What should sex-ed be teaching kids today? On the next Your Call we discuss where kids raised in the Internet age learn about sex and what schools and parents should be telling them. A December report said teen pregnancy was up 3% in 2005, the biggest increase since the first George Bush was president. Is the rising teen pregnancy rate a rebuke to abstinence-only classes? When any and every sexual act is available with the click of a mouse, what should middle and high schools be teaching their students about pregnancy, STDs, intimacy and abstinence? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Shelby Knox
Shelby is a sex education activist and the subject of the documentary The Education of Shelby Knox about her crusade to get sex ed taught in her Texas high school.
Luis Galdama
Luis is on the national board of the Abstinence Clearinghouse, a non-profit based in South Dakota dedicated to abstinence-only sex education.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Your Call 011008 Sex Ed in the Era of Ubiquitous Porn
Monday, October 22, 2007
Your Call 102307 Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
How does pornography affect what it means to be a man? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about the multibillion dollar porn industry with Robert Jensen, author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen says mainstream porn has come up with more ways than ever to humiliate and degrade women. So why is it so popular? Over 260 porn sites go up daily. Has pornography become normalized? How does it affect you? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.
Guest:
Robert Jensen is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007) and an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
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