I am ready for people to start looking over my website. I still have some tinkering to do, but over all I am quite pleased with it. Please pass on any thoughts/comments/questions you have! And please pass on the URL to anyone you think might be interested.
http://adolescentsexualitytoday.googlepages.com
Archives for April, 2007
My new website!
What early sex education means
In order for sex education to be all encompassing by the time a person reaches sexual maturity in adolescence, it must start early.
My five-year-old daughter knows that once a month, when the moon is half full, I have my period. She notices the moon as it changes, and often asks me on the days my [...]
Sex Education in 2008
Sex education is a highly political topics these days. The current administration has set a high priority on abstinence-only education. Other sex education strategies focus on pregnancy and STD prevention. The ways these topics are discussed (or not) with adolescents has the potential to have a serious impact on their sexuality, both [...]
Teenagers can have sex anywhere
A friend of mine from junior high school came from a very conservative Catholic family. She was not so conservative, or so Catholic. She started dating boys in 8th grade. Her parents were, they thought, fairly strict with her. So if she wanted to visit with boys, the boy had to [...]
Teacher at fault - students are arraigned
I am so sad for the children I am about to write about, but the adults who have responded to them make me angry at the unthinking way they responded, and also slightly nauseous because of the continuing emotional turmoil they are inflicting on the children. Here are a few facts that I know [...]
Gilbert Herdt wrote a fantastic summary of the issue with American sex education yesterday on the Voices of American Sexuality Blog. (Ignoring, of course, the blatant outrage that is abstinence-only education.)
The Trouble with Kids — Parents’ Sexual Literacy
A guest blog [...]
Will You Get an STD???
Even if you (or your child) get an STD, everything will probably be okay. I want to take Robert’s comment from a previous post, and make sure everyone read it:
The risk of a list like this is that it can over stress STDs, you want to give good information, but you don’t want to [...]
Being Perfect
The New York Times has a recent article talking about “amazing girls.” These are the girls who are padding their college resumes beginning in 7th grade. They volunteer at Habitat for Humanity, Amnesty International, and their church, they take advanced classes in foreign language, science, English, and history throughout high school, they are [...]
STD risks associated with oral sex
As a partial follow-up to yesterday’s post, here is some information on STD transmission during oral sex. First, it is very rare that HIV is transmitted through oral sex - there have been no studies on whether the risk is increased when ejaculate is swallowed. Next, here are the risks associated with giving [...]
