Scarleteen
I'm glad so many people have chosen to do the photo meme. It's nice to have faces to put with the pseudonyms.
Yesterday, audrawilliams posted about the website Scarleteen. As a person who works in sex education, I kind of embarrassed to admit that I never knew this website existed. After having had a good look around, I must reiterate audrawilliams assessment. It is excellent.
I've given several workshops for frosh and if the questions/comments I'm hearing are any indication, teens are getting a lot of distorted and just plain wrong information. When I was a teen, my best source of sexual material were romance novels and occasional hits of contra-ban porn. Exciting though it may have been at the time, were talking about fiction steeped in male-centric, hetero normative imagery. It's not real. And there wasn't really any alternative (save for our sad ass sex ed unit in health class), to counter that. Every time I encounter a younger person who's been negatively affected by the same fantasies and stereotypes that I was, it makes me so sad. Teens (everyone, really) needs the sort of information Scarleteen provides.
At any rate, I promised audrawilliams that I would take up her cause. I've made a small donation of $10. It's not much, but I want to do something. Furthermore, I just want people to be aware of the site. I'm certainly going to mention it to customers and workshop attendees in the future. If honest, comprehensive sex information is sometime you feel is worthwhile, I implore you to throw Scarleteen a little money, or give them a mention in your own LJs. Or both. Every little bit counts.
http://www.scarleteen.com/help_sustain_scarleteen
Yesterday, audrawilliams posted about the website Scarleteen. As a person who works in sex education, I kind of embarrassed to admit that I never knew this website existed. After having had a good look around, I must reiterate audrawilliams assessment. It is excellent.
I've given several workshops for frosh and if the questions/comments I'm hearing are any indication, teens are getting a lot of distorted and just plain wrong information. When I was a teen, my best source of sexual material were romance novels and occasional hits of contra-ban porn. Exciting though it may have been at the time, were talking about fiction steeped in male-centric, hetero normative imagery. It's not real. And there wasn't really any alternative (save for our sad ass sex ed unit in health class), to counter that. Every time I encounter a younger person who's been negatively affected by the same fantasies and stereotypes that I was, it makes me so sad. Teens (everyone, really) needs the sort of information Scarleteen provides.
At any rate, I promised audrawilliams that I would take up her cause. I've made a small donation of $10. It's not much, but I want to do something. Furthermore, I just want people to be aware of the site. I'm certainly going to mention it to customers and workshop attendees in the future. If honest, comprehensive sex information is sometime you feel is worthwhile, I implore you to throw Scarleteen a little money, or give them a mention in your own LJs. Or both. Every little bit counts.
http://www.scarleteen.com/help_sustain_scarleteen