Iran’s plummeting birth rates

Michael Cook | 12 August 2009 | comment 2

Despite its fundamentalist Islamic reputation Iran has experimented with birth control with some unexpected, and unwelcome, consequences.

‘I need to wait’

Christopher Blunt | 30 July 2009 | comment 4

Surprisingly good messages about teenage sex and parenthood surface in an MTV series.

India re-colonised: the march of Western values

Anjalee Lewis | 29 July 2009 | comment 6

The legalizing of homosexual relationships by a Delhi court shows that a global, secular culture is gaining ground.

So long, and thanks for all the mess

Rebekah Hebbert | 24 July 2009 | comment 35

A 20-year-old is pretty mad at the baby boomers - with good cause.

Excuse me, Madam Speaker

Jennifer Roback Morse | 30 January 2009 | comment 18

If Nancy Pelosi wants to save the American economy some money she needs to stop investing in irresponsible sex.

The rights and wrongs of privacy

Janet E Smith | 01 November 2008 | comment 10

How did ‘privacy’ come to cover a multitude of sins? A philosopher explains.

The Filipino front in the culture wars

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 22 October 2008 | comment 47

The heavyweights of the global reproductive health agenda are making an all-out bid to displace the church as the conscience of the Philippines.

Sex without consequences, a world without commitment

Christopher Tollefsen | 01 August 2008 | comment 7

A world shaped by contraception is one that is far from friendly to marriage and family.

Singapore’s fertility woes call for a rethink of sexual attitudes

Nick Chui | 01 August 2008 | comment 6

Frenzied attempts to boost birth rates in the city state ignore one key statistic: abortion rates.

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.

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 09 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.

Protecting the pill

Carolyn Moynihan | 16 November 2007 | comment 18

Why does the medical establishment keep playing down the risks of oral contraceptives?

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