• OPINION

  Sex education is a youngster's right

  News, Published on 25/05/2012

  » When five out of every 100 girls aged 15-19 in a country say they have been pregnant at one point in their lives, you probably want to sit up and listen. And then you want to do more. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did.

• OPINION

  Family planning by choice

  News, Published on 07/12/2012

  » My grandmother was born in 1899, the youngest child in a family of 11 children. She herself had only two children, and the first one was born when she was 27 years old. "I don't want to spend my life washing nappies and cooking food," she told my grandfather, and he agreed.

• OPINION

  No morality in opposing abortion

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/01/2013

  » Let me be direct. When you say you are against abortion because it's sinful, it's not your morality talking, it's your misogyny.

• OPINION

  Sex and religion don't mix

  News, Published on 02/06/2013

  » In reference to the article published in last week's Spectrum, "When in robe _ the young monks struggling with gender issues", it is evident that when gender and sexuality are left to interpretations by a religion it always results in adverse affects on society. Dhamma has nothing to with the problems related to the sexual identity of young children. Sexual variation is a natural phenomenon throughout the animal kingdom.

• OPINION

  Asian govts have to build better lives

  News, Published on 19/09/2013

  » Half a century ago, the world was warned of the imminent explosion of "the population bomb". There were fears that humanity would suffer mass starvation. And that societies would plunge into turmoil _ all because of overpopulation.

• OPINION

  Postbag: Secrets of elections

  News, Published on 14/12/2013

  » In the past, unscrupulous political parties gave out money or other incentives to potential voters in exchange for their votes - something that had to be carried out in secret.

• OPINION

  Porn culture perpetuates violence against women

  News, Published on 19/03/2014

  » If you turn on the TV, flick through a magazine or look at billboards, you will see that porn has now become a blueprint for how the media represents women's bodies. Whether it be Katy Perry writhing almost naked in a music video, or Miley Cyrus "twerking" with a man almost twice her age (who seems to have a "blurred" understanding of sex), the images that bombard us daily look much like soft-core porn did a few decades ago.

• OPINION

  Ignorance is fuelling teenage pregnancy

  News, Published on 12/06/2014

  » When mentioning “pregnant adolescent” many people tend to think of a “bad girl”, a girl of loose morals, dressed provocatively perhaps, drinking beer and frequenting the types of people no decent person would want to hang out with. After all, these girls display the typical behaviour we associate with the causes of teen pregnancy: drinking alcohol, having sex before marriage, having many or even multiple boyfriends twice her age, and not being interested in school. In a word, thoroughly shameless girls, and when they get pregnant it should come as no surprise.

• OPINION

  The economic cost of homophobia

  News, Published on 25/06/2014

  » As a gay man living in Nigeria, my biggest challenge was choosing between my sexuality and my job.

• OPINION

  Facts about condoms

  News, Published on 31/01/2015

  » Facts and proven practices should prevail over outdated attitudes and unfounded fears in a long overdue plan to install condom vending machines in schools.

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