“Thank you, thank you!” for Teaching Safer Sex

This past weekend, Teaching Safer Sex, Third Edition, Volumes One and Two received the AASECT Book Award, a prestigious honor given by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Editor-in-Chief Bill Taverner and Associate Editor Susan Milstein were on hand to receive the award at the 2013 AASECT Conference in Miami, Florida. Associate editor (and recently retired Planned Parenthood educator) Sue Montfort was not… Read more »

Why I Teach Sex Ed: Finding My Assertive Voice

Finding My Assertive Voice  Jean WorkmanFamily Life and Sexuality Content SpecialistChildren’s Aid Society-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program Brittany was a “Goth girl” with jet black hair, black fingernails and black attire.  She had a chip on her shoulder the size of a boulder.  On the first day of group I asked the girls to share one… Read more »

Profiling Great Sexuality Educators: Dr. Elizabeth Schroeder

Profiling Great Sexuality Educators includes interviews that originally appeared on the website of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health and is adapted and reprinted with permission. Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Schroeder 1.  What do you do in the field of sexuality?I’m the executive director of Answer, a national sexuality education organization that provides and promotes comprehensive sexuality… Read more »

Profiling Great Sexuality Educators: Chris White, PhD.

Profiling Great Sexuality Educators includes interviews that originally appeared on the website of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health and is adapted and reprinted with permission. Chris White, PhD. 1. What do you do in the field of sexuality?I do many things, but first and foremost, I’m a sexuality educator and have been for the past eighteen… Read more »

Why I Teach Sex Ed: Knowledge is Power

I am a firm believer the knowledge is power. Rachael Carlevale Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains www.pprm.org I am a firm believer that knowledge is power. Teaching comprehensive, medically accurate, age appropriate sex education: healthy relationships, contraception, pregnancy options- that knowledge is LIFE SAVING power.  I feel as a sex education instructor, I am enabling students to make… Read more »

Profiling Great Sexuality Educators: Dr. Debby Herbenick

Profiling Great Sexuality Educators includes interviews that originally appeared on the website of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health and is adapted and reprinted with permission. On February 8th, the CSPH brought you Dr. Debby Herbenick (http://www.MySexProfessor.com/), and for an encore, here she is again! 1.  What do you do in the field of sexuality? I research, teach and write… Read more »

Why I Teach Sex Ed: The Breaking Point

Adrian Adekola Community Educator Planned Parenthood of WI Why do I teach sexuality education? I choose to teach it for a multitude of reasons. Sexuality isn’t simply about whom you prefer to be intimate with or how one chooses to express themselves. It is something that continuously evolves from the time a woman is told… Read more »

What does yours look like?

I can remember in high school (for me, 2000 – 2004… yes, I know) my German textbooks still had Germany as “West” & “East”. The language didn’t change, but… still… So, if your “current” edition of “Teaching Safer Sex” looks like this (albeit a sold-out edition): …You may wish to consider the new, expended 2-volume… Read more »

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Retirement Doesn’t Mean “Stop having sex…”: A PSA for Sexually Active Seniors

First, I highly recommend watching the PSA:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pfa07ijUCE&noredirect=1 Now let’s think about this: why are seniors having higher sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates? Well, when they were young “whippersnappers”, at least 40-45 (for those around age 65 now) years ago, were sex ed and sexuality education as comphrensive as they are now? Not nearly. And, it was… Read more »

Why I Teach Sex Ed: Family Matters

Alison Bellavance. M.Ed. Director of Education & Professional Training Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County & Planned Parenthood of Northeast & Mid-Penn As the big sister to no less than seven siblings, I fell into the role of teacher at a very young age. I read to them, held their hands when we crossed the… Read more »

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Thoughts from the CSE…

  As a page administrator for the CSE, I am made privy to some stats about the page, in particular, who is visiting.   So… who is visiting the CSE’s page? Of the 459 people “liking” us, 74% are female-identified, and 21% are male-identified. Of those female-identified individuals, the majority are between the ages of… Read more »

A New Era of Teaching Safer Sex!

by Bill Taverner Both volumes of the preliminary draft of Teaching Safer Sex, 3rd ed. are now in the hands of our editorial advisory board, as well as other experts in sexuality education, and our copyeditor.  So for the first time since I dove into this project full-force a year ago, I am finding myself trying… Read more »