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Saturday was World AIDS day and the world took some time to educate and spread awareness. The AIDS quilt was right around the corner from us here in Las Vegas. It stopped in Bakersfield, CA on its tour. In this day and age, no one should contract the disease let alone die from it. There are so many ways to prevent the spread of AIDS and HIV, however there is no cure once a person contracts the virus.
According to WebMD’s Web site,
Anyone can get HIV if they engage in certain activities. You may have a higher risk of getting HIV if you:
- Have unprotected sex. This means vaginal or anal intercourse without a condom or oral sex without a latex barrier with a person infected with HIV.
- Share needles to inject drugs or steroids with an infected person. The disease can also be transmitted by dirty needles used to make a tattoo or in body piercing.
- Receive a blood transfusion from an infected person. This is very unlikely in the U.S. and Western Europe, where all blood is tested for HIV infection.
- Are born to a mother with HIV infection. A baby can also get HIV from the breast milk of an infected woman.
Recently in Chicago, there were four transplants that were performed on patients who did not have the virus. After the transplant, they tested positive for HIV. Transplants may seem safe, but they actually can be very deadly, as in this case. The donor was tested before the transplants, but the doctors explained after finding out the shocking news, that if a donor contracts the virus close to the time of the test, it will show up negative.
Take the time today to learn more about HIV and AIDS and get tested!
I conducted an interview to see how parents felt about the decision to distribute birth control pills to young girls. Click on the link below to hear the interview.
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This generation of kids doesn’t listen to their parents and other adults about what clothing to wear or what movies not to see or how they should wear their hair. Why, then, would they listen when the parents and adults are telling them not to engage in sexual activities at a young age?
In a recent article by the Associated Press, they reported that abstinence education is not working.
“At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners” among teenagers, the study concluded.
This is not to say that sex education as a whole is a failure. It is reasonably ridiculous to think that telling kids to not have sex is going to make them not have sex. A more comprehensive education about sex has been proven to delay the initiation of sex and convince kids to use protection and use it the right way.
Teen pregnancy nationwide is on the rise. A school in Portland, Maine took a very drastic measure to help reduce teen pregnancies, and the majority of parents think it is a good idea. Giving kids between the ages of 11 and 14 birth control may seem more than drastic. It may seem down right crazy. However, an 11 year old mother seems crazier to me than an 11 year old on a birth control pill.
Abstinence is a great idea. It’s a great plan. But it’s not realistic. We were all kids at one point. Abstinence cannot be a solution for things like peer pressure and hormones. These are inevitable events in a child’s life. Instead of pretending that kids don’t experience feelings they can’t control or they don’t face the pressure to have sex, programs, like Portland, Maine’s, offer help and guidance.
You have to decide at the end of day whether you would rather have a grandchild at the age of 31 or have the dreaded “sex talk” with your kids a little earlier than you were planning to. Realize that you can help your kids and prevent a pregnancy that did not have to be.
You would never talk to your grandmother about sex, right? In fact, for some, it’s hard to talk to your mother about sex. Why, then, is it so entertaining and educational to watch Talk Sex With Sue Johanson on Oxygen TV? She’s probably older than some of our grandmothers, and is more open about sex than most of us are!
What some of you may not know is that aside from being a sexual educator and registered nurse for over 30 years, Johanson is a mother and grandmother! How cool would it be to have her as your grandma?
Johanson has written three books, along with her live phone-in show on Sunday nights. If you haven’t seen the show, shame on you! She receives calls from men and women from around the country with all kinds of sexual questions. Some of the question make even Johanson giggle. She is very open and educated on a variety of sexual topics. She doesn’t make her callers feel stupid or uninformed. She even has little figurines to aid her in explaining some issues.
By tuning in to Johanson on Sunday nights, you will have the ultimate pleasure of finding out the “Position of the Week” and her tips on sexual toy maintenance and care.
I think it is fabulous that she makes talking about sex comfortable, fun, educational and, sometimes, down right funny! In a society that refuses to discuss sex openly or answer people’s looming questions, it is refreshing to see one woman take matters into her own hands. Even if she is 77 years old!
