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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; Chastity</title>
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		<title>Chastened: a post-feminist experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/chastened-a-post-feminist-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/chastened-a-post-feminist-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure a couple of movies have been made with topics similar to this. The difference here, of course, is this woman&#8217;s plan was not for the sake of comedic effect.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Maybe something is changing for the better out there among Generation Y. A British journalist in her early 30s has written a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents need to ask the hard questions</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/10/parents-need-to-ask-the-hard-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/10/parents-need-to-ask-the-hard-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good stuff to keep in mind for parents of teenagers. Heidi (one of our blog followers) being one, what do you think?
by Katie Hinderer
Last week’s post about attire and the male versus female mind has drawn a lot of comments. (I love hearing what you have to say, so keep the thoughts coming.) All the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen pregnancy: It’s the attitude, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/teen-pregnancy-it%e2%80%99s-the-attitude-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/teen-pregnancy-it%e2%80%99s-the-attitude-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thought of kids having kids is really disturbing to me. I had my first child when I was 25, and I can say, it&#8217;s serious business. I can&#8217;t imagine doing it while trying to go to high school or even college. And who is really going to be raising these children anyhow? My guess is, the grandmothers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstinence message &#8211; teachers wrong, student right</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/01/abstinence-message-teachers-wrong-student-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/01/abstinence-message-teachers-wrong-student-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From One News Now comes this article about a high school student who dared to wear a T-shirt to school that promoted&#8230;.(gasp)&#8230;..abstinence!
A middle-school student in Minnesota has regained his right to wear at school a T-shirt bearing an abstinence message.
Officials at Hastings Middle School had initially prohibited seventh-grader Johnathon Kinney from wearing the T-shirt with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood and children&#8217;s sexual rights</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/24/planned-parenthood-and-childrens-sexual-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/24/planned-parenthood-and-childrens-sexual-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I appreciate the author&#8217;s attitude on how ridiculous this is. Since when is it okay to usurp parental authority over a ten-year-old and teach them the &#8220;pleasures of sex&#8221;? When was sex ever a good thing for any child? Please, let&#8217;s teach children NOT to have any self-control. Let&#8217;s tell them to sneak around their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pure cynicism</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/1338/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/1338/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Way to go, PM! Way to voice your opinion even when it&#8217;s so horribly unpopular. . . and when you&#8217;re right.
Carolyn Moynihan
Horrors! The next prime minister of Australia might be a man who advocates virginity for young people.
Here is this week’s shock-horror story from Australia: the country’s next prime minister might be a man who advises his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens and porn: a feminist’s worries</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/20/teens-and-porn-a-feminist%e2%80%99s-worries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/20/teens-and-porn-a-feminist%e2%80%99s-worries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone, but still, nice to see some confirmation by someone overtly stating it.
Carolyn Moynihan
A British feminist is sounding the alarm about the effects on teenagers of easy access to pornography, saying that a skewed view of sex is becoming the norm in society and the idea of intimacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescents in a pornified culture</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/18/adolescents-in-a-pornified-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/18/adolescents-in-a-pornified-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To put it simply, porn will cause the destruction of the universe! Or just marriage and real, meaningful relationships, but it&#8217;s just the start, I tell you!
 
Patrick F. Fagan, Mercatornet.com
By undermining marriage and family life, by assailing them on the internet, pornography is doing serious harm to young people.
&#8220;Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective: More sex ed, lies, and modern culture</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/24/perspective-more-sex-ed-lies-and-modern-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/24/perspective-more-sex-ed-lies-and-modern-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcia Segelstein &#8211; Guest Columnist -OneNewsNow
Listen up, parents. The goal of sex education is not to prevent unwanted pregnancies and diseases. The goal is to promote sexual freedom.
That may sound outrageous, but it&#8217;s the premise of Dr. Miriam Grossman&#8217;s new book, You&#8217;re Teaching My Child What?, and it&#8217;s backed up by plenty of cold, hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Guard Against the Gardasil Juggernaut</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/06/on-guard-against-the-gardasil-juggernaut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/06/on-guard-against-the-gardasil-juggernaut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George Delgado, M.D.
No one likes the feeling that something has been shoved down his or her throat.  Merck, the pharmaceutical giant is looking like a bully in how it thrust Gardasil, the first genital human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, on the US market.      
You might imagine genital HPV infection being like an iceberg.  The small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADMITTING SEX IS PROCREATIVE &#8211;  A SURPRISING PROPOSAL TO CURB NON-MARITAL BIRTHS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/06/admitting-sex-is-procreative-a-surprising-proposal-to-curb-non-marital-births/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/06/admitting-sex-is-procreative-a-surprising-proposal-to-curb-non-marital-births/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Helen M. Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law, Culture of Life Foundation
This is the last in my series of columns on out of wedlock births.  By now you know that 4 in 10 U.S. births are nonmarital; this rises to 7 in 10 for African-American Women, and  5 in 10 for Hispanic women, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accountability is the Key</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/05/accountability-is-the-key/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/05/accountability-is-the-key/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the keys to sexual integrity, is accountability.  Small groups of like-minded men, keep each other honest, in their efforts to remain chaste. Here is how it works at the University of Maryland:
Fasting trains the person to deny his body something it wants so that the desires of the body are controlled by the [...]]]></description>
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