Category Archives: Education

Channel 4’s Sex Ed Show: Clever, Cute, and Why Can’t We Embed It?

The sharp folks at Channel 4 has been running The Sex Education Show since September. Those of us outside the UK can watch on YouTube or on their website, but we can’t share the sex ed as freely as we ought to be able to: no embedding. Come on! This is the kind [...]

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My “expert” is your girlfriend, or, the wide, wide gap between selling & doing sexpertise

(Photo: tank top in Thailand, by Dust Mason)
In her new paper, Consciousness-raising 2.0: Sex Blogging and the Creation of a Feminist Sex Commons, Elizabeth Wood of Sex in the Public Square argues for the value of women’s personal blogging about sex. Those 1970’s “consciousness-raising” groups, designed to bring women together to share stories, find common [...]

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It takes 30K users to get good press (and get tested)

inSpot, the service that lets you send anonymous ecards to past partners you may have exposed to an STI, has hit 30,000 users and a burst of really fair press. Where once there was disbelief — that anyone would ever send a message through a web app about infectious risk to someone they’d slept with [...]

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Variations on a theme

(If someone had told me that I could have met Ira Glass — here, with Sex, Etc. — in the course of doing sex ed as a teenager…)
Harald zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize last week for his work drawing the connection between the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer. In isolating the [...]

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Bravely Into the AIDS Space

From an award-winning ad campaign from France: “Explore. Just protect yourself.” (via Broadsheet)

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HOWTO: Be A Camgirl, Camboy, Camwhore, Or What Have You

One from the vaults, to keep you warm while Sexerati HQ moves. Bless you all, and thanks for a year of smart sex.
Taking for granted that you’ve got a computer, an Internet connection, and a desire to be a (little) sexxxy in (sort of) public (hey, you’re reading this), here’s my quickest, dirtiest tutorial on [...]

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Recycled Condoms as HIV/AIDS Risk - Hoax, or No?

Chinese state media (I know, reputable) report that condoms being recycled into hairbands are posing an HIV/AIDS transmission risk. Really? HIV/AIDS can only live outside of the human body for at most 15 days in highly-controlled laboratory settings, and fluids lose 90-95% of their viral load through exposure to air. For HPV, [...]

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Abstinence Only “Education,” from .gov to YouTube

Via Voices of American Sexuality, a PSA from government-run 4parents.gov, with a whole raft of young people just begging their parents to teach them to wait until marriage to have sex:

Jenna Bush notwithstanding, of course.

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Speaking & Teaching Sex Outside the Bubble

The challenge with the democratization of media-making has been just that: you know, democratization, getting voices and stories from outside the social media saturated echo chamber (San Francisco, New York, hello) out into the Great World Beyond. Which might be why finding a show like The Midwest Teen Sex Show is still shocking:

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Newsflash: Sex Ed More Than Diagrams, Directions, Disease

A study out of Melbourne University, polling the usual captive audience of young people — this time, those who’ve received sex education in Victoria — finds (unsurprisingly) that:
Many appeared to be crying out for sex education that went further than the standard biology and risk prevention.
“If they did get sexuality education it was mostly focused [...]

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