sex week at brown « Shanna Katz M.Ed, ACS — Board Certified Sexologist and Sexuality Educator

Classes in Rhode Island

Sorry about the web silence folks! I’ve been in the process of moving from Phoenix, AZ to Denver, CO, and haven’t really had much internet, and definitely haven’t had much in the way of time.

But never fear; I’m back! And right now, I’m in the wonderful state of Rhode Island, and I have not [...]

Sex Education Does Not Lead To Increased STI Transmission

For those who do not know, many sex educators, myself included, were recently attacked in a post/report that claimed that our education on the Brown University campus was a direct correlation of the recent four new cases of HIV within the student population. It stated that people such as myself (a “sex toy representative”) did [...]

Stop Hating on Campus Sex Education

There are a number of articles out there now that are discussing how “awful” college sex weeks are, how sex education is “infecting” college campuses, how Yale giving out 14,000 condoms is a travesty. I’m not going to do them the service of linking to these ridiculous articles, as some of them take some pot [...]

Tongues are a-waggin’

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to Brown University for Sex Week 2010. I put on four workshops/classes; Strap On 101, SexAbility; The Intersections between Sexuality and Disability, Making it Work Outside the Box; Relationships and Communication, and Feminist & Sex-Positive Pornography. All in all, I reached a good number of students, [...]