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Questions Your Children Ask Me:

Can you get a famle pregnet from sex in the anus with a condom.

I volunteer at Los Angeles-area public schools teaching sex ed to 9th graders. At the end of every class, I hand out index cards to the kids and they write down questions they don’t want to ask out loud. These are your kid’s questions. These are my answers. When I tell people that I teach [...]

Questions Your Children Ask Me:

What did you say about stinging?

Two (18%) of the ladies in my life have been allergic to latex condoms. The general population is supposed to be allergic to the proteins in natural rubber latex at a rate of 0.37%, at least according to this article, so 18% seems awfully high, especially when you exclude the women with whom I didn’t [...]

Questions Your Children Ask Me:

Honesty, Please

I volunteer at Los Angeles-area public schools teaching sex ed to 9th graders. At the end of every class, I hand out index cards to the kids and they write down questions they don’t want to ask out loud. These are your kid’s questions. These are my answers. A few times a year, I get [...]

Sex Positive: An Epitaph?

“Safe sex came from activists, porn stars, sex workers and their community driven efforts.” This quote comes from the webpage of a documentary I just Netflixed, or put on my Netflix® queue (out of respect for their trademark), called Sex Positive, about Richard Berkowitz, a S/M-huslter turned AIDS-activist who was one of the inventors and [...]

Triangle Trade in Foreskins, Part 2

It is no accident that the effort to circumcise men in HIV crisis areas of Africa came to the fore during the long reign of Bush’s Global Gag Rule. His administration’s sex-negative “health” policies erected barriers to condom distribution, limited the ability of organizations to educate populations about safer sex practices and preferentially funded abstinence-only [...]

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    Adrian Colesberry is a comedian and writer who lives in Los Angeles. He enjoys mindless pop music, painfully difficult reading projects, sex, and peanut butter and jelly on wheat toast.