" >“The Sex Factor”: Dissecting Sexuality Messages in TV
Bryce Komaroff has an amazing knack for constructive criticism, a fiendishly sultry voice and a penchant for watching TV with lots of sex in it. A burgeoning sexuality educator herself, she watched time and again as popular comedies aimed at young viewers depicted sexuality in unhelpfully inaccurate ways. It wasn’t that the shows were too … Read more
Oh, Boy! I Love Tests!
April is the official awareness month for a lot of things and we’ve already talked about a few of them: Poetry, Sexual Assault Prevention and even Wage Gap Day where we looked at pictures of Ryan Gosling and swooned. Before this month is out, we need to shine a flashlight on one more matter. Yes, Peanut … Read more
Urban Legends about Sexuality: Podcast with Dr. Henken Pt II
If you didn’t catch Part I of this phenomenal interview, then you turn your horse right around this instant and go check it out. You’ve heard them…. you’ve probably told them: stories that happened to a friend of a friend (FOAF) or to your sister’s teammate’s fiance, or your mom’s friend who works in the … Read more
Did You Hear About the Girl Who…. :Podcast with Dr. Elissa Henken Pt I
Urban legends, rumors, gossip, jokes and folklore: they are part of our every day conversations and they shape the way we view almost everything. Have you ever stopped doing something (or started) because you heard about something terrible that happened to some girl that was a friend of friend? Have you ever heard about the … Read more
Podcast with the cast of Rent: School Edition
As I sat and talked with some of the cast of Rent: School Edition, it was clear I was talking to teenagers. They giggled joyfully, got nervous when they had to talk about themselves and their understanding of the complex issues of gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and HIV depicted in the show was shaped … Read more
