The following is a transcription of the keynote speech Bill Taverner, MA, CSE, executive director of the Center for Sex Education, made at this year’s North Carolina Sexual Health Conference. This speech is especially timely, considering that September is Sexual Health Month. Considering a career in sexual health? This post is a must-read. I want… Read more »
James C. Wadley, Ph.D., L.P.C. (PA & NJ), ACS (Founder/Editor) Dr. James Wadley is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Human Services program at The Lincoln University. As a scholar-practitioner, he is a licensed professional counselor and maintains a private practice in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is the founding editor… Read more »
Learning your ABCs…it happened so long ago, in such wonderful, family-oriented, sing-songy ways, right? I mean, surely everyone’s early childhood was filled with Sesame-Street-style-goodness? No? Hm. Well, okay then, maybe at this point at least, as adults, literacy comes easily to everyone? Wait, what? That’s not so? Okay, okay, okay, then at least we all… Read more »
Yesterday I wrote about LGBTQAI individuals being left out of safer sex conversations. They do, however, get included in many conversations about healthy relationships and more. People with special needs, however, are endemically left out of sexuality education in all ways. Today’s lesson goes a little way towards addressing that vast gap as it applies… Read more »
In continuation of our observance of National HealthcareQuality Week. I’m highlighting the second lesson in Teaching Safer Sex: Sexual Health in Prime Time. Today’s lesson has me wondering why it is that we talk so much about unhealthy sexuality without talking about healthy sexuality? The rationale for this lesson is intrinsic to everything I’m going… Read more »
What project(s) in Sex Ed are you currently working on? I am currently working on the development of a curriculum entitled Talking With Your Child About Sexuality: A Parents/Caregivers Curriculum, funded by the CDC and informed by a diverse Advisory Committee on which Bill Taverner of CFLE participated, along with a number of other distinguished scholars… Read more »
What project(s) in Sex Ed are you currently working on? I currently work for Bronx Teens Connection, an adolescent pregnancy prevention program out of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. We are a community-wide initiative to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health through 4 components: evidence-based sexual health education programs, access to high… Read more »
What project(s) in Sex Ed are you currently working on? A million things! Two of the big highlights would be starting up a new sex-ed program for an entire all-girl’s middle school and doing a lot to put LGBTQ domestic violence on the map as an issue in Rhode Island. With a healthy relationships and… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Recently, Janet Rosenzweig was interviewed by WPSU (Penn State’s public television station), discussing sex abuse prevention and promoting the sexual health and safety of children. Janet is the author of The Sex-Wise Parent. Here’s the direct link to the video: http://youtu.be/F_ENKbrYaVU To find Janet on Facebook: www.facebook.com/sexwiseparent To find Janet on Twitter: @janetrosenzweig The book… Read more »
Why I do what I do Jane Fleishman, Graduate Student, Center for Human Sexuality Studies, Widener University for the CFLE website (and for Theo) Jane Fleishman “Just what is healthy sexuality?” That was the question posed to me by my 28-year old nephew, Theo, glancing over at my business card. We had just taken in… 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 »
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. 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 »
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 »
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 »
