Image: happyplaytime.com/ Shouldn’t there be an app for that?Tech2 reported on Monday that Apple has removed an app called “HappyPlayTime” from the iTunes store. The app is described on the HappyPlayTime blog as “a sex education game whose aim is to eliminate the stigma around female masturbation,” and it does so by guiding the player… Read more »
Image from http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/sexandhistory/ Sex and History in Exeter Professors at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom are convincing students aged 14-19 that learning about history is fun and sex ed doesn’t have to be awkward. History professor Kate Fisher and classicist Dr. Rebecca Langlands have created the Sex and History project, which uses historical… Read more »
Separate, but why? In the March 13 issue of TIME magazine, Camille Paglia argued that there are real biological and social differences between boys and girls, and that sex ed classes should be sex-specific in order to address those issues properly. However, a 2014 meta-analysis by Pahlke, Hyde, and Allison comparing academic outcomes of 1.6… Read more »
Every year, late Fall, the Center for Family Life Education hosts the National Sex Ed Conference. This year’s Conference, in case you were wondering, is December 11-13, 2013, at the Sheraton Meadowlands, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Educators from all over the country, and even the globe, come to this Conference – the largest conference… Read more »
Taken at the National Sex Ed Conference 2012 with former Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders.Get your copy here.
Published on Dec 6, 2012 An interview with Bill Taverner, Exec. Dir. of the Center for Family Life Education. We explore the challenges of teaching sex education to children both in and out of school K-12. Follow MCNOW_NJ’s YouTube channel at:http://www.youtube.com/user/MCNOWNJ?feature=watch
The Sed Ed Starter Kits have been packaged and sent out, a compendium of knowledge bound to make any sex educator squee with joy. We have had many review the work, but now, it is your turn. Tell us, how do you use your Sex Ed Starter Kit? With which population/target audience do you work?… Read more »
Note the study’s chart incorrectly lists the URLs forPAMF and Sex, Etc. The correct URLS are, respectively, www.pamf.org/teen and www.sexetc.org The journal Clinical Pediatrics recently published a study evaluating the different sexual health information websites for adolescents. They evaluated almost 30 such websites on five criteria: “authority” (i.e., legitimacy, credentialing, etc.), “interactivity,” “usability,” and “educational content”. The… Read more »
by Melissa Keyes DiGioia,CSE & Jessica Shields, CHES “Through play we learn to recognize patterns in the world around us and develop our own understanding as well as shared understanding with others.”1 Like other sexuality educators we were initially unaware of the potential of this medium as a teaching strategy. When we presented games, we recognized… Read more »
Charlie Glickman by Charlie Glickman Last [month], the Center for Family Life Education (CFLE) hosted the Sex Ed Conference and it was an amazing time! There’s nothing like a few hundred sex educators sitting around, sharing tips, and telling stories. Although my work focuses on working with adults while many of my colleagues work… Read more »
by Marty Klein I was recently interviewed by internet safety expert Dr. Larry Magid for a piece on kids looking at porn. We had such an interesting conversation I thought I’d write about this myself. Of course, 700 words can’t possibly cover every aspect of this issue. But let’s begin. Given the typical danger-oriented media… Read more »
By David M. Hall (CNN) – During the final Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, Rick Santorum was asked how he would respond if his son told him he was gay. “I would love him as much as I did the second before he said it,” Santorum responded. He received applause for this statement, which… Read more »
By Alethea Thompson Sexual Health Educator, Planned Parenthood of Central and Greater Northern New Jersey Sex Education can be eye-opening to high school students, as well as college students. I feel students relate to music more often. There is a video that I have had the opportunity to see several times. My daughter, who is 22,… Read more »
The current issue of the American Journal of Sexuality Education is a special, themed issue on abstinence. One of the articles, “Abstinence, Sex, and Virginity: Do They Mean What We Think They Mean?” by Jason Hans and Claire Kimberly, includes an analysis of what teens and professionals mean by “sex” and “abstinence”. Below is the abstract and selected… Read more »
by Alie Kriofske Mainella IndependenceFirst, Milwaukee, WI I was lucky enough to attend my first ever NationalSex Ed Conference in New Jersey last month and I learned so much. I work with young people with disabilities and a big part of my job is teaching boundaries and personal space, healthy relationships, safe dating and sexuality for… Read more »
by Robie H. Harris How lucky was I to be able to be at and attend workshops at and be the opening keynote speaker at the CFLE’s 2011 National Sex Ed Conference! Very lucky! Despite the horrendous rain storm on Wednesday night, people arrived and were full of great questions after my keynote, in which… Read more »
By Megara Bell, Partners in Sex Education The best workshop that I went to at CFLE’s National Sex Ed Conferencewas one that I didn’t even intend to go to. A workshop that I couldn’t have predicted would be as interesting or as relevant as it was. I passed Matthew Morales on my way to another… Read more »
by Cindy Lee Alves Although I have heard many great things about Bill Taverner and the CFLE in the past, this was my first time attending their National Sex Ed Conference. I attended not only the entire conference, but a pre-conference workshop (“Sex Ed Games that Teach” with Melissa Keyes DiGioia & Jessica Shields, CHES),… Read more »
by Amy Kramer, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy “These are my people.” That’s what I thought as soon as I walked in to the CFLE’s National Sex Ed Conference. It was the first time I’d been to this annual event, though hopefully not the last. Not only was I able to… Read more »
by Jennifer Hill, The College of New Jersey CFLE’s National Sex Ed Conference was the most useful, engaging, and interesting professional sex ed conference I have ever attended. Okay, full disclosure: it’s the first sex ed conference I have ever attended. Unlike many the attendees there, I am new to the sex ed professional world. … Read more »
