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The Kirkwood Call

Being fwb, or friends with benefits, has become a new normal for teenagers  looking for the "benefits" of a relationship without the commitment.

Fwb?

Kinley Bokermann, sports editor March 6, 2022

Ross and Rachel. Nick and Jess. Cassie and Nate. What do all of these people have in common? Three words: friends with benefits. There’s only one thing you need to know — it rarely works out. Being...

Although some high schoolers may relate to these experiences, according to the Institute for Family Studies, fewer than 40% of American high schoolers have participated in sexual intercourse. 

Under pressure

Kylie Madden, features writer March 4, 2022

When opening Tiktok, Snapchat, Instagram or any other social media, chances are it will be crowded with opinions on the latest episode of the HBO Max show “Euphoria.” The show features many sex scenes,...

A KHS senior boy’s pornography addiction began when he was in 6th grade.

Addicted to porn

Maya Kim, web editor March 4, 2022

He flipped through the TV channels looking for something to watch and stumbled across a movie that contained something he hadn’t seen before. At 13, this was his first exposure to graphic sexual content....

While KHS teaches safe sex and abstinence, many private schools strictly teach abstinence.

Sex ed 101

Sim Khanuja, opinions editor March 3, 2022

“Somewhere the girl who may become your wife is keeping pure. Will you take to her a life equally clean?” This quote from a 1920s pamphlet reflected what sex education was at that time: modesty and...

This picture shows how the intake of drugs may be use because they make people seem more happy.

Photo Gallery: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

Tess Hubbbard, photographer March 3, 2022

The Kirkwood Call's 8th issue drops today, Thursday, March 3 and you can pick up your copy at the Dougherty Ferry and Essex entrance before school and find it in the TKC stands around the school. Here...

Cameron McCaslin, junior, is the president of the GSA and identifies as asexual and queer.

Asexual, not atypical

Bella Ruzicka, features writer March 2, 2022

Sometimes it’s not a lightbulb moment. “I’ve known I was asexual for a year or two.” Cameron McCaslin junior said, who uses ey/em pronouns, is the president of the Gender Sexuality Alliance...

It may surprise you the amount of so-called ‘appropriate’ songs that are actually about doing the dirty. Here are four songs you didn’t know were about sex.

Five songs you didn’t know were about sex

Caroline Steidley, opinions editor March 1, 2022

  In case you haven’t realized, practically every song is about sex. Whether the song is played on the radio, at a party or even a children's birthday, I’ll bet it has at least something...

While the costs of running the bases seem to outweigh the benefits, condemning casual sex isn't the answer.

Call Ed: Bases loaded

TKC Staff April 20, 2021

Our society is saturated with sex. On TV, in our magazines and even in our own conversations, it has a fixed place in our culture. Sometimes sexual activity comes during a long-term relationship, sometimes...

Tatum Shore-Fitzgerald

Safe sex

Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor March 5, 2019

For every woman who has unprotected sex, there is a 20 percent chance she will get pregnant.   Contraception methods: Art by Tatum Shore-Fitzgerald All information from Planned Parenthood

Let's talk about sex

Let’s talk about sex

Mimi Wright, in-depth February 20, 2015

“Just don’t do it,” Ella* believes. Don’t have sex in high school. It is not the time or place in life to experience the deep connection that sex creates. “I don’t think you should be having...

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