Midlife Flings, Flavours, and Family Sex Education

I get to read a lot on this job, which I love, although it can make me feel like a cartoon character with a spinning head. I’m always on the prowl for interesting items on sexual health, building relationships, safe sex communication, and talking honestly and powerfully about sexuality. I can’t use everything I find, or write about it all in my posts. Here are a few things from the past couple of months that have made me laugh or go hmmmm… 

In the really?? department: if going down on your partner could be improved if he or she tasted better, there’s a pill for that! (In the great quest to create a market for everything). Response is mixed on whether it’s a necessity.

Those who’ve read this blog before know I believe in age-appropriate sex ed for kids, starting young enough to avoid the eeewwwww factor and keeping the conversation going when condoms become currency. I’ve been faced with questions about sex from other people’s kids, but I haven’t written it up as well as Lisa Belkin.

If you’re up for summer sexual fling and haven’t got lucky yet, maybe some advice on the seven types of flings could help?

This one is not related to sexual health at all, but the passion of it still speaks to me. A rant about the crazy discrepancies in how money is spent and how it could be directed at education and health. A lovely kick in the pants for any activist.

Okay, back to reading.

- Janet

Check this Out: Sexual health information for teens, teachers, parents, and health professionals: Sexuality and U

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