All Blog Posts Tagged 'sex' (9)

Have you heard about Revere High School and their recent decision to make birth control available at the school's health center? Well, the decision that was made this past spring might be banned. Right now, contraceptives, including condoms, are available to students who are enrolled in the center and whose parents indicate on an enrollment form that they are interested in their… Continue

I can remember being taught about HIV/AIDS in elementary school. Though much of what we were told back then (in the early 90s) was incorrect and perhaps out of panic - it was the beginning of this very important conversation. A conversation that still needs to be vocalized and more widespread today. In 2009 we still have so many people who are unaware of their risks, unsure about being tested, and not actively protecting themselves and their loved ones. This is, in part, a fault of our so… Continue

Alyssa Wulf, a linguist and co-founder of Real Reason, presented a provocative final plenary at the AASECT conference last week. (AASECT is a professional association of sexuality educators, counselors and therapists.) She began by showing how we use conceptual metaphors to make mental shortcuts, such as describing “ideas” with references to “food”: * Half-baked idea * Digest information * Chew on a thought She then explained how she investigated why people don’t push for Comprehensive Sex Ed… Continue

Richard Gregory, a prominent British neuropsychologist, estimates that visual perception is more than ninety percent memory and less than ten percent sensory nerve signals. This makes a lot of sense in sexology. So much of what turns us on and turns us off is not as much about what we are actually seeing — but about the feelings (memories) we associate with those things. This is empowering — We can change our perception of sex by creating more healthy and happy memories. David Schnarch, autho… Continue

I'm impressed with the recent increase in visibility of Plan B. Lately, the emergency contraception pill is becoming more and more visible in both television and print ads. And in a recent article I read here, the pill will now be available for 17 year olds without parental consent or prescription. This overturns the 2006 law that made Plan B unavailable to anyone under… Continue

All over the country and around the world STDs have been on the rise, but why? People believe that it's the parents fault, or the Government for not providing proper sex education in schools, or even the music and media of this time of age but really it's everyones fault including all the people that don't bother to get tested and spread the diseases around unknowingly. One of the main issues is people don't realize that there infected with a sexually transmitted disease in the first place beca… Continue

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"Beer goggles" and "coyote ugly" are terms that are used to make light of having sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but these statistics from the University of Michigan are quite sobering. Alcohol is associated with a staggering percentage of date rapes, unplanned pregnancies and STDs. Drugs and alcohol impair judgment and lower inhibitions, increasing the likelihood of risk-taking behaviors, like getting in a car… Continue

We are educating fear into our youth without giving them the tools to protect themselves. Allow me to explain. In one of the forums I frequent, there are multiple daily posts that follow about the same format: I'm on the pill and we used a condom but last week I took a pill a couple hours late and now I'm worried I might be pregnant help! Where do people get the idea that it is so easy to get pregnant? Only about 20% of people who are TRYING to get pregnant do so in the first month they… Continue