Category Archives: State of Sex Ed

HOWTO: Put A Condom On (A Pretty Wooden Dildo)

(Created by Sex Out Loud, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student group, found via The Isthmus Daily Page.)

Bad (Sex) Education

I don’t mean to be on a kick of documenting the “stupid” of sex, but some quotes, you just can’t let slide when they float across your newsreader:
“I never had a class in my life on that and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out,” board member Bill Schumacher said at Monday’s [...]

Art + Ladies + Liquor Are Coming to You

Sexerati fave and tartstar Molly Crabapple is touring the East Coast early in 2007, bringing with her the cabaret/artschool collision that is Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, where participants can get properly soused (or caffeinated) whilst sketching beautifully barely-clad models in a slightly salacious environment that puts the life (and then some) back into “life modeling.”

Molly [...]

Blogging the Sex Classroom

These human sexuality students at George Mason University are keeping a group blog “devoted to the thoughts, feelings, and insights” during their class experience together this Fall. With the semester nearly done, there’s lots to read back on.
Some favorite quotes, why not, to give us a little faith in the small revolutions in sex [...]

Not Staying the Sexual Course: Majority of Americans Favor Comprehensive Sex Ed

Forbes reports on a study out in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine:

Regardless of their political leanings, the majority of American adults (80.4 percent) favors a balanced approach to sex education in schools, including teaching children about both abstinence and other ways of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, [...]