I’m sure that last week many of you followed the sex ed story of the week that went massively viral about @AliceDreger, the mother who live tweeted her son’s sex ed class. I first saw the story on Vox. This story was pretty fantastic, I have to admit. I followed along, read with the tweets. They […]
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Condom Week: The KuKluxKlan, meth labs, and AK-47s
While we’re on the topic of condoms, I want to take a moment to address the issue of public perception. Sexuality education and sexual health are both often relegated to the back room of a red light district sex worker studio. Not that there’s anything wrong with the back room of a red light district […]
How to do sex ed, NYC style
One of the most common questions I get from parents is how to start the conversation with their kids about sex. I was recently on a little vacation in New York City, and because I rarely take a mental vacation even if I’m taking a physical vacation, I took pictures of a few items of […]
Say No to Crazy, Yes to Legal Rights!
There is a video making the Internet rounds of a crazy woman giving an anti-LGBTQ rant at a Lincoln, Nebraska city council meeting. And I assure you, it is well worth watching for the utter hilarity of figuring out how she ties together the television show Winter Wipeout, “orgyers,” Whitney Houston’s death, Hillary Clinton’s lesbian […]
Teaching about the media
There are many people talking loudly about how over-sexualized, inappropriate, highly suggestive the media is at all times and in all places. This outreach tends to focus specifically on women and female representations. There is currently a video making the rounds on Facebook and in other places stressing just these things, along with a discussion […]
The problem with photoshop
I’ve been talking a lot about media recently, so I’m just going to go with that and keep it up. There is just so much to say on the topic that once I get going it’s hard to stop. Last week I presented my new group of college students with their Sexuality in the Media […]
Sexaulity in the Media Wednesday!
This is the last of the SiM Wednesdays for a little while. But it’s a really, really good one. This image comes from one of my online students. She was looking at what the media portrays as beautiful. She was annoyed by what she found – that most of the images of beauty look very […]
Dynamite by Taio Cruz
This song took much of my classroom attention last week. In each of my three college classes we watched the music video. Dynamite is a relatively well-known, currently popular song. Most of my college students had heard it, many of them had danced to it in the clubs. But only one or two had seen […]
Suicides and tears
Today was a very emotional day in my college class. The topic was sexual orientation, which is generally a fun, thoughtful day where we pick apart the differences in ways of defining and understanding sexual attraction. Today I raced us through that part of the class so I could devote a substantial portion to a […]
Yearbook Mayhem!!
Welcome to the end of the school year, when everyone from Kindergarten through High School is counting down the days or hours until they’re “Free, free!!!!” If they’re a high school student living in Pflugerville, a little suburb north of Austin, however, they may also be trying to contend with some typical media-caused frenzy over […]
