Here's some good news about teens and sex: Many more young men and women between the ages of 15-24 aren't doing the do.

Now, here's the bad news: they aren't from North Carolina.

A study by the  Center for Disease Control said teens and young adults are having less sex, but North Carolina may be an exception to the findings.

"Surveys display what they want you to see. In the state of North Carolina, if you work in the Department of Health and Human Services, you will see that's not the case," said Michele Martin, the women and youth education coordinator for the Western North Carolina AIDS Project.

The survey interviewed 5,300 teens and young adults between the ages of 15 and 24 across the U.S. and asked them questions about their sex life. The results showed between 2002 and 2009, 28 percent reported never having any sexual contact, including vaginal, oral or anal sex, which is an increase in abstinence from the 2002 result of 22 percent.

Martin said the results from the national survey did not match up with other statistics specifically about the sexual activity of young people in North Carolina.

"If you look at 2009 statistics, you'll see that there were 15,000 cases between the ages of 15 and 19 of chlamydia and there were 16,000 between 20 and 24. Those numbers only went up in 2010. Two-thirds of all chlamydia cases were between the ages of 15 and 24," Martin said.

North Carolina has the ninth highest teen pregnancy rate in the U.S., according to statistics by the Healthy Youth Act, as well as having 67 percent of all sexual transmitted diseases reported in North Carolina were between the ages of 15 and 24.

The Healthy Youth Act was approved by Congress in 2009 and went into effect for the 2010-11 school year. The act requires students in grades 7-9 receive an education on abstinence, as well as a comprehensive sexuality education, unless their parents personally remove them from the program.

Still think that abstinence-only education works?

According to Martin, if people try to be more honest, open and communicate with each other about sex, preventing teen pregnancy and the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases will be easier and more effective.

Want to get laid, but you don't want to pester your Facebook friends, go to the club or the local bar? After all, you're a broke college student. Well, there's a website for you and your wanton desires. (Should you decided to use it, however, you should probably remember what happened on Craigslist.)

But eduHookups has joined the World Wide Web to make sure students get laid. Looking through the website, it has the potential to blow up and become the Facebook of sex ... or fade away and become just another dating site.

NBC's The Today Show did a segment on the site, laying out the pros and cons:

After sifting through some of these listings, TODAY's Matt Lauer talked about eduHookups with Robi Ludwig, a psychotherapist, and Jeff Gardere, a psychologist, in an attempt to better understand how a site like that could affect young adults.

Ludwig plainly explained that "we don't know the short-term or long-term effects of a site like this."

Instead she focused on the fact that college students are seeking out a website in order to have sex in the first place. "It's not that hard to lose your virginity," she remarks. She doesn't think "we need a site like this to help college students have sex with each other."

What's worse than the fact that students are using a website like this, as Gardere explained, is that "when kids are in college, their identities are still forming. They don't necessarily know what they want." These kids might seek out casual sex because they believe that's what they want and need, but the reality might be entirely different.

He added on that he suspects that many will log on to eduHookups not just for the sex, but instead to see if they "can find a relationship or whatever is missing in their lives."

There are no North Carolina colleges on the site ... yet. But after Karen Owen's Duke Sex List, I'm sure that university will get the invite to the site soon.

Over the last month, there's been a swirl of controversy surrounding fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A. Why? Because the chicken peddler has been making questionable donations to anti-gay rights groups, which has put its relationship with North Carolina colleges in limbo.

he homophobic narrative around Chick-fil-A -- most notably the company's ties to anti-gay organizations like Focus on the Family, the National Organization for Marriage, the Ruth Institute, and the Pennsylvania Family Institute -- continues to define the popular chicken chain as 2011 rolls along.Last week, a gay rights organization in Missouri successfully got a local chamber of commerce to dis-invite Chick-fil-A's President, Dan Cathy, from speaking at an event due to the restaurant's political and financial support of leading anti-LGBT organizations. Now arrives word, thanks to QNotes, that several North Carolina colleges might be reconsidering whether to support the presence of Chick-fil-A on campus.

In the article, QNotes points out that Duke University is in the process of "reviewing their relationship with Chick-fil-A." Earlier this year, a few days after the Chick-fil-A story started to get traction, Duke's student newspaper featured a scathing editorial that suggested Chick-fil-A didn't belong on campus.

"At a place like Duke, where we have a history of activism and a culture that strives to accept others and be agents of change, Chick-fil-A is no longer in keeping with the institution and the values of the people here. In short, this is where its lack of corporate social responsibility deservedly should come back to haunt them," the article said.

The other school mentioned in the QNotes piece is N.C. State University. Justine Hollingshead, director for N.C. State University’s GLBT Programs and Services, told QNotes that students on campus are talking about what position to take on Chick-fil-A, and that she believes students ought to be the deciding factor in what vendors are available on campus.

Meanwhile, Dan Cathy once again said this week that his company isn't anti-gay, just adhering to biblical principles.

Chick-fil-A has stood on principals since opening, forgoing additional profits by closing on Sundays. But has the company crossed the line with these donations?

He added that while he and his company (via franchise donations and/or support through Chick-fil-A's charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation) will continue to support organizations like Focus on the Family, the National Organization for Marriage, and others opposed to LGBT equality, gay people are always welcome to buy chicken sandwiches from his restaurants."We're a restaurant that has a hospitality that says we're here to embrace everyone who wants to come and be part of Chick-fil-A," Cathy said, after his speaking gig in St. Louis was nixed. "So to be identified with some sort of hate group that has a political agenda -- that is not Chick-fil-A at all."

But actually, that is Chick-fil-A. At least until Chick-fil-A stops giving donations to or holding retreats for some of the most leading anti-LGBT organizations in the country.

Sixteen months ago, a South Carolina man was convicted of raping a horse. And no, I'm not making this up.

Rodell Vereen, 51, must serve two years probation and register as a sex offender, according to the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. Vereen was released March 1 and will be supervised until Feb. 28, 2013.

Vereen pleaded guilty in November 2009 to buggery and trespassing after he was charged in July 2009, when the woman found him in her barn at Lazy B Stables in the Wampee community of Horry County, police said. The woman pointed a shotgun at him until police arrived.

He was already a registered sex offender — because this wasn't the first time he'd mounted the horse.

n July 2008, Vereen, who owns a landscaping business, pleaded guilty to the same charge after he was caught Thanksgiving Day of 2007 having sex with the same horse.The woman told police she caught Vereen having sex with a 21-year-old female horse named Sugar. She told officers she had video of Vereen "having relations" with one of her horses on July 19, 2009, according to a police report.

Vereen also had prior convictions of burglary from 1991 and 1995. Vereen has been registered as a sex offender since pleading to the first buggery charge in 2008, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.

Some things,  you just can't make up. This is one of them. A Mississippi man was arrested and being held on a $60,000 bond for  — wait for it ... wait for it — having sex with pigs.

Eww!

Andrew Lee Nash, 52, was arrested on the spot.  I know even the police had to get physically ill watching  the video to get the evidence it took to lock him up.  Greenwood Police Chief Henry Purnell said the hogs were examined by a local veterinarian and he found that four of the hogs had a vaginal infection.

How nasty are you if you're giving a pig an STD?

If Nash is indicted and found guilty, he faces up to 120 years in jail.

Here's where I have a serious problem: When a man is convicted of raping a woman, he usually doesn't face this kind of time. That makes this story just that much weirder.

I thought my Facebook friends were joking about March 14 being Steak and Blowjob Day. Boy was I wrong and late to the party.

According to the website, which links to a Nina Hartley video about giving better head, this holiday was created to be the male version of Valentine's Day:

That's right, there's no special holiday for the ladies to show their appreciation for the men in their life. Men as a whole are either too proud or too embarrassed to admit it.Which is why a new holiday has been created.

March 14th is now officially "Steak and Blowjob Day". Simple, effective and self explanatory, this holiday has been created so you ladies finally have a day to show your man how much you care for him.

No cards, no flowers, no special nights on the town; the name of the holiday explains it all, just a steak and a BJ. Thats it. Finally, this twin pair of Valentine's Day and Steak and Blowjob Day will usher in a new age of love as men everywhere try THAT much harder in February to ensure a memorable March 14th!

Nearly 16,000 people are members of the Facebook group dedicated to the "holiday."

But, is there an alternative for women dating a man who doesn't eat red meat?

There's a law in North Carolina that bans registered sex offenders from using social media websites like Facebook. At face value,  it seems to be a good law. Social media seems to be a place where alleged sex offenders can meet their victims.

But a Chapel Hill attorney says the law is too broad.

Attorney Glenn Gerding, who is representing convicted sex offender Christian Martin Johnson, argues that the law is too broad, and would prevent his client from using sites like Google or Amazon, since both platforms offer social networking features. "The regulation does not just keep a registered sex offender from engaging in obscene speech with a minor," Gerding wrote, in a motion filed last month. "It prohibits any and all speech, however innocent, even if it's a religious conversation between the offender and his priest, or a discussion of family matters between the offender and his mother."

According the The Raleigh News & Observer:

Across the state last year, 75 offenders were charged under the law, which targets social networks such as MySpace and Facebook that allow minors as members.

And while lawyers representing sex offenders may find the law too broad and unfair, politicians say sex offenders can communicate without using the Internet and social media.

But Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, who sponsored the law as a state senator, says there are other ways registered sex offenders can communicate.

"We do have the mail," he said. "We do have telephone."

Dalton said the Internet restriction is no different from a sex offender being prohibited from running a food vending cart on a school campus.

"When you are deemed to be a sexual predator, sometimes you do not have all the full rights of every citizen out there," Dalton said. "It's got a good public purpose. We don't need sex offenders engaging with minors."

Last year, I told you about sex acts that are totally illegal in North Carolina. Acts that you and I probably do with our partners every time we hop into bed.

Well, now it's South Carolina's turn.

By law, if a man promises to marry an unmarried woman, the marriage must take place.

I know some women who are happy about this one.

It is illegal to give or receive oral sex in South Carolina.

No wonder former Gov. Mark Sanford got missing!

It is perfectly legal to beat your wife on the court house steps on Sundays.

Domestic violence is never funny and the fact that this is still on the books makes me happy to live in North Carolina.

In Clemson: Sexually oriented businesses may not open for business on Sundays.

Dildos must sell like hot cakes on Saturdays.

WBTV News Director Dennis Milligan has one comment about the story that angered the editor of the LGBT news paper QNotes: "We're sticking by our story."

Friday, QNotes released a statement about a story that WBTV ran on its Feb. 23 newscast about alleged gay sex in James Boyce Park. The park is listed on a website called CruisingGay.com. The editor of QNotes, Matt Comer, said the story missed the mark because it didn't feature facts, an incident or the voice of the gay community. The news station did a follow up on the story after Bill James fired off an e-mail to find ways to stop the public sex.

Comer released a statement, which said in part:

If WBTV actually sought to be “on your side,” they would use their skills as so-called media professionals to report accurately and fairly on news of substance. Instead, they chose to forsake real journalism for sensationalistic tabloidism backed up by no numbers, no evidence and no fact – coverage that ultimately furthers stereotypes, discrimination, bigotry and prejudice against gay men.

Milligan declined to comment on any specifics of Comer's statement but said, "We're standing by the content of our story. We have confidence in our story, and we reported it in a pretty straightforward fashion and that's all I have to say. I'm not going to get into any specifics of what he had to say. He has his own opinions, and he's certainly entitled to his opinions. We stick by the story and our reporting of that story."

Steve Crump, the reporter who filed the story and was called out in Comer's release, declined to comment.

Local CBS station, WBTV, reported about alleged gay sex in James Boyce Park, without actually having official proof of sex taking place there.

The report stems from a posting on a website, Cruisinggays.com, which is described as: "the world’s largest listing of gay pubs & clubs, gay cruising areas, gay friendly hotels & restaurants, gay saunas, gay services, gay events, and more."

The park is listed on the site with the comment, "Public Park with lots of trails." WBTV based a news story on the site, which by the way, still has Eastland Mall listed as a hot spot in Charlotte. How reliable of a source is this site?

James Boyce Community Park is located at 300 Boyce Road in southeast Charlotte.  It has the appearance of any park until you read the fine print found on a website called cruisinggays.com.

One visitor on the website claims people have sex on many of the trails and warns people that men have been seen having sex in the open.

We shared the contents of the site with some local parents at the park.

"That's real surprising as a parent that it's being advertised in a park like that," said Amanda Childress.

Police have been notified, but one person, in particular, is fighting back.

Brian Lutes leads the Stonehaven community patrol just blocks away, and he's hoping extra patrols can make a difference.

"In this instance, we're stepping it up, and trying to get down there several times a week," Lutes said.

Park patrons plan to be extra careful and people like Becca Dressler are hoping that police can put a stop to what's going on.

"I don't want my park being on a place for recommended sexual activity," Dressler said.

In recent years, the CMPD has conducted sex stings at various other parks in the Charlotte area and they have arrested numerous people soliciting or engaging in sex acts.

Missing from this story, according to Matt Comer, editor of the local LGBT publication QNotes, are facts, the voice of the gay community and an actual incident.

So, QNotes ran an article about the report:

WBTV News Director Dennis Milligan said his station learned of the park situation from a viewer.

“It [the public sex] had been the subject of neighborhood concern and consternation,” Milligan told Qnotes. “I think they had been in contact with the police department and there was some exchange of emails that there was going to be something done and that was forwarded to us.”

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) crime data tracking back to Jan. 1, 2011 show no reported incidents or calls for service related to public indecency or other sex-related crimes within a half-mile of the Boyce Park area.

Raleigh resident Sean Kosofsky is familiar with public park sting operations and the media reports that often follow them. For 12 years, he worked as the policy director for the Detroit, Mich.-based Triangle Foundation. There, he says, he dealt with hundreds of cases of gay men harassed, entrapped or intimidated by police in public parks and rest areas. [qnotes has requested data regarding public park stings and arrests from CMPD.]

Kosofsky says WBTV should have been more sensitive to the video images they used when producing the story.

“There is still a pervasive public perception that gay men are sex offenders and that if they are in these parks that children are somehow at risk of something,” he said. “Just because this website says that some adult at some time did something inappropriate in a park, that doesn’t mean that straight people aren’t doing this in public places all over. And, so the focus that somehow if it is gay men meeting in public that it’s a threat to children is lurid and a little bit biased, if not a lot biased.”

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a national organization that counters anti-LGBT bias in the media, echoed Kosofsky’s sentiments.

“The sensationalistic nature of this segment perpetuates crude stereotypes about gay men, and only serves to stir panic and prejudice in its audience,” GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios said in a statement today. “By circulating these images, WBTV is failing to meet the basic standards of fair and accurate journalism.”

There was a "publicized" arrest of a man soliciting sex from another man in Charlotte, this month. However, it didn't happen at this so-called hot spot. But at Charlotte-Douglas International airport, as reported by WBTV.

Police have charged a man who they say tried to solicit sex from an undercover detective last week.The incident happened at 4:14 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, at 6700 Old Dowd Road at the overlook at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.

According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Clinton Alexander Feemster, 58, was arrested for Soliciting Crimes Against Nature.

The police report said Feemster was "soliciting an undercover detective for oral sex."

Police say the incident occurred in a public area where families were present.

The CMPD has received numerous complaints from people who have observed lewd sexual activity taking place at this location.

Charlotte's relationship with the LGBT community, though the media and politicians, leaves a lot to be desired. Gays in this area are far too often marginalized and viewed as stereotypes to make someone's point or for a news stations' ratings boost.

Comer and QNotes issued this statement on Friday:

Correcting the record: WBTV’s anti-gay and sensationalistic tabloidism

The following is a statement from Matt Comer, editor of QNotes, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender newspaper based in Charlotte:

On Tuesday, Feb. 22, Charlotte news station WBTV ran a story by reporter Steve Crump (“Internet site links Charlotte to gay sex” http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14080924) on alleged incidents of illegal sexual activity occurring in James Boyce Park in Southeast Charlotte. Their report was biased, sensationalistic and furthered, whether intentional or not, the stereotype and negative social stigma that gay men are a threat to children. For more details, you can read QNotes' story on the station's coverage here: http://goqnotes.com/10106/.

As I worked on covering WBTV's original story and the response to it, I also conversed with both WBTV News Director Dennis Milligan and reporter Steve Crump regarding the production of their Feb. 22 story and the reasons why many people, including myself, felt that the story was biased and irresponsible.

Despite these conversations – which included my thoughts on "group blame,” in which an entire minority group, in this case gay men, are blamed or asked to apologize for or condemn the actions a few -- WBTV's follow-up report on Feb. 23 (“Commissioner requests investigation into alleged sex acts taking place in park” http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14089194) wholly misrepresented my statements and thoughts.

Steve Crump reported:

Meanwhile, Comer feels some in Charlotte's gay community are being stigmatized by those who break the law in public places.

"I don't think it's the job of the entire gay community to apologize for the actions a few within our community," Comer said.

It should be made abundantly clear that I do not believe the gay community is being stigmatized by its own, the majority of whom are likely gay or bisexual men who due to societal discrimination and prejudice are unable to acknowledge their sexual orientation in public and healthy ways.

Instead, as related to both Dennis Milligan and Steve Crump and as stated during my interview with WBTV, I believe it is the media and many times police departments — not only in Charlotte but across the nation — which too often and irresponsibly correlate illegal sexual activity among men with the entire gay community. Given that positive coverage of the gay community is often few and far between, negative stories like these do a great disservice to this minority community.

Obviously, Steve Crump and Dennis Milligan had a clear agenda in mind before producing the "follow-up" to their Feb. 22 story.

In this particular instance, the only people stigmatizing gay men are the staff of WBTV.

Real facts and figures show a reality much different from WBTV’s hysterical and hyped-up sensationalism. There have been no reported or documented incidents of illegal sexual activity in a half-mile radius of James Boyce Park since Jan. 1, 2009. Further, figures from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on the number of charges for solicitation of a crime against nature throughout the entire city and county in 2010 and 2011 reveal that the overwhelming majority of cases involve heterosexual prostitution.

If WBTV actually sought to be "on your side," they would use their skills as so-called media professionals to report accurately and fairly on news of substance. Instead, they chose to forsake real journalism for sensationalistic tabloidism backed up by no numbers, no evidence and no fact – coverage that ultimately furthers stereotypes, discrimination, bigotry and prejudice against gay men.

It is not hard to tell whose side WBTV is actually on; certainly it’s not with this minority community.