment 14

The Second International Congress on Life, Sex and Love has come and gone, but the campaign to keep love real will never finish.

Focus on sex education: eyes on Manila

Carolyn Moynihan | 01 November 2007 | comment 4

'Keep love real' is the theme of the Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex, and Life taking place this month.

Focus on sex education: protecting the heart

Juan Francisco and Maria Luisa Velez | 01 November 2007 | comment 15

The only really 'safe' sex comes from learning how to love, and that takes character.

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