Earlier this month the Center for Family Life Education (CFLE) received the jubilant news that our 2012 publication, Teaching Safer Sex, 3rd Ed., Vol. 1 & 2, will receive this year’s AASECT Book Award, given by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. This award is the most prestigious one given in the field for… Read more »
Sexuality Education: Just Say Know Diane Pike is a sexuality educator with SARPHE in Northwest Indiana. Growing up, my experience of sexuality education was of the abstinence-only variety. Not only did I find it ineffective in convincing my peers and me to abstain from sex, but I also found the messages of judgment and shame… Read more »
by Bill Taverner Today we celebrate the retirement of my friend Sue Montfort. Do you know Sue? I bet you do! If you have ever taught about sexual consent, I bet you know Sue Montfort. If you have ever helped a pre-school teacher respond to a toddler’s question about sex without freaking out, I bet… Read more »
Ericka Hart Why I teach Sex Education: I’ll never forget the time my mother told me the story of watching me play ‘school’ with my teddy bears when I was about 5. She said she watched me instruct them and imitate their voices and put some in time-out for misbehaving. After watching me for some… Read more »
Jenny Caruso Senior Family Life & Sexuality Education Instructor Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program Bronx, NY (Picture taken in Kenya while providing HIV education) As a child I was terrified of public speaking. I had perfected the art of suddenly becoming sick the day of the class presentation. If I could go back in time… Read more »
Dear Colleagues, I am so happy to tell you about the newest issue of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, which just arrived in my mailbox. This is the most ambitious issue since volume 1, number 1. The table of contents is here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wajs20/current and I am also listing them below. (If I did it… Read more »
Dr. Melanie Davis has established the “First Tracks Award for Innovation in Sexology”, which recognizes individuals who not only think outside the box, but additionally do innovative work. Honest Exchange president Melanie Davis, PhD, CSE, selected Andelloux for the 2012 First Tracks Award to recognize her cutting-edge work as well as for her commitment to… Read more »
Why I Teach Sex Ed Lis Maurer The Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Services, Ithaca College Two central experiences shaped my interest in sex education. Both took place while I was a teenager and continue to fuel my passion and commitment to provide accurate sex education in ways that are useful to people. Everyone in 11th… Read more »
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 Kira Manser 1. What do you do in the field of sexuality? I am a sexuality educator, student, and community organizer. 2. Where are you based out of? I am… Read more »
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. Melanie Davis www.HonestExchange.com 1. What do you do in the field of sexuality?Like a lot of sexuality educators, I have multiple jobs that combine to create an… Read more »
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 includes interviews that originally appeared on the website of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health and is adapted and reprinted with permission. Konnie McCaffree 1. What do you do in the field of sexuality?I began my career in sexuality as a classroom teacher for 11thgraders in a Health Class connected to their physical… Read more »
As I manage this blog, and twitter, and help with Facebook… I find that people are amazing, brilliant, and beautiful. I have read some rather inspiring “Why I Teach Sex Ed” blogs, hoping that my future is as fulfilling as those individuals’ lives are. But why do I teach? Well, there are a couple of… Read more »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
This article was originally published by American Social Health Association‘s HPV News, and has appeared on the website of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health. To register for a free email subscription to ASHA’s HPV News, visit them online. and is adapted and reprinted with permission. Not Just for High School Anymore: Sex Ed Across the Lifespan Interview with Bill… Read more »
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 »
