The National Sex Ed Week of Action starts on Monday, September 20 and runs through Sunday, September 26. This year, the action week is all about promoting comprehensive sex education and ending harmful abstinence-only programs. The goals of the National Week of Action are: Gather grassroots support to celebrate PREP sex ed funding and show… Read more »
by Robin Slaw I recently ran into a CNN article about teen use of text talk. It was a pretty scary article, one that would make me afraid of what my teens were doing if I wasn’t fairly savvy about social media and texting. It’s the kind of article that my 77-year-old mother will forward… Read more »
This month, The CFLE will be concentrating on posts with a theme of “Back To School”. We’re starting off with this wonderful post by Dr. Marty Klein, reprinted with permission from his blog at sexualintelligence.wordpress.com. As we launch children into the world, whether as educators sending our students on to their next school or next… Read more »
by Alethea Thompson Lincoln Heights is one of my favorite American drama series to watch with my family… and by myself! The show is about a police officer, Eddie Sutton, who moves his African American family back to the inner-city neighbor where he grew up. He struggles to balance safety and happiness and to teach… Read more »
“You Do What?” Small Talk with Colleen Lord “Who knew the what do you do question could cause so much thought?” “You get home pretty early… you must work nearby, right?” I was standing on my front lawn making small talk with my neighbor. We just moved into our new home a few months ago… Read more »
by Robin Slaw and Nicole Gallo We are Nicole Gallo, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University, interning at Planned Parenthood this summer, and Robin Slaw, a sexual health educator with Planned Parenthood. After a discussion about the premiere of Jersey Shore last week, we wanted to write an article about alcohol and sex and how… Read more »
by Orlando Perez, CFLE Male Health Educator The Male Health Educator Training Institute is an annual intensive week-long seminar sponsored by the Federal Office of Family Planning in Washington, DC, to support the continuing commitment to male reproductive health. The Institute is designed to provide health educators across the nation with a comprehensive knowledge of… Read more »
by Robin Slaw Monday evenings for the last few weeks have been a bit exciting in our house. My daughters and I are avid watchers of the ABC Family drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, after which we have long and sometimes vehement conversations about those American Teenagers and how they are living… Read more »
The Center for Sex Education (CSE) has exciting news about its annual fall conference, scheduled for November 18th and 19th in Somerset, NJ! This year’s two day conference will feature exciting keynote addresses by Dr. Paul Joannides, author of the Guide to Getting It On, Leslie Walker-Hirsch, M. Ed., co-creator of the CIRCLES curriculum series,… Read more »
by Colleen Lord Ringgggggg, ringgggggggggggg! RIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGGG! That’s the sound of our doorbell ringing off the hook. The kids I see at our center have a habit of pressing and holding down the bell…repeatedly…even if they’ve only been waiting a short while. It’s a daily afternoon ritual; the sound is as pleasant as nails on a… Read more »
by Melissa Keyes DiGioia Today marks the last day of the national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month. President Obama’s proclamation recognizes important aspects of a person’s sexual self: sexual orientation and gender identity. In order to gain some perspectives on these important areas of sexuality education, I spoke with an expert, Lis… Read more »
In Part Two of my interview with my nephew Joe, we explore resources available to GLBTQ teens. My saucy sister Loretta (aka Retta), joined in on the interview to give her perspective on Joe coming out. Read on…. Me: Hey Joe!And Retta! Me: Happy day after graduation, Joe! Joseph: lol thanks Me:So we left off… Read more »
In honor of Father’s Day, we thought it would be nice to highlight the health care available to men at our Planned Parenthood clinics. The following interview was conducted with a PPGNNJ Clinic Supervisor and staff nurse. Questions were collected by Robin Slaw, Sexual Health Educator with the Center for Family Life Education, based on… Read more »
For those that missed my nephew Joe’s blog post last week, he talked about his experience using Facebook as a means to come out. The following is the letter that Joe sent out to his friends and family and an interview that Joe and I had yesterday. It seemed fitting since Joe came out on… Read more »
Last year, Time ran an article in June, during Pride Month, about coming out on Facebook. (See the article here.) In brief, the article discusses how facebook and other social networks have placed the burden of discovery on our “friends” and “followers” easing the burden on the individual to go through the exhaustive process of… Read more »
I attended my first Gay Pride in New York City on June 28, 2009, the year that the LGBTQ community commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It was a typical hot summer day on Hudson Street in the Village. I was scared, excited, worried and surprised all at once because though I had… Read more »
*Note – this submission was submitted by the sexually smarter and CFLE facebook page admin. Why? After talking to Robin about her post “Young Sexpots” – I was reminded of a similar instance my mom faced and wanted to share – plus after doing the editing, posting, linking and typing things like “coordination yimmlefish” to… Read more »
by Robin Slaw I’ve been pondering the nature of sexuality lately, and in particular what that means to me as the mother of three adolescents. Recently, one of my daughters brought her laptop over to show me a video of some eight- and nine-year-old girls dancing to “Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It)” by… Read more »
Reporting Live from Sweden: Bill Taverner (Where in the World is Bill Taverner?)On Sunday I visited a local Swedish library in search of some free wi fi. It was difficult to find an open table where I could work, since the library was packed. I was surprised, because it was a Sunday. Now that I… Read more »
By Bill Taverner I am in Stockholm, Sweden for the next week, joining Dr. Julie Wilgen, who is here on sabbatical from the University of Delaware, to study sex ed. Both Dr. Wilgen and I were asked by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education to give a 2-hour lecture on Sex Ed in America. (2… Read more »
