Rebecca Onion

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Tree So Horny

Can Sex Sell Environmentalism?

Article by Rebecca Onion, Illustrated by Corey Pierce, appeared in issue Hot & Bothered; published in 2006; filed under Activism; tagged advertising, beauty standards, environmentalism, porn, sex.

What you think about Fuck for Forest, a Berlin-based website that lets subscribers watch videos of environmental activists doing the nasty, depends in part on what you think about porn as a whole. If you think it’s liberating, empowering, and fun for the folks involved, then you can feel good about supporting an organization that channels its massive earning potential toward worthy antideforestation efforts—unlike regular internet porn, the dollars you spend aren’t paying for the gold plating on some smarmy webmaster’s hot tub.

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Student Counsel

Talking Sense with The Education of Shelby Knox’s Creators and Star

An interview with Shelby Knox, Rose Rosenblatt, Marion Lipschultz by Rebecca Onion, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged abstinence, education, religious right, Republican, sex, sex education, Shelby Knox, Sundance.

Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes, and that may be truest in the realm of sex-education controversy. Texas, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, has also been at the forefront of abstinence-only education in public schools since 1995, when then-governor George W. Bush signed the curriculum into law.

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