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Naked news: Gaga on celibacy, Huckabee on gay adoption & Nike on Tiger

• “[I]t’s not really cool any more to have sex all the time,” says Lady Gaga.
  
  
• Mike Doesn’t-Believe-in-Evolution Huckabee’s deep thoughts on gay couples adopting: “Children are not puppies. This is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out, how does this work?”
  
  
• “It was a surprise for me to see how many psychopaths I met in the priesthood,” says psychiatrist Dr. Lothstein, in a NY Times article about the Catholic Church pedophilia scandal.
  
  
• A new study, published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health,  suggests PG-13 films are serving up more violence though not as much sex.
  
  
• Most young adults agree that penile-vaginal intercourse is sex, but less than one in five think that oral-genital contact counts as having sex. Hello, this is another good reason why comprehensive sex ed is imperative.
  
  
• Speaking of sex ed: the socially conservative, Evangelical District Attorney of Wisconsin sent a letter to health teachers threatening the risk of criminal charges if they follow a new law mandating comprehensive sex education.
  
  
• In a huge blow to reproductive rights in Nebraska, state lawmakers pass a bill banning abortions at 20 weeks based on assertions that fetuses feel pain by then.
  
  
• In case you haven’t seen it, the Nike ad featuring a somber, stupid-looking Tiger Woods, post-sex scandal — bleh.

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