22 May 2012
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Photo: (MTV)

Porn. Dirty crushes. Vibrators. First love. Fetishes. Cheaters. Mastrubation. It's all in a day's work for host of MTV's "Savage U," Dan Savage. Dan's been writing a sex column, "Savage Love," for over 20 years (yup, before some of you were even born!!), produced plays, published a book, launched the anti-bullying movement It Gets Better, has a podcast and even an iPhone app. Uh yeah, homie is busy. But with all this work and success comes critics. So I asked Dan how he handles his haters.

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18 May 2012
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Photo: (Getty Images)

Calling all Kardashian dolls! This Sunday (May 20) -- finally! -- is the highly anticipated season premiere of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians"! Can you believe they are already on their seventh season? Is Kris Humphries drama all done with? And does a "Kimye" story line develop? Ooh, the suspense.

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16 May 2012
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Last night on "Savage U," Dan hit up Rhodes College, a small university in Memphis. The campus consists of less than 2,000 students so guys and girls find it really tough to avoid dating their friends’ exes. One of the students Dan met is scared to date altogether, but not because of  jealous BFF's. Allison has been through a lot since she was diagnosed with HPV in high school. Watch her story below at 13:30.

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Photo: (MTV)

During the first hour of yesterday's back-to-back "16 and Pregnant" episodes, we met Sarah -- a Georgia native whose family clashed with Blake, her baby's daddy, after he moved in. Well, in case you missed it, he moved right back out, leaving Sarah and newborn Tinleigh behind to work toward becoming a shrimp boat captain. What has Sarah taken from the whole experience? And where does she hope her career is headed? Watch after the jump!

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14 May 2012
DoSomething.org's Pregnancy Text

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We’ve all heard about pregnancy tests, but how about pregnancy . . . text?! Yup, you heard right. From May 14 through June 4, DoSomething.org is launching a unique campaign called Pregnancy Text to prevent teen pregnancy through the use of your cell phone.

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9 May 2012
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Photo: Alex (MTV)

Dan Savage took on some kinky questions at the University of Central Florida on "Savage U" last night, and with nearly 60,000 students on campus there were plenty to go around. But it wasn’t all sex toys and orgasm-talk, a bi-sexual student named Alex moved Dan so much he offered her a hug! And Dan is not a hugger.

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2 May 2012
Ryan Gosling at the "The Ides Of March" Premiere

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Today is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Yep. Up until last week, I didn’t know we had one of those either. According to The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 3 in 10 teen girls in the U.S. will get pregnant at least once before turning 20. Here are some other facts about pregnancy, pregnancy prevention, and...Ryan Gosling.

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Photo: (Agenda Magazine)

May 2 isn’t just the day after May Day. It’s also the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The teen birth rate has gone down recently and some attribute it to the "16 & Pregnant/"Teen Mom" effect, but there are still hundreds of thousands of teens having babies each year. But hey, we're not here to point a finger! We just want to give you more deets on the power of protection in bed, the sofa, wherever you are getting down -- IF you're getting down. We spoke with Farrah Abraham of “Teen Mom” to get the lowdown on what she thinks of the day and the impact she sees from the show.

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Photo: (MTV)

Dan Savage was back on his home turf of Chicago for Savage U last night and it was a sex and relationships dish session like you won’t see anywhere else. The story that really moved him (and us) was shared by Maria, a University of Illinois at Chicago student dealing with a herpes diagnosis. Watch her talk to Dan at the 11:30 mark:

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Photo: (Teen.com)

Maci Bookout never thought she’d be a teen mom, and even after she got pregnant, she never thought she’d have to be a single parent. Now she’s taking care of her son Bentley, splitting custody with his father Ryan, all while trying to get her degree. If she had one message to share with teens today, which is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, it’s that being a teen mom takes a ton of sacrifice, and there is nothing glamorous about it. Read our exclusive interview with Maci in which she talks about the most common misconception about her life as a "Teen Mom," her summer plans and her biggest struggles with Ryan.

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