This is from last night’s presidential debate:
Archives for October, 2008
What sexuality education is not
I love the Invisible Life of Poet. His strip from yesterday struck me as particularly relevant. I’m including it down below, but I want to talk about why it struck me first.
What this particular strip does is address the fears that adults have about sexuality education. The worry is that sex ed gives children and [...]
Thoughts on The Hurried Child
Yesterday a friend told me that she was having conversations with parents about Dr. David Elkind’s The Hurried Child and what he has to say about sexuality education. Being the voracious and insatiable reader that I am, and as influential as this book is, I ran right out and bought it.
Within 30 seconds of flipping [...]
About me and about my blog
I have come under close scrutiny recently. As a result, more people have been stopping by this blog. Some of the people who have come to read have come away with some misunderstandings about what this blog means to me, how it presents my point of view, and how to interpret my thoughts and words [...]
The 2007 GLSEN National School Climate Survey
[This post written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen]
We live in a world where more and more people are accepting of alternative lifestyles. Yet students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender still report very similar amounts of harassment and negative effects in school as they did in 1999. Recently, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education [...]
Students demanding sex ed
A particularly eloquent college student recently said to me something along the lines of, “I wish there was more sex education in schools, so there could be more safe, mind-blowing, toe-curling orgasms.” Ah, youth and it’s optimism!
I recently read about a group of Alaskan teenagers and young adults who want to increase sex education. This [...]
Misconceptions about sex
I hear a lot of misconceptions about sex. Often they come from parents, saying that they don’t want their kids to be as poorly misinformed as they were as teenagers and young adults. More often than not, teenagers and young adults don’t want to say what they do or don’t know about sex, because more [...]
