Deb Levine, the founder of Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS), kicked off the annual Sex::Tech conference today in San Francisco, an event dedicated to advancing sexual health of American youth. Deb unveiled the findings from ISIS's just-released white paper on how youth and young adults use technology for their sexual and reproductive health. While the teen pregnancy rate is Read more

The Netherlands has the lowest teen birth rate in the Western world. Teens wait longer to have sex (average age to lose virginity is 17.7 compared to 17.0 in the US), are more likely to use contraception, and aren't likely to lose their virginity spontaneously, since the majority of teens say "love and commitment" is the reason to do it. The UK is trying to reform its own inadequate sex education Read more

By George! Get your popcorn (or pretzels?), a cocktail, and set the DVR, because tonight's Matt Lauer interview with George Bush should rival last Monday's World Series. NBC's been leaking juicy tidbits: last week we heard he asked an older woman what sex is like after 50 in front of his parents, and today we're getting a little (or a lotta) insight into Barbara Bush's patented sex talk. The Read more

"A young girl . . . asked me, how do you give a really good hand job? A, I'm like, no, and B, I said, well, where are you getting your information now? Like, more motherly. Well, on the Internet, she said. And I thought, why do we send our daughters to Brearley, then send them to Israel and Paris to learn about culture, and we send them to Vivid [Entertainment] to learn about sex?" — At Elle Read more

Do you ever find yourself wondering "Hey, what's Haley Joel Osment up to these days?" Me too, which is why I was excited to hear that The Sixth Sense star is heading back to the big screen. Osment hasn't done a movie since 2007, but he just signed on for a comedy called Sex Ed. Osment will play a college student who teaches a high school sex ed class, but — twist! — he's a virgin. It's Read more

Kim Cattrall told the Daily Express that her Sex and the City character Samantha has helped parents and kids open up about sex. One dad even came up to her and thanked her. "He said, 'You know, you really made it possible for me to talk to my 18-year-old daughter about sex.' That was lovely to hear, because it's a big step for a young girl's dad to be able to say to her, 'You know that episode of Read more

Bristol Palin may be the most public face of teen pregnancy and abstinence pledges, but the majority of pregnant teens in the US are not conservative white teens but black and Hispanic. A new study from the Guttmacher Institute shows the US teen pregnancy rates rose 3 percent in 2006 from its all-time low in 2005. It's easy to blame President Bush. Not only because we're used to it, but also Read more