Sex Educators

Self-Love Part 2: How Can Something So Good, Really Be So “Wrong”?

October 18, 2011

Ok, I have a confession to make. Writing the blog entry I did on Masturbation a year ago was so incredibly difficult for me. I realized before I hit send that I had bitten off all my fingernails and tugged at my eyelashes. What is up with THAT?  It really makes me wonder what my mom [...]

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“A funny thing happened on the way to the Rec Center”…

March 16, 2011

As a mom, I occasionally read the posts in the forums of my local mom’s club.  One struck me yesterday and I was moved to respond.  Here is the question: “Horrified by tween conversation–Warning TMI–what should I have done? I was walking in to the front door of the gym at the community center with [...]

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We’ve Come a Long Way Baby… or Not?

March 3, 2011

All of the opposition to comprehensive sex education and the attacks on sexual health and women’s reproductive rights from the Conservatives or “Pro-life-rs” surrounding the debate over funding Planned Parenthood reminds me of the beginning of chapter 6 from Judith Levine’s book Harmful To Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex. Abstinence education is [...]

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Happy Dot Day!

October 23, 2010

Over the past summer, my girls, Marcia (8) and Cindy (6), and I started discussing the changes that happen to a kid’s body when s/he goes through puberty. We discussed all the usual stuff but in very general terms. In boys, a few of the changes that occur are the following: hair starts to grow [...]

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My Kid Skipped The “Where did I come from?” Question!!!

September 24, 2010

My girls (We’ll call them Marcia & Cindy) know that I’m studying sex at school. Actually, when you Marcia tell it, she says her mom is “studying people’s bodies”, which I guess is age-appropriate. Anyway, I have a number of “school supplies” in my home and, because my focus is helping parents talk with their children [...]

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…with a Bullet

September 22, 2010

True Story.  This is how it all started: I’m in the bathroom one morning brushing my teeth. In walks my eight-year-old Marcia. She is bored because she’s already ready for school and she’s looking for something to pass the time. She absentmindedly opens a drawer where the hairbrushes are and sees my bullet vibrator (I [...]

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