January 31, 2010 – 12:30 pm
This is just… astonishing. The UK’s Department for Children, Schools and Families just opened a three month consultation period, in which teachers, parents, health professionals, and young people are encouraged to contribute to a new in-school program to teach about sex and relationships. Country-wide. Says the DCSF:
The purpose of this consultation is to gather views [...]
January 14, 2010 – 12:44 pm
Once again, I have to invoke the awesome Dr. Petra for providing links to these amazing pamphlets put together by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education. You can open them as PDFs, and I highly recommend reading at least the one on the hymen (or ‘vaginal corona’ as they are suggesting it be renamed! I [...]
Dr. Petra, who by the way has a great informative blog on the intersections between sex, relationships, and science, has a particularly useful post for parents and other guardians on how to talk to kids about sex. Lest you think this is yet another rehash of stuff you already know, here’s an interesting tidbit:
Your child [...]
February 19, 2009 – 1:07 pm
Heather Corinna, purveyor of Scarleteen.com and sex educator extraordinaire is holding a couple of fundraisers for Scarleteen and needs your help! Sez Heather:
This month its particularly critical because we have a donor who is willing to match funds up to 3K. [And because of] our new affiliation with The Center for Sex and Culture, we [...]
Oh.My.God. There is apparently a sculpture park in Korea dedicated to sex. It is filled with huge sculptures of people doing very naughty things (among other items). I SO want to go there!!
You can read more about here and see more pictures here. We heard about it from our favorite blog Scanner.
Happy Hump Day!
searah
So, I was reading Susie Bright’s book Full Exposure for our book club next week and was thoroughly inspired by it. And the great part is, these aren’t new ideas to me. I’ve been working in and obsessing over sexuality and sex education for years and have rolled these ideas out in my head over [...]
