Mar 21, 2013
It is bitter irony that HIV/AIDS ushered in the opportunity to wake up sex education and turn it into something debated at the highest levels. It is one of the biggest losses for sex education that we seem to be losing the battle when it comes to sustaining the momentum of safe sex over time. What constitutes a sex education failure? A failure is when HIV rates are down because of HIV tests, but other...
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Sex Education Against Complacency
Mar 3, 2013
Who still remembers the Joe Jackson song “Nineteen Forever”, which speaks of 19 as the ideal age, mature enough to take on the world but before it all gets complicated? I recall listening to it incessantly at that particular age, knowing I’d be looking back one day and sighing. I was somewhat grown up when I was 19, not like Justin Bieber who, as far as I’m concerned, will be 15 forever. But...
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19 Forever (God help the post-pubescents)
Oct 23, 2010
It may seem logical to think that talking sex to young adolescents encourages their sexual activity. Well, it isn’t. What sex educators have been saying for years has once again been confirmed by a large study undertaken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Sex education proved to delay the beginning of sexual intercourse, for both girls and boys. When measured at age 15, girls...
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Sex Education Does Delay Intercourse
Jul 27, 2010
If you are in high school today, the sex education might be good (which is the case in much of Europe, certain parts of the developing world and small pockets in North America) or it could be inadequate, usually when politically or religiously motivated to educate towards abstinence. If you were in high school in the 1970′s or earlier, chances are your sex education was simply non-existent. Myths of...
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Back to School for Mid-Life Sex Education
Dec 28, 2009
Imagine if all your experience with coffee was instant coffee. Perhaps even three different brands of instant coffee. One is decaf, one is granulated and the third is so old that it has settled into the corner of the container for life. You may enjoy a cup when you really need a wake up, or when a hot drink all you can think of. You may even think you know what coffee is all about, because you’ve had a...
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Teaching the Options
