A great piece from Slate on the misogyny and conservatism guiding opposition to the cervical cancer vaccine. (The author writes, "For the conservative opposition, in the end, it may be worth it for several thousand women to die from cervical cancer every year as collateral damage in the war against premarital teen sex.")

Quoted: America declared a "war on cancer" 30 years ago, and yet few cures or vaccines have been discovered since. So when Merck announced that it had a created a drug that could prevent some 70 percent of cervical cancers from developing, you would think Americans would rejoice.

An interesting article on a study done far more recently than Alfred Kinsey's. I think Kinsey deserves a lot of credit for pioneering this field, but I am happy to hear there are new reserachers devoting more attention to a larger sampling of the population, particularly including more women,

Quoted: Alfred Kinsey spent 25 years conducting his famous sex surveys. But there's a larger survey, conducted in the 1990s, that far outdid Kinsey in terms of statistical reliability. It's the most authoritative sexual self-portrait the country has. But you've probably never heard of its author, because unlike Kinsey, he has worked hard to keep it that way.