“In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.” FirstsMadeStillsActionSchoolSexSoundDecisionResponsibilityTerribleHigh SchoolFirst TimeMade ItAbortionMy SisterPregnantVirginiaSaving MoneyMcdonaldsMessed UpContraception Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing.” HumorKidsTodaySchoolFunnyRememberReadingSexTeacherHigh SchoolDiedOnlineSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Zach Galifianakis
“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” IdeasStoriesCareSchoolSexStudentsHigh SchoolDon't CareRidiculousVampireI Don't CareIrritatingAbstinenceUninformedHigh School Students Author:Alan Ball
“When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentHardKidsSchoolSexSleepWorryDangerousSafeHigh SchoolAidsLiberationJoyfulHippieDifferent WorldsElementary SchoolYour FreedomFree LoveLecturing Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard I tried. Success! Hypothesis confirmed.” MatterHardSchoolSexHigh SchoolExperimentsHypothesisSexually Author:Demetri Martin
“I asked a high school girl about unreciprocated oral sex and said, "What if guys were asking you to get them a glass of water and never offered to you a glass of water? Would you put up with that?" She burst out laughing. It never occurred to her.” IfsSaidSchoolGuyGirlSexWaterLaughingHigh SchoolAskingGlassesWhat IfSchool Girl Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.” ThinkingFirstsDoneWantedSchoolGirlSexTeachingPolicyCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolProgramProfessorsForeign PolicyGeorgetown Author:Madeleine Albright