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Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics. Sex Ed, Kids, Old People, and People with Disabilities. Sex Education. Sex Respect: Abstinence Education Curriculum.

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Controversial Topics

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  1. Controversial Topics Sex Ed, Kids, Old People, and People with Disabilities

  2. Sex Education

  3. Sex Respect: Abstinence Education Curriculum • Fear- and shame-based approach: "There is no way to have premarital sex without hurting someone," states one lesson. Another message: "Sex before marriage ... a quick way to lose at the game of life." • Inadequate and inaccurate medical information: Premarital sex is equated with increased incidence of cervical cancer. The failure rate of condoms is exaggerated. • Homophobic bias: Homosexuality is mentioned only in connection with a lesson on AIDS

  4. Comprehensive Sex Education • Age-appropriate, medically accurate information about contraception. • Developmentally appropriate, introducing information on relationships, decision-making, assertiveness, and skill building to resist social/peer pressure, depending on grade-level. • Inclusive of abstinence

  5. Sex Ed Funding • 1982 Adolescent Family Life Act - first federal funding for abstinence only education • 1996 welfare reform act included mandate of $50 million a year to fund abstinence-only programs • 2009 abstinence only funding shot down

  6. Whose responsibility is sex education?

  7. Sexuality & Children and Adolescents

  8.      SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT OF INFANTS AND TODDLERS A.    Importance of touch B.     Teaching body parts C.    Genital touching D.    Gender during the first three years 1.      Gender roles 2.      Learning gender differences

  9. Preschool years • Genital touching • Attraction for parents • Questions about reproduction • Preschoolers and sex play

  10. Expected Problematic Similar ages More than 3 years apart Undressing, playing doctor, you show me yours, I’ll show you mine Oral, anal, vaginal penetration with fingers objects

  11. Elementary School Years • Outdated Freudian idea of “latency” • Sex play becomes more secretive • Purposeful genital exploration • John Money’s “Love Maps”

  12.    The Third Parent • Media as the third parent • Media literacy/sexual literacy • Digital natives • Violence vs sex

  13. SEXUALITY IN ADOLESCENCE SEICUS • Consensual • Non-exploitative • Honest • Pleasurable • Protected from STIs/unplanned pregnancy

  14. http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/sextech/

  15. SEXUALITY AND AGING • Physiology of aging • Psychological changes • Social influences • Barriers to sexual activity in later years • Aging and safer sexual activities

  16. Safer sex & aging • About eleven per cent of all newly diagnosed HIV infections are in people older than fifty, and a quarter of those are older than sixty. • The risk of AIDS is increasing at twice the rate in people over fifty as compared to the increase in people under fifty. • Heterosexual HIV transmission in men over fifty is up ninety-four percent, and the rate has doubled in women since 1991.

  17. An Ohio University study found that about twenty-seven percent of HIV-infected men and thirty-five percent of HIV-infected women over fifty sometimes have sex without using condoms. • Older women are particularly at risk for blood-borne diseases like HIV or chlamydia because their thinning vaginal lining and lack of lubrication lead to tearing during intercourse, permitting easy access to the bloodstream.

  18. Sex and disabilities • Spinal cord injury • Cerebral palsy • Blindness and deafness • Limitations in mobility and dexterity

  19. Coping strategies for sex & disability • Acceptance • Development of options • Reducing shame • Seeing sex as a human need

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