“How old ARE you??”
“You have KIDS??”
“Wow, I never would have guessed.”
At this International Women’s conference, they have decided to group youth (high school) and young adults (19 through 35 years old) together into a social group they call YAYAs (Youth And Young Adults). This means that I am technically a young adult, and that my [...]
Archives for February, 2009
Today’s ruminations on age
I am at the ICUUW Conference
Yesterday I arrived in Houston for the International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women (ICUUW). I am delighted to be here with 550 or so other Unitarian Universalist women, talking about how to improve the lives of women around the world. On Saturday I will be presenting about how and why to increase the intergenerational conversations [...]
Donations for Online Comprehensive Sexuality Education
I love my work. There is no other reason for me to take such incredibly poor pay for the extensive time and energy I put into it. Sadly this is the case for most sexuality educators. While I wish we were all paid a living wage, we simply are not.
In a similar vein, I wish [...]
On becoming thin, and my story
I recently received a short e-mail from a friend. She agreed to let me post it here, in it’s entirety:
Subject: body thought
When I am happy–I eat–I gain weight.
When I am sad–I don’t eat–I lose weight.
When I am on the thin side, people compliment me all the time. When I am on the fat side, people [...]
Where has Karen been?
I apologize for my absence here and everywhere else online. This has not been a happy absence.
Very early in the morning on Friday, February 6th my cousin Craig Arriola fell backwards off his second story balcony and fractured his scull. It was thirty, forty minutes before he was found, and despite the best medical care [...]
My sex advice radio show!
Here is the recording of my Irish radio show on RedFM from last Thursday! Hooray!
If you click on the link below, another window will open and you will be able to listen to the show. It’s about 15 minutes, all in all, and well worth the listen, if I do say so myself!
Karen Rayne on [...]
New Blogroll
Hi Folks,
I’ve got a new blog roll over there on the right side fo the screen. (If you’re reading this in your e-mail or RSS reader, click onto my site. It’ll make more sense.)
You’ll notice I have the links split into two general categories - for parents/adults and for teens/preteens. These groupings are not necessarily [...]
Jar’o'Sex Questions
Below is my second episode of Jar’o’Sex questions!
Please, please, please feel free to ask me questions! And they don’t all have to be phsyical - they can be emotional and they can be about you, your kids, your relationship with your kids, your kids’ relationships with other people - whatever!
Also remember that tomorrow at 5pm [...]
How to do it: in the words of a young adult
I have recently been drawn into a conversation about teenagers, sexuality, and online activities on a massive e-mail group. The conversation was started by a father posting a link to this Daily Mail article about the excessive promiscuity and online sexual activity teenagers are regularly engaging in. I was unimpressed by the article - and [...]
