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The Austin Nimocks interview Dr. J traveled to San Francisco last week for the Proposition 8 hearing to discuss who has standing to appeal and defend Prop 8. In this podcast she interviews Austin Nimocks, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund and part of its marriage team. Together they discuss the importance of this hearing for traditional marriage in California and the rest of the 9th District states in the west. The results of this hearing may potentially lead to a federal mandate of same sex marriage nationwide!
This is something you should care about! Listen here.
Special Note: Dr. J will be live-blogging from the California Republican Convention this weekend. Get an inside scoop on the goings-on by checking Ruthblog.org!
 Hey, what's this? A new feature to the Ruth Institute newsletter? That's right. We have a new regular starting this week, something a little light-hearted to help you through your day: An excerpt from the "Parenting is Funny" blog. We'll feature one a week here, but feel free to read more at the blog itself until you have your funny fix! Here's a sample:
My 12-year-old son was invited with a few other friends to sleep at his cousin’s house. In the middle of the night, they decided it might be fun to walk about a mile into town to the Dunkin’ Donuts and get a snack. Since the only people in Dunkin’ Donuts in the middle of the night are the staff and the local police....they got a ride home.
Keep reading to find out what happened next.
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By Maggie Gallagher, founder of the National Organization for Marriage and a syndicated columnist for 14 years.
Article first published at RealClearPolitics.com.
Shocking news: Virginity is on the rise in America.
The source is sober, academic, practically irrefutable: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Its latest analysis of the sex lives of Americans age 15 to 44 includes a startling finding: Virginity is increasing among teens and young adults in the U.S.
Compared with data from the 2002 (National Survey of Family Growth), a higher percentage of males and females 15-24 in 2006-2008 have had no sexual contact with another person. In 2002, 22 percent of young men and women 15-24 had never had any sexual contact with another person, and in 2006-2008, those figures were 27 percent for males and 29 percent for females.
The survey was was drawn from in-person interviews with a national sample of 13,495 males and females. The data were collected using audio computer-assisted self-interviewing, or ACASI, in which the respondent enters his or her own answers into the computer — known to be the most accurate way of collecting sensitive data.
The response rate for the 2006-2008 NSFG was 75 percent — very high for this kind of data.
The increase in virginity is not just “technical virginity,” mind you. These are young adults who say they have had no sexual contact of any kind: no intercourse, no oral sex, no anal sex. (Presumably, a lot of them have, however, kissed and hugged!)
I’m an old hand at stats. But even I was surprised by this finding buried in the report (Table 3): 32 percent of currently married women under the age of 45 say they have had only one sex partner in their life.
Slightly more than 50 million Americans are married. If the figures for those under 45 mirror the national figures (a conservative assumption), that means the number of women who have never had sex with anyone but their husbands is at least 8 million.
The same data show that less than 2 percent of adults under the age of 45 self-identify as “homosexual, gay or lesbians” (more if you count bisexuals, of course). If the data are accurate, they suggest there are at least as many adult women under the age of 45 who have never had sex with anyone but their husband as there are gay people in the general population.
But unlike gay folks, these women are invisible, derided, ridiculed or treated as a virtual impossibility.
Why is this good news? When young women refuse to engage in promiscuous sex, they protect themselves, our culture and our next generation of children from a variety of concrete harms — from sexually transmitted diseases to infant mortality, welfare dependence, school failure and juvenile delinquency associated with increased risk of young, out-of-wedlock births. HIV alone costs $20,000 per year per person who contracts it, according to the Rand Corp.
While the majority of people who contract new cases of AIDS are gay, a big chunk of new HIV cases are heterosexuals — and those most at risk are women who engage in anal sex with men.
Sadly, this CDC report also documents the mainstreaming of this dirty and dangerous sexual practice for women: Close to one-third of heterosexual women under the age of 45 say they have had anal sex at least once.
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