Who gets left out, ignored, dismissed or denied when someone states that sex, good sex or real intimacy or love should, can or does only happen within the context of monogamous marriage, or when any given couple has only had one spousal sexual or romantic partner in a lifetime?

More than a few people.

• gay, lesbian or bisexual people in same-sex romantic or sexual partnerships in most parts of the world, including those with families
• people whose life or committed partnerships are platonic or affectionate friendships, same-sex or opposite-sex, not romantic or sexual marriages
• people under the legal age to marry
• those who are or who have been married and who did not or have not found all or any of those things within their marriages
• rape or incest survivors, when others or culture class rape as sex
• those who have been married and were abandoned by their spouse
• couples who are not yet married, and intend to marry but are sexual together now
• those who are married to someone who has extra

School districts have a list of policies that are to be followed in the case that something happens that endangers one or more students, teachers, or faculty members. These policies range in degree from detentions, to in and out of school suspensions, through a student no longer being permitted to attend the school district.

Mike Huckabee has recently be taken to task for his positions on the transmission and treatment of AIDS.

Attention Scarleteen Readers 18+ and eligible to vote in the US: Election Day is Tuesday, November 6. If it is an election year for your jurisdiction, please head out to the polls on Tuesday to cast your ballot. It's a quick-and-easy way to make a difference, as well as a right and responsibility of being a citizen. The right to choose and access to accurate, inclusive sex education are two major issues that Scarleteen is all about.