‘What’s it all about, Alfie?’
by paulabowles Once again the emotive issue of teenage pregnancy has hit the headlines in the UK....
View ArticleRethinking Sex Education
by theoryforthemasses Public debate about the content of sex education in U.S. schools has been raging for decades. On one side of the fence are proponents of programs that teach abstinence-only sex...
View ArticleSexing Up the Sex Ed Classroom?
A sexuality education classroom In her Sociology Compass article, Sexuality Education in the United States: Shared Cultural Ideas Across the Political Divide, Jessica Fields maps the terrain of...
View ArticleThe Good and Bad News about HIV Infections
Source: CDC This week, great news emerged out of Mississippi: an infant, previously infected with HIV, has been cured of the virus. This development indicates promise for the future. We have now...
View ArticleSexing Up the Sex Ed Classroom Revisited
Source: thesociologicalcinema.com About a year ago, I wrote my first post for Sociology Lens about the tensions over sex education in the United States. Specifically, I commented on Jessica Field’s...
View ArticleThe detriments of “Sex Ed” in its current state
Source: thesociologicalcinema.com Do you remember your sex education during your youth? Did you even have sex education? My school district (a local, public school district composing of four small...
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