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Sex & Relationships

A former Sesame Street writer stepped into a longtime debate, saying he considered Bert and Ernie to be a gay couple.
(Revierfoto/picture alliance via Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Former writer saw Bert and Ernie as ‘loving couple’; Sesame Workshop disagrees

The back-and-forth is just the latest in a years-long dispute.

3 years ago

Dessa went looking for the source of love in her brain, and then turned to the frontiers of neuroscience to try and heal a broken heart. (NPR's Skunk Bear YouTube)
NPR
Science

This rapper tried to use neuroscience to get over her ex

Clinicians have used neurofeedback to try and treat all kinds of mental health issues, and they say they've seen some positive results.

3 years ago

Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, faces accusations of sexual harassment from at least 12 women. (Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
NPR
Community

Les Moonves out at CBS after harassment allegations

Moonves' departure comes after six new allegations of harassment or assault were published in the New Yorker magazine over the weekend.

3 years ago

Philadelphia’s Health Center #1 at Broad and Lombard streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

STDs are up in Philadelphia, across the country

Some of the increase can be attributed to lax protection habits.

3 years ago

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A tinted transmission electron micrograph of Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria (light purple/black) inside a cell. Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S., with more than 1.7 million reported cases in 2017. (Biomedical Imaging Unit, Southampton General Hospital/Science Source)
NPR
Health

Record high number of STD infections in U.S., as prevention funding declines

"It is time that President Trump and Secretary Azar declare STDs in America a public health crisis."

3 years ago

(Illustration by Steve Teare)
The Pulse
Health

Times have changed. Is sex ed ready?

The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?

3 years ago

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Voices in the Family
Health

How to give good advice

Advice from others can be helpful – but it’s not always welcome. When a neighbor, colleague or loved one tries to tell you how to liv ...

Air Date: August 21, 2018

Listen 03:29
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Falling out of friendship

Guests: Andrea Bonior, Deborah Tannen Friendships end for many reasons —  a change of lifestyle, growing geogr ...

Air Date: August 20, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:22
FILE - In this Thursday, July 1, 2010, file photo, Bill Hybels, then-senior pastor of the megachurch Willow Creek Community Church located in Northwest-suburban Chicago, speaks in Washington. It was announced, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., that lead pastor Heather Larson is stepping down, and the entire Board of Elders will do so by the end of the year. Larson said the church needed new leadership in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against church founder Hybels. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Courts & Law

Evangelicals confront sex abuse problems in #MeToo era

The victims are coming forward to expose abuse in the Protestant evangelical world where some say the misdeeds have been just as pervasive as the acts by Catholic clergy.

3 years ago

Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, tells her story during an event put on by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia at Suzanne Roberts Theater.
Community

In Philly, #MeToo founder says next step for the movement is ‘harm reduction’

Tarana Burke sat for a discussion at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in Center City hosted by The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia Tuesday night.

3 years ago

Domestic Violence survivor Renee Norris Jones at her home in Nicetown. Norris Jones said that despite enduring years of abuse, nothing gave her more fear than when she was confronted with a gun. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

After years of domestic violence, a gun changed everything

Renee Norris Jones was in an abusive relationship for seven years.

3 years ago

Listen 7:48
Radio Times
Health

Making friends in adulthood

Guests: Jeffrey Hall, Andrea Bonoir How many hours does it take to make a BFF?  A new study by Professor ...

Air Date: May 7, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:13
Accuser Andrea Constand exits the courtroom during deliberations in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 16, 2017.
Courts & Law

Cosby retrial continues with more defense questioning of main accuser

Bill Cosby’s attorneys will continue questioning main accuser Andrea Constand this morning.

3 years ago

Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case, Friday, March 30, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

#MeToo movement expected to bring different dynamic to Cosby retrial

How will the #MeToo conversation seep into our criminal justice system and the Cosby retrial?

3 years ago

Voices in the Family
Health

Can Open Relationships Last?

About 5% of couples have open relationships – where the partners are committed to staying together, but see other people. In ...

Air Date: March 26, 2018

Listen 03:29
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