Yep, here’s a real treat folks. Marvel Comics and Planned Parenthood teamed up in 1976 to publish a comic book on safe sex. The villain is an alien who wants teenagers to pop out babies so he can steal them and take them back to his home planet as slaves. To further [...]

I am delighted to say that I am back from vacation, renewed and refreshed, and ready to dive back in to the daily fray.
One of the places I went on vacation was a Unitarian Universalist family church camp. This is a place I have gone for many years, and I saw many old friends [...]

I want to speak more on the response to my last post. My youngest daughter trusted me and felt that she could make an agreement with me and then honor that agreement. How did that come about? It is possible that my older daughter also trusted me - she also made an [...]

Dr. Robert Wm. Blum was online with the Washington Post on Tuesday, May 16, at 11 a.m. ET to field questions and comments about risk and protective factors associated with sexually active teenagers. You can read the whole column here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/05/12/DI2006051201149.html One of the questions and answers is:
Cambridge, Mass.: Why is it [...]

When I was a child and young adolescent, I had several very inappropriate experiences with significantly older youth and with men. This was pretty hurtful to me. I ended up acting out sexually, promiscuously. I think there was connection, but who knows? I was in the time period of drug, sex, [...]

The New York Times had an article by Stephanie Rosenbloom called “A Show of Hands” on 10/5/06 (it can no longer be read online without subscribing).
Some of what she said is that “Nowadays hand-holding has attracted the interest of scientists who are studying its effects on the body and mind. And sexual health educators [...]

Children and adolescents gather information from watching the adults around them. The Sexuality Infomation and Education Council of the United States (http://www.siecus.org/) has compiled a list of Life Behaviors of a Sexually Healthy Adult. Reading this list, I think an adult (or child, or adolescent) who is exhibiting these behaviors is healthy in more ways [...]

My experience as a parent of an adolescent is that the sexuality stuff was so scary to me that it was hard to even begin to talk with my girls about it. I think I had the ‘normal’ experience of a parent with two kids - one was easier and one was harder, but [...]

Folks, I am going on vacation. It’s been so long since I went on vacation and left all of my work behind me, I can’t even say when the last time was. It was certainly not in the last two years, and probably even longer. I didn’t even take off more than two days [...]

There is a big problem with this commercial. Most teenagers - most people I expect - would see this commercial and believe it, but be unwilling to apply it’s message to their sexual partners.
Without substantial conversation, this commercial just wouldn’t influence many people’s actions. Convincing teenagers that their partners might - gasp! - [...]