I was your typical middle school nerd who still giggled at fart jokes and would easily blush if any of my classmates brought up the word “sex.” Although, even then, I knew a multitude of friends and schoolmates were already regularly engaging in sex. In fact, it was not rare to see a pregnant schoolmate [...]

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In college, I was a struggling, debt-ridden, sleepy-eyed and over-studied student just like the majority of the thirty thousand other students who attended my university. Sure, we had the trust-fund babies who would come to school decked out in gorgeous clothes, driving the latest models of SUVs and living in the nicest apartments or dorms [...]

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Researching and writing about condoms, HIV and AIDS as much as I do, my mind almost always turns to Africa where HIV has reached epidemic levels in several countries. So, my jaw just dropped when I read the recent report that the HIV rate in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., was being compared to those [...]

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