The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

This article is a warning to parents about the options of Halloween costumes out there.  Popular costume trends can make little girls into sex objects (and we are seeing this younger and younger even from family-friendly stores).  Rebecca Hagelin asks the question – for whom are these young girls dressing up for?  14 year old [...]

Washington Times reporter Cheryl Wetzstein explores the myth that it is the lack of adequate sex education in school that has created our teen pregnancy problem.
Her emphasis in this article, however, is off. This story is all about contraception. She goes on about the formal instruction in schools on how to use condoms and other [...]

Leslee Unruh, President and Founder of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, received a phone call on Friday from a reporter at World Net Daily. He told her of the story he was working on about sex-researcher Alfred Kinsey and one of his victims who has come forward to report on the abuse she experienced.
If you decide [...]

If you watched the national news recently, I’m sure you heard about Tyler Clementi,  a college student at Rutgers University who committed suicide after his roommate recorded his homosexual behavior with a webcam and then broadcast it online.  Cyberbullying is cruel and immoral behavior no matter the motive.  Columnist Marybeth Hicks from Townhall.com points out [...]

As reported in the MTV blog, Hollywood is making a movie adaption of the book The Abstinence Teacher.  They have even tentatively recruited famous actors Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock to star in leading roles. 
 
Making a movie about this awful book shows how threatened Hollywood is by the abstinence world-view.  How many of you [...]

Contact: Katie Walker, American Life League, 540-659-4942
 
WASHINGTON, July 13 /Christian Newswire/ — Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, issued the following statement concerning the proposal to teach comprehensive sex education in grades K through 12 in the Helena, Montana, public schools:

 
“Parents in Helena are right to be upset about these proposed sex courses [...]

Dr. James Dobson has a new book ‘Bringing Up Girls’ as a resource for parents, grandparents and teachers to “equip you to raise girls to become successful women who can deal wisely with the challenges they’ll face in our turbulent world.”
Check it out here:
http://links.mail-family.org/servlet/MailView?ms=MzA0MjE2MwS2&r=MjQzNjUxMzMyMQS2&j=OTI0MTM1NjAS1&mt=1&rt=0 

By Kathleen Gilbert
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Louisiana’s House of Representatives has struck down a bill that would have mandated explicit sex-education curriculum in public schools across the state starting in 4th grade.
House Bill 529 was voted down 67-23. The bill states that public sex education would promote “healthy attitudes concerning … [...]

4-9-10
Layden is a psychotherapist at the University of Pennsylvania who treats sexual violence victims, perpetrators, sex addicts and members of the sex industry.
1. What are you finding about the dangers of pornography?One of the ways I think that people know it’s harmful is when I treat sex addicts. At some point in the treatment I [...]

March 19th, 2010
Source: http://www.movieguide.org/
Actress Dakota Fanning’s irresponsible handlers, including, apparently, her mother, have put the 15-year-old star in another adult drama, this time one that includes a “steamy” lesbian kiss, a “heavily implied” lesbian sex scene, and scenes of snorting cocaine in bathrooms.
The movie is about the early career of openly lesbian rock star Joan [...]