Shame as a Public Health Issue

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.

For years, safer sex advocates have been saying that self-esteem has a huge effect on how much people engage in risk-reduction and harm-reduction behaviors. That’s why many of the most effective intervention programs & organizations, whether online like Scarleteen.com or in-person like the StopAIDS Project, offer counseling and support, in addition to information.

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Are We Too Afraid to Deal With STIs?

There’s a great piece on HuffPo about our continuing reluctance to deal with preventing sexually transmitted infections. Here’s the opening:

Among the many vital health issues not addressed by healthcare reform is the state of our sexual health. There are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections in the United States each year according to the Centers for Disease Control. What does our government spend to prevent this pandemic? One

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Spiderman Offers Sex Advice (back in 1976)

Via Erosblog.com

Back in 1976, everybody’s favorite webslinger (well, everyone but J. Jonah Jameson, the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, the Kingpin and other baddies), teamed up with Planned Parenthood to offer some safer sex advice to the kiddies. While some of the info is out of date (like “A doctor can cure [VD] with a few shots”), much… Read the rest

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