Category Archives: State of Sex Ed

And now the media not being totally freaked out that teens use the Internet for sex ed

A rare little bright wet spot in media coverage of teen sexuality, sex ed, and the internet: Scarleteen and the Midwest Teen Sex Show get fair mentions in this ABC-Chicago “special report” (remember when those used to come on the late evening news and you just knew they were going to be about bad things?). [...]

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Porn, condoms, trouble

Miss Calico, a BDSM porn performer and sex worker advocate, points to a adult film director Ernest Greene’s reponse to the coverage of a reported HIV case among US porn performers. When it comes to porn, notions of privacy, confidentiality, and rights get secondary play over outdated and just flat wrong figures on how hugely [...]

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More on the tech sex ed front: The Birds and The Bees line, a service advertised on MySpace, where adult sex educators can answer teens’ questions via text. Predictably conservatives are throwing anger around on the premise that the program is run without teens needing permission from their parents to participate. Which is precisely the [...]

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Karen Rayne & Karen Kreps Let Teens Self-Savvy: An Interview on Sex Ed Online

Sex @ SXSW is in its own full-swing: Sexerati has landed, been conservative for no decent reason about giving out promotional buttons (ask me for one!), and has had a chance to even bump into some of these fine panelists. Here’s the last in this interview series, a two-for-one with the co-presenters of Sex Ed [...]

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Judith Levine, on the teen sexting panic (that also wasn’t)

From her column at American Prospect, some smart cold water to throw on the the latest technological bogeyman, the mobile phone: “The sexual dangers to youth, online or off, may be less than we think. Yet adults routinely conflate friendly sex play with hurtful online behavior…[e.g.] the San Francisco-based Family Violence Prevention Fund, which calls [...]

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Porn comes all over TED’s face

Seriously, what’s going on at TED?  A site called makelovenotporn.com was launched there today, which, aside from the ridiculously presumptuous name posing porn and love as oppositional, is just the kind of shoddy deconstruction of porn one might expect from someone who has already decided that porn is a monolith that can be deconstructed at [...]

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Missed connections infoporn

Condensed and sorted state-by-state: craigslist Missed Connections USA. Separate maps were made for w4m, m4w, w4w, and m4m. (via Metafilter)

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Still more time to sex::tech

There’s still a few more days to submit an abstract to sex::tech — the deadline has been extended to January 15th.
Also for your consideration: Audacia Ray has rounded up more sex, tech, and feminist media conferences — four this spring alone. (Video above by Wreck and Salvage)

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A 3-D clitoral antidote to hippie sex illustrations

A few of the Channel 4/Sexperience videos are now available to embed. This one above, on the female orgasm, has a very pretty anatomical model of the internal clitoris. Far less self-consciously groovy-feeling than the material on the same formerly only gleaned from sneaking looks at the 1970 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.

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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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