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Over on the Good Vibrations Magazine, I received a comment from a woman whose husband travels a lot. The two of them have a non-monogamous relationship and she’s had some difficulty finding casual partners:
I wanted to address your concept of having casual sex in a positive fashion, and how difficult that seems to be, especially for men. It’s a paradox…most men seem to choose casual sex because they don’t want to have to deal with “relationship” stuff, but if you’re sleeping with someone on a regular basis, you’re having a relationship, albeit one that leads to the bedroom and not the altar. It’s much more difficult to have casual sex than a committed relationship: it takes honesty, openness, integrity and an extremely high degree
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One of the easiest ways for product manufacturers to promote their wares is by convincing you that there’s research behind their goods. After all, unless you know how to read research, you might not do a little digging and check the facts. It gets even more confusing when news outlets pick up on the latest PR “research” and announce it as if it’s the same as a peer-reviewed study from an academic or research institution.
Sometimes, that happens because the news folks simply don’t know the difference. Sometimes, it’s because the 24-hour news cycle encourages people to report things as quickly as possible, which precludes fact checking. And sometimes, they really don’t care because they want to sell advertising more than they want to
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Debra Haffner is a minister and sexologist who I know through the American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors & Therapists. She’s also the author of some great books:
From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know: Facing Today’s Challenges with Wisdom and Heart Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens from Middle School to High School and Beyond.
Check her writing out. She’s fabulous.
In addition to all of that, Debra is also the Executive Director of The Religious Institute, a “multifaith organization dedicated to advocating for sexual health, education and justice in faith communities and society.” They just launched an amazing database that compiles the official positions of
Continue reading What Do Modern Religions Have to Say About Sex?
This showed up in my tumblr feed today. It’s from the UC Davis LGBT Center and according to their site, you’re welcome to download it and pass it along.
Clipped from: ohmegan.com by clp.ly
I get a lot of calls and emails from people who want to become sex educators and I’m always really happy to help people figure out where to get the training they need. But it can be tricky because there are many paths that people take to become sex educators and many different ways of working int he field. Fortunately, the amazing Megan Andelloux has an amazing article on her site (reprinted below with permission) that covers most of the options.
So, You want to be a Sexuality Educator?
How does one become a Sexuality Educator? Is it really a legitimate field of study? Can I get a degree in Human Sexuality? It can be a pretty confusing road
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One of the most common pieces of advice that you’ll ever hear about sex is “communicate with your partner(s)”. And while that sounds good, it can be difficult to follow. Almost everyone has ways in which talking about sex brings up challenges. Perhaps you don’t have the language to ask for what you want. Or you’re worried about how your partner might react. Or that if you ask for what you want, it will mean something about you. Or you fear rejection. Or that you feel shame for your desires. Or maybe, simply that you’ve had unpleasant experiences when you’ve tried talking about sex and that makes it harder to bring up again.
If we want to develop happy sex lives, we need to be
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Some fabulous folks are developing a resource guide for transgender and gender-variant people, modeled on the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves and they’re looking for people to take an online survey. If you’re transgender/genderqueer, or if you’re a parent or partner of someone who is, click on the link below and help this amazing project.
And please pass the info along to anyone who might be interested in it.
Hi everyone,
I’m editing a book and would love your help finding transgender/genderqueer people, as well as their parents and partners for a survey. The answers will appear as quotes in the book, similarly to Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Want to be part of a resource guide for transgender and other gender-variant people?
Trans Bodies, Trans
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One of the most common challenges people face when seeking psychotherapy or other mental health/emotional support is the concern that a therapist will judge them or shame them for their sexual fantasies, desires, and expression. Unfortunately, this often keeps people from finding a therapist or it keeps them from opening up and being honest about what’s going on. Both of those are major barriers.
For a few years, I co-taught a class on sexuality for people studying to become therapists (my co-teacher was a therapist, so she dealt with the clinical issues while I handled the sexuality issues) and one of the things that we always talked about was the fact that many clients are hesitant to bring up sexuality concerns. Unfortunately, many therapists
Continue reading What Psychology Professionals Need to Know About Polyamory
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The Guttmacher Institute has just released a report that shows that worldwide increases in contraception use between 1995-2003 led to a reduction in the number of unintended pregnancies and therefore abortions. Now, that seems pretty obvious to me, but there’s some backstory to this.
At the same time that contraception has become more widely available, there has also been a global trend towards reducing restrictions on abortions. According to the report, while the abortion rate follows the trends in unintended pregnancies, it isn’t really affected by the legal status of abortion. In fact, “abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in regions where it is broadly legal and in regions where it is highly restricted. The key difference is safety—illegal, clandestine abortions cause significant harm to
Continue reading Breaking News from the Research Front: Contraception Decreases Abortion Rates
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