Your Call 090408 Sex and Politics

How will questions about sex play out in the presidential election? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with historian Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has the nation talking about her teenage daughter's pregnancy. The news has become part of the political debate. What do the responses on the left say about what they get or don't get about how gender and sexuality works politically on the right? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Dagmar Herzog is professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of several books, including Intimacy and Exclusion and Sex after Fascism. Her most recent book is Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics.

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Your Call 031008 How are young girls learning about sex?

How are young girls learning about sex and what should we teach them? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at sex education for young girls. The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the industrialized world--almost twice as high as those of England and Canada, and eight times as high as that of the Netherlands. With a decline in sex education and rise in abstinence-only programs, where do girls go to learn about their bodies? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Ivy Chen, a sexuality health educator at San Francisco State University

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Your Call 011008 Sex Ed in the Era of Ubiquitous Porn

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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