It’s Monday, is your brain ready for a quiz? About.com‘s Sexuality section has a fun quiz on vibrators that let’s you pick the level of difficulty at which you’d like to play. I picked Very Hard and only missed one question (phew!) but the easy ones are fun too. Here are some examples:

Easy:

Hard:

How well did you do?

I love it when science backs up common sense. A report commissioned by the Bush administration was released a few weeks ago (quietly, on a Friday) that states that abstinence-only education has no effect on delaying or preventing sexual activity before marriage. The good news is that it also doesn’t have the harmful effects of increased STI rates that previous studies had found. Still, it’s heartening to know that tactics based on shame and paternalism won’t work on teenagers. Why this study wasn’t commissioned before we spend $1.5 billion dollars on funding this kind of education is something I think this country will come to regret for a long, long time.

As a child in a pro-abstinence household, I came by my sex education like so many others – the hands on approach. I was lucky to have someone who knew their stuff to explain things to me and as such, I probably got a more honest education that many of my peers (and my class had a really fun lab!). Still, the isolation I felt could have easily been avoided and the stigmatization that abstinence-only programs foster around sexually active teens is extraordinarily damaging, to say the least. After years of feeling shameful about any sexual act before marriage, do we honestly expect that shame to go away once a wedding ring appears? I have no problem with people waiting until they get married to have sex if that’s their decision. I just want that decision to be made with the most accurate information possible so that whenever people decide to have sex, it can be the best sex possible.

RH Reality Check has a great analysis of and commentary on the report. It’s a great summary for anyone who doesn’t want to read the entire 173 page document. There’s also a very interesting post about abstinence only programs in Africa on a blog called Talk to Action.

It’s Thursday which means it’s time to impart some knowledge. Usually, I’ll write this stuff myself but there are limitations. Namely, I don’t speak Spanish (yet). Thus, I will never be able to write any of my tips in Spanish. Fortunately, that doesn’t matter because I’ve found a blog with fantastic G-Spot instructions in Spanish with an English how-to video go to along with it. It’s a pretty good video so I’d recommend checking them both out (the video is below). The how-to guide includes information on anatomy, stimulation (“la estimulacion”), positions and sex toys including the Crystal Wand, the Magic Wand and the Snugglepuss.

Finding, Locating, Exciting, Estimulating G-Spot – The funniest bloopers are right here