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This piece in the New York Times documents a one-of-a-kind sex education class for teenagers at a private Friends’ high school in Philadelphia. In contrast to classes that teach students that abstinence is the only viable option (having pre-marital sex apparently just might kill them) or that teach only a handful of basics about contraception, [...]
Greetings from Tartu, Estonia! I’ll be living here for most of a year and continuing to blog for MySexProfessor.com while working on my dissertation. While traveling through the Netherlands for a few days prior to coming to Estonia, I picked up some interesting facts about sex education there. Longtime MSP readers will recall that I’ve [...]
Greetings, MSP readers! I just returned from 3 weeks in India, and I can’t wait to go back! While I was mostly occupied with sightseeing and attending talks at a conference in my home discipline, folklore, I was also attuned to what was going on with sex education and sexuality in India. Here are some [...]
According to this Time.com article, over 10% of teenagers diagnosed with some sort of sexually transmitted disease or infection, such as chlamydia, claim that they’ve never had sex. Obviously there’s something wrong with this statement.
My aunt suggested that I watch this video about how to talk to your kids about Star Wars. My reaction to this video, unsurprisingly, was to wonder if the parents in the clip would be as eager to talk to their kids about sex as they were about talking to them about Star Wars.
Talk about a movie that will make your head spin… I recently watched the film, The Education Of Shelby Knox: Sex, Lies, and Education and if sexual education is something you fancy, I highly recommend that you check this out. The 2005 documentary (directed and produced by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt) focuses on Shelby [...]
I’ve written before about how attitudes toward teen sex in the Netherlands differ from those in the U.S. Here’s a link to a visual analysis of the differences between Western European and American beliefs about sex. American media tends to construct sex as threatening and dangerous, whereas European ads reveal an acceptance of sex as [...]
I was lucky enough to get to see Dan and Bill Savage’s presentation Savage Love with Dan and Bill Savage at the Chicago Humanities Festival on Friday night. Dan Savage is the author of the advice column Savage Love and has also written several books, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, Skipping Towards [...]
A report released by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) revealed a correlation between states that endorse abstinence-only sex education and high teen pregnancy rates, while states that offer comprehensive, accurate, and evidence-based sex education tend to have lower teen pregnancy rates. Quotes from representatives of Planned Parenthood and other women’s health organizations are cautiously [...]
AAG and Scarleteen have teamed up to organize a one month long fundraising blog carnival for Scarleteen. For those not in the know, Scarleteen is a fantastic resource for teens and others who have questions about sex. If you’ve ever been to an adult site (often porn, but not always) you’ve more often than not [...]
Loading ...Longtime MSP readers will know that we are big fans of Clarisse Thorn‘s writing: she intelligently tackles important sex topics such as BDSM, sexual submission, open relationships, and sex-positivity. So we of course were super-excited when her book, Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser, came out (available on Amazon and Smashwords and in paperback). Clarisse [...]
