Things are coming along nicely at Sexposé headquarters.
We're finalizing our layout templates, but still looking for a printer. We know we're keeping you waiting with bated breath for our stories to be posted online, but we just want to make sure they're prefect.
Look out for Aileen's exploration of pornography as education and Veronica's profile on Claire Brosseau and her year without men. Vanessa explored multicultural sex-ed and Vicki took a close look at prophylactics in the lesbian community.
Right now, Veronica and Vanessa have something for the boys, with stories on manscaping and locker-room talk. Aileen asks how can the married couple spice up their sex life, while Vicki explores online dating for the divorcee.
Stay tuned for more!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
When abstinence is the right decision
Reading Claire's blog, I was struck by the similarities between me and her.
"I'm boy-crazy too!"
"I've made questionable decisions!"
I'll run into a friend and they'll ask me, 'how's it goin' with that guy?'
And more often than not, I reply, 'which one? Oh, that was like... three or four dudes ago. Get with the program.'
"I'm boy-crazy too!"
"I've made questionable decisions!"
I'll run into a friend and they'll ask me, 'how's it goin' with that guy?'
And more often than not, I reply, 'which one? Oh, that was like... three or four dudes ago. Get with the program.'
Monday, November 1, 2010
Anti-sexting application resurrects debate over how much control parents should have
By Vanessa Brown
Knowing there are public photos that violated the girl's vulnerability and safety deeply upset Murielle Boudreau. In September, sexually explicit images of a 16-year-old girl, gang-raped by a group of males at a Pitt Meadows, B.C. field party were posted online. Within days, the photos quickly spread across Facebook, leading RCMP officials to plead with students to help stop it. Two Pitt Meadows male students have since been charged with child pornography.
Boudreau, a member of the Greater Catholic Parent Network, cringes at the thought that such photos are out there for her two teenaged daughters to see. But instead of controlling their Internet use and cell phone text messages, Boudreau uses the incident to communicate with them.
"It's just brutal," she said. "It's vulgar, and so we talk about things like that, and I tell them to be careful about what pictures they put out there because they're there forever."
In an attempt to control vulgar text messages, Apple patented an application on Oct. 12 that will allow parents to block unauthorized content sent or received by their children. Although the patent doesn't explicitly refer to "sexting" (text messages of a sexual nature), U.S. tech experts have dubbed it the "anti-sexting app." The application is not yet available.
Knowing there are public photos that violated the girl's vulnerability and safety deeply upset Murielle Boudreau. In September, sexually explicit images of a 16-year-old girl, gang-raped by a group of males at a Pitt Meadows, B.C. field party were posted online. Within days, the photos quickly spread across Facebook, leading RCMP officials to plead with students to help stop it. Two Pitt Meadows male students have since been charged with child pornography.
Boudreau, a member of the Greater Catholic Parent Network, cringes at the thought that such photos are out there for her two teenaged daughters to see. But instead of controlling their Internet use and cell phone text messages, Boudreau uses the incident to communicate with them.
"It's just brutal," she said. "It's vulgar, and so we talk about things like that, and I tell them to be careful about what pictures they put out there because they're there forever."
In an attempt to control vulgar text messages, Apple patented an application on Oct. 12 that will allow parents to block unauthorized content sent or received by their children. Although the patent doesn't explicitly refer to "sexting" (text messages of a sexual nature), U.S. tech experts have dubbed it the "anti-sexting app." The application is not yet available.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
What do kids really know about sex?
The last time I had sexual-education was in grade 9. The curriculum I had was the very same one that students use today. Incidentally, it was the first year the curriculum had been applied enmasse. 1999.
But what do I really remember from health and sex-ed?
But what do I really remember from health and sex-ed?
DON'T DO DRUGS
WEAR A CONDOM
DON'T HAVE SEX
DRUGS ARE BAD
Friday, October 29, 2010
What the Ontario sex-ed curriculum really said
I love research. Some would say I'm addicted to researchahol. (Seriously, I need a 12-step program.)
Before I begin my interviews and before I can even begin generating a source list, I need my fix.
But I tend to get carried away.
Reading articles, studies, court-documents, text-books, websites and government documents gives depth to a story. But I want to read everything. Everything.
And the sex-ed story was no exception.
I had many questions to answer: why did the Ontario government withdrawl the proposed changes to the sex-ed portion of the health and physical education curriculum? What was so controversial? What were the timelines? What did the curriculum look like prior? What did the proposed chages really say?
Before I begin my interviews and before I can even begin generating a source list, I need my fix.
But I tend to get carried away.
Reading articles, studies, court-documents, text-books, websites and government documents gives depth to a story. But I want to read everything. Everything.
And the sex-ed story was no exception.
I had many questions to answer: why did the Ontario government withdrawl the proposed changes to the sex-ed portion of the health and physical education curriculum? What was so controversial? What were the timelines? What did the curriculum look like prior? What did the proposed chages really say?
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