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Can we learn from a place of power? by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex This weekend I had a conversation about education and classroom dynamics. In it, I said: We need to remember that students will have a wide range of reactions to any ... Read on »

My new website! by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I am so excited to announce the launch of new website: If you are receiving this via e-mail or a reader, please register to receive my blog posts via Unhushed . ... Read on »

Parents: Children’s Primary Sexual (Violence) Educators by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I recently wrote an article for Partners in Social Change , the publication from the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs that addresses how parents can most ef ... Read on »

Sexual Identity, Race, and Gender: The Evolution of Equality by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex Thanks, Upworthy , for pointing me in the direction of this infographic from Daily Infographic . It puts many things in context. (While, of course, leaving out others, but ... Read on »

Gender v. Sexual Orientation: a short primer by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex Several weeks ago I had a guest author write about how to talk with your kids about sexual orientation . While I loved much of what Wesley said in her post, I was a little ... Read on »

Rising Rates of Mental Illness Worry Academic Community by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex Most of the issues covered on my blog are about teenage sexuality. However, this topic is related to a far wider range of material. In this post, Bree Hernandez, an educat ... Read on »

When your own kid might be gay by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I am delighted to have a guest blog post from Wesley Davidson today. Wesley is an award-winning writer. She has written articles on health and childcare for such publ ... Read on »

What happens when you take the sex out of sexuality education by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I recently attended the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy’s annual conference and learned all sorts of interesting things and had great conversations with lots of p ... Read on »

Everyone has something to come out about by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex Happy National Coming Out Day ! This day has been set aside to increase awareness of people who are open about their LGBTQ identity. This year in particular, with the ... Read on »

Newsflash: Sex is good for you! by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex That’s a bit simplistic maybe, I could break it down and a few qualifiers, but right now I’m not going to. As an overarching aspect of the human experience, sex has the po ... Read on »

From sea to shining sea, teenage girls are ignored, denegrated, impregnanted, and shielded from... by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I gave my college students a test this week which included, among other things, questions covering basic anatomy and reproduction. Let’s kindly call some of their answers ... Read on »

50 Shades of Crap by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I something to admit to all of you. I have not read 50 Shades of Grey. Now, usually I’ll read or watch or listen to whatever it is that my students are reading or watc ... Read on »

Sex with Mom and Dad (a guest post) by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex (The following is a guest post from a female college student who contacted me recently because she wants to work in the field of sex education. I asked if she would like t ... Read on »

Eating disorders by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex I want to take a moment to honor those men and women who have died from eating disorders. I want to lay a blanket of snow and fog over the world to stop everyone from movi ... Read on »

Saying good-bye, and thank you, to a class by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex One of my middle school classes just ended about an hour ago. On these last class days, among other things, everyone gets a blank book and we all write notes to each other ... Read on »

Doesn’t everybody know about sex? by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex “A college class about sex? Don’t they already know about it, then?” “I’ll just teach my kids everything they need to know.” “Parents should really be the ones to ... Read on »

How to do sex ed, NYC style by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex One of the most common questions I get from parents is how to start the conversation with their kids about sex. I was recently on a little vacation in New York City, and ... Read on »

Say No to Crazy, Yes to Legal Rights! by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex There is a video making the Internet rounds of a crazy woman giving an anti-LGBTQ rant at a Lincoln, Nebraska city council meeting. And I assure you, it is well worth wat ... Read on »

Everyone needs some of this! by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex As my classes are wrapping up (two down, three still to go!), sometimes students write me parting letters. One of my college students wrote me something that I think spea ... Read on »

Absolute proof that sex ed saves lives! by Karen R. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Relationships & Sex (Here’s the necessary background to the story that I am about to tell, a prologue, if you will: In addition to teaching my middle and high school classes, I also teach co ... Read on »

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