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 […]

I recently read an amazing report by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy called The Fog Zone: How Misperceptions, Magical Thinking, and Ambivalence Put Young Adults at Risk for Unplanned Pregnancy (PDF). It’s a thorough and impressive bit of research about the gap between what young adults know about contraception and their […]

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 […]

via essin-em 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 […]

The 2010 US Census is coming soon and there’s an important opportunity for same-sex couples to be counted. In the 1990 & 2000 censuses, same-sex couples could identify as married or unmarried partner. While the results weren’t officially reported, the raw numbers show that 145,000 same-sex couples identified as married or “unmarried partners” in 1990 […]

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 […]

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to regulating sexually-explicit material online is how to filter out the stuff you don’t want without also losing the stuff you want to keep. For example, if you filter porn websites that contain the word “breast”, you’re likely to also filter sites with information on breast cancer […]