I
Wanna Know - A
service of the American Social Health Association, this site answers questions
about sexually transmitted diseases (STD's), including HIV/AIDS. Ask your questions in an online chat
room and experts will answer.
http://www.iwannaknow.org
National Herpes
HOTLINE - A
service of the American Social Health Association. Call 6 a.m. - 4 p.m.,
Pacific Standard Time, Monday-Friday [9 a.m. - 7 p.m., Eastern]
1-919-361-8488
National
HPV & Cervical Cancer Prevention Resource Center HOTLINES
- A
service of the American Social Health Association. Call 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.,
Pacific Standard Time, Monday-Friday [2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Eastern]
1-919-361-4848
National
STD and AIDS HOTLINES - Services
of the Centers for Disease Control (U.S. government).
In English, 24
hours a day, seven days a week:
1-800-227-8922
or 1-800-342-2437
En
Espanol, 5 a.m. – 11 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, seven days a week [8 a.m. -
2 a.m., Eastern]: 1-800-344-7432
TTY,
for people who are
deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, Monday-Friday [10 a.m. - 10 p.m.,
Eastern]:
1-800-243-7889
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You know different - The National Youth Advocacy Coalition with support from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of HIV/AIDS,
Capacity Building Branch, has created a national strategy to
increase HIV testing rates among youth. This project is a
youth-driven effort to provide communities with materials that
promote HIV testing among youth in an empowering and authentic
way, recognizing the skills, determination and ability of young
people to mobilize, talk honestly and take action to stop the
spread of HIV among their peers, families, and communities.
This project includes a community level mobilization effort
where youth serving agencies partner with AIDS service
organizations in a planning process to identify strategies to
promote HIV testing to youth and young adults.
http://www.youknowdifferent.org |
LINKS
TO SEXUALITY INFORMATION
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NOTE:
Some
sites offer excellent, reliable information about sexuality, but they
specifically say, "Because we get so many letters, we can't promise to
answer each one personally. Write us and you may see an answer posted to our
site." So go here to see if someone else has asked your question, but
don't
count on getting a reply to a specific question of yours.
Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Health Web Pages
-
A service of Public Health –
Seattle & King County, this site addresses everything from sexual health
to tobacco and suicide, specifically as they relate to GLBT people.
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/
Go
Ask Alice
-
A service of Columbia
University's Health Education Program, this site for high school and college
students and educators addresses ALL aspects of health from fitness to
emotional health to drugs to sexuality.
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu
The National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content
and Skills, K–12 - provides clear, consistent and straightforward guidance
on the essential minimum, core content for sexuality education that is
age-appropriate for students in grades K–12. The Standards are presented both by
topic area and by grade level. Four leading health organizations released the
first-ever national standards for sexuality education in schools. Published in
the Journal of School Health, the ground-breaking Standard are the result of a
cooperative effort by the American Association for Health Education, the
American School Health Association, the National Education Association Health
Information Network, and the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical
Education, in coordination with the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative.
Nearly 40 stakeholders including content experts, medical and public health
professionals, teachers, sexuality educators, and young people developed the
standards in a two-year process. “These National Sexuality Education Standards
provide teachers, schools, school districts, and state education agencies with a
new national standard—the minimum they need to teach to set students on a path
to sexual health and responsible adulthood,” said Jerry Newberry, Executive
Director of the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA
HIN). “They set forth essential sexuality education core content and skills
responsive to the needs of students and in service to their overall academic
achievement.” Website:
http://www.futureofsexed.org/fosestandards.html; Standards document:
http://www.futureofsexed.org/documents/josh-fose-standards-web.pdf
(pdf file)
Not
2 Late
-
This
site specifically about emergency contraception
is operated by the Office of
Population Research at Princeton University and by the Association of
Reproductive Health Professionals.
http://ec.princeton.edu/
Safer Sex
- this brochure from
Fenway Community Health in Boston, MA offers explicit safer sex advice
(too explicit for a pamphlet rack in many public school nurses' offices).
http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/DocServer/safersex.pdf?docID=321
(pdf format)
Safer Sex for Bisexuals and Their
Partners
- this brochure from Fenway Community
Health in Boston, MA offers explicit safer sex
advice (too explicit for a pamphlet rack in many public school nurses'
offices).
http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/DocServer/safersexbi.pdf?docID=322
(pdf format)
Sex
Information and Education Council of the U.S. - lots of
information, resources and news for teens, educators, parents or
other adults.
http://www.siecus.org/
TeenWire
-
A service of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, this site
for teens addresses all kinds of sexual health issues.
http://www.teenwire.com
BOOKS
& ‘ZINES ON SEXUALITY (in general)
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Finding
Our Way: The Teen Girls’ Survival Guide
Allison Abner and Linda Villarosa
Addresses everything a girl needs to know about her body, boys’ bodies,
skin, hair, sex, birth control, friendship, date rape, parents. Is the only
book of its kind that’s this respectful of racial and sexual diversity.
Foreward by Queen Latifah.
1995; ISBN 0060951141; Harper Perennial.
The
Go Ask Alice Book of Answers: A Guide to Good Physical, Sexual, and Emotional
Health
Columbia University’s Health Education
Program
Information about relationships; sexuality; sexual health; emotional health,
fitness and nutrition, alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs; and general health
questions.
1998; $15.95; ISBN 0805055703; VHPS,
16365 James Madison Highway, Gordonsville, VA 22942; Phone: 888/330-8477.
Website:
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/book.html
SexTalk
- Queer: What a Queer Booknook - Book
categories include Sex Education for Educators, Sex Education for Youth,
Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids,
Sex,
GLBT Issues,
Body Image,
Women's Sexual Health,
Men's Sexual Health, and more
-
from
Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, New York.
http://www.sextalk.org/queer/queer-books.html
Talk About Sex
- from SIECUS (the Sexuality Information
and Education Council of the United States)
provides young people with basic
information about a range of sexuality topics as well as referrals to
reputable websites for more information. More than a brochure, but less
than a book, SIECUS' new "minibook" includes "chapters" entitled: What
is Sexuality; Sexual Rights; Basic Biology; Staying Healthy; Gender
Identity; Sexual Orientation; Relationships; Communication Skills;
Choosing What to Do; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Response; Sexual Abuse;
Birth Control; STDs/HIV; and Find Out More.
Contact SIECUS to purchase hard copies at $3.00/each.
http://www.siecus.org/_data/global/images/TalkAboutSex.pdf
(pdf format)
What's
Happening to My Body? Book For Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons
New Expanded, 3rd Edition
Lynda Madaras
About puberty and related issues.
2000; $12.95; ISBN1557044430; Newmarket
Press, 18 E. 48th Street, Suite 1501, New York, NY 10017; Phone: 212-832-3575.
What's
Happening to My Body? Book For Girls: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and
Daughters New Expanded, 3rd Edition
Lynda Madaras
About puberty and related issues.
2000; $12.95; ISBN 1557044430; Newmarket
Press, 18 E. 48th Street, Suite 1501, New York, NY 10017; Phone: 212-832-3575.
A
Young Woman’s Survival Guide: Kickin’ Back with the Girls
Health Initiatives for Youth
Written by and for young women in clear, friendly language, this guide
addresses relationships & sexuality; anatomy & menstruation: STDs, HIV
& hepatitis; birth control, and more.
1998; $10; Health Initiatives for Youth Publications, 1242 Market
Street, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102; Phone: 415-487-5777. Website:
http://akpress.com/2004/items/youngwomanssurvivalguide
Educators
want to ensure that all teens recognize their vulnerability to HIV and
other sexually transmitted diseases. And they want to avoid stereotyping gay
men. So they have been trying for the last couple of decades to communicate
the message that STDs don't discriminate, that anyone who has unprotected sex
with an infected partner can become infected. And that is true. But in this
effort to include heterosexual youth in the conversation, we have
sometimes failed to address the elevated risk facing gay, lesbian, bisexual
and questioning teens once they become sexually intimate. In fact, we have
sometimes, out of our own discomfort, avoided addressing them at all.
Why is their
risk elevated? First, their potential partners belong to a smaller population
than other teens' partners (i.e., there are fewer gay, lesbian and bi people
than there are heterosexuals), and disease just spreads more quickly in
smaller pools of people. Also, some LGBTQ youth have sex or choose
parenthood as a way to cope with social isolation and emotional and physical
harassment; when you've experienced a lot of rejection and abuse, sex is a way
of comforting yourself. Some LGBTQ teens get sexually assaulted, a sad
reality for a much higher proportion of LGBTQ youth than for their
heterosexual peers. Finally, given the fact that some studies have found as
many as 40% of homeless youth are gay, lesbian or bisexual, some of
their sex -- heterosexual and homosexual -- may be "survival
sex" (a barter for a meal or a place to sleep).
These
resources will help educators to talk about the risk and ways of reducing
it.
2009 Fact Sheet from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention (the CDC): "HIV/AIDS and Young Men Who Have Sex With
Men":
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/sexualbehaviors/pdf/hiv_factsheet_ymsm.pdf
(pdf format)
Coalition for Positive
Sexuality
- organization
offers very explicit safer sex information for teens of all sexual
orientations. Phone: 773-604-1654. Website:
http://www.positive.org
I
Wanna Know
- web site for teens, sponsored by the American Social
Health Association, about teen sexual health and sexually transmitted
disease.
http://www.iwannaknow.org
LesbianSTD.com
- information. research and resources regarding
sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases in women who have sex
with women. Based in Seattle, WA from a doctor & Associate Professor of
Medicine (Infectious Diseases), a clinical social worker, and an
advanced registered nurse practitioner.
http://www.lesbianstd.com/
Oral
Barriers - thin
sheets of natural latex. Classroom and clinic presentations can be
oral-sex-inclusive without the turn-off of thick dental dams or the
awkwardness of cutting latex gloves or plastic wrap. Helpful information for
heterosexual and non-heterosexual students, alike. Distributor also offers
posters and lubricants. Glyde USA, PO Box 9783, Seattle, WA 98109; Phone:
206-284-1636. Website:
http://www.sheerglydedams.com
Safer Sex for Bisexuals and Their Partners
- brochure
offers explicit safer sex advice (too explicit for a pamphlet rack in many
public school nurses' offices).
http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/DocServer/safersexbi.pdf?docID=322
(pdf format)
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Among Gay and Bisexual Men
- from Public Health – Seattle & King County.
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/gbstd.htm
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women - from Public Health –
Seattle & King County.
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/lbstd.htm
Young
Men Who Have Sex With Men: At Risk for HIV and STDs
- pamphlet available in print and online
from Advocates for Youth, Suite 200, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20005; Phone: 202-347-5700.
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/factsheet/fsyngmen.htm and en Español:
Hombres
jóvenes que tienen relaciones sexuales con hombres: en riesgo de contraer el
VIH y otras ETS
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/factsheet/fsyngmen_sp.htm
