A group of organizations is holding a contest for the best short video by a young person. The contest focus is: Why is sex so interesting and sex ed so boring? There are already some movies submitted to the contest. You can watch them!
Here’s the text describing the contest:
Using digital video technology, [...]
Archives for October, 2007
Sex Ed Video Contest!
Parents’ sexuality
I have mentioned in the past that talking with your children about your own sexuality is generally a bad idea. However, there may be times when it is warranted.
The blog Sexuality In Art recently reviewed a graphic memoir called Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. The story is centered on Alison [...]
A suicide
On Sunday night a young man, a teenager, took his own life. He was a senior at the same school where my daughter in is Kindergarten. The outpouring of pain and love is overwhelming.
We are a relatively small community, with something like 250 families, but I did not know the young man well. [...]
Home alone or home not-alone?
The parental decision of when to start leaving kids at home alone is often fraught with anxiety. Of course, in this age of cell phones, it’s perhaps a bit easier, because the child will always be able to reach the parent. And most parents start by leaving their child home alone for short [...]
Squishing your waist, smoothing your face
The Washington Post’s technology columnist recently wrote about a new brand of camera that - you guessed it! - automatically washes away wrinkles and slims the person in the picture. Here’s what he says about the process:
When they work, both can generate a photographic likeness that looks more attractive than the real you [...]
Banning hugs and school violence
In his column a week ago, Leonard Pitts had this to say:
Sometimes — times of pain, times of commiseration, times of affection, times of joy — you just need to be held. So I was appalled to read this week about a school in Texas — Fossil Hill Middle in Fort Worth — where students [...]
Teenage circumcision
So I was blithely searching the Internet when I came across this surprising topic: teenage circumcision.
I was surprised because I understand circumcision to be a useless operation that causes a lot of pain for absolutely no gain. No, it’s nowhere near as bad as female genital mutilation. But there just doesn’t seem to [...]
Dove Video - Onslaught
This is an intense video, but really gets it’s point across in a very visceral way.
Do you think it detracts from the video and the point it gets across that it’s made by Dove? (Dove, according to a rumor at least, sells skin bleach in India.)
This American Life Episode 341: How to Talk to Kids
This weekend’s edition of This American Life is a must-listen for anyone with kids or teenagers or anyone who ever interacts with kids or teenagers. Here’s what they talk about:
A raunchy comedian gets booked on a tour…of kids’ sleep-away camps. A middle-aged woman grapples with right and wrong in talking to her teenage [...]
National Family Sexuality Education - Let’s Talk! - Month
October has been designated THE month to talk about sexuality with your family. So jump on the bandwagon, folks, and be the coolest person on your block by talking about sex with your teen!
A wide range of organizations set aside the month of October, now that everyone is settled back into their school routines, [...]
