Abstinence-only education still comprises nearly half of the nation’s curriculums despite its complete impracticality. These teachings disproportionately endanger young women, too. Sex ed must enter the 21st century and work to actually educate young people, rather than shame them.
Birth control. We all had at least one experience with it, whether we have used it ourselves of know someone who has. Behind sterilization, the pill is the second most popular kind of birth control, according to the Center for Disease Control.
The first picture on my Tinder profile was a snap of Bill Clinton. The Press has a life-sized cardboard cutout of him chilling in our office, so he became the profile picture of the Stony Brook Press’ official tinder page,…