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Advocates Updates
- Muslim Youth Project RFP due March 31, 2010
- Mr. Sidibe’s UNAIDS framework for global HIV/AIDS - Advocates' Blog
- On Wisconsin! - Advocates' Blog
- New article in the Parents Sex Ed Centerby Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal
- Job opening: Coordinator, Youth Activist Network
New Publications: 
- Poorer girls not getting HPV vaccine for cervical cancer (USA Today)
A cervical cancer vaccine is not getting to many of the girls who need it the most, a new study shows. - A look at the health care overhaul bill (Washington Post)
Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. - Colo. abortion foes say they cleared petition bar (Washington Post)
Colorado abortion opponents say they have enough signatures to put an abortion-ending proposal on the ballot this fall - potentially the first state this election year to see the question. - With Ban on H.I.V. Immigrants Now History, Relief and Revision (New York Times)
Experts say tens of thousands had interrupted lives thanks to a 22-year United States ban on allowing foreigners with H.I.V. to live in this country. - How a Man Produces 1,500 Sperm a Second (National Geographic)
Researchers have unlocked just how this seminal feat is possible. - Sex Assault Reports Rise in Military (New York Times)
The Department of Defense released an annual report on Tuesday showing an 11 percent increase in reports of sexual assault in the military over the past year
by Nikki Serapio, Manager of New Media Strategies
Recently my colleague Sarah Audelo and I had the chance to attend RootsCampDC, which brought together over 700 community and online organizers. (Kudos to the New Organizing Institute for spearheading a great event.) We were excited to meet and listen to so many inspiring activists...no doubt, it's not often that you can talk about social networks and old-school advocacy with both a Chavez-era labor organizer and a young tech startup CEO (at the same time)!
Here's what I took away from my RootsCamp conversations.
1) Let's work to bridge "online" and "offline." It's tempting to think of websites and social networks as constituting one separate and isolated sphere. If I tweet about Utah's horrible new miscarriage law, for example, we might expect this to lead to...well...more tweeting. Ultimately, though, our duty is to use online tools in order to promote real-life organizing.
More after the jump!
What is "having sex"? It depends who you ask
by Emily Bridges, Director, Public Information Services
Advocates for Youth has long argued that one of the many problems with abstinence-only programs is that people have differing definitions of "sex" and "what it means to remain abstinent." New research from the journal Sexual Health confirms that this is, in fact, a problem. Researchers surveyed adults ages 18-96 and found wildly differing ideas about what people define as an act of sex. For instance, only 1/3 of young men ages 18-29 and 60% of young women ages 18-29 classified performing oral sex as "having had sex," while almost 80% of men and women ages 30-64 classified performing oral sex as having had sex. Young people were also less likely to consider anal intercourse "having had sex."
Confusion about these definitions has played a role in sexual behavior for some time.
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