Contemporary Sexuality back issues from July 2008:
The 2008 AASECT award winners are ...
Jul 01, 2008; ... Carrera, Dyson, Huggins, Luker, Planned Parenthood, Satterly and the Sughrues Proven sexuality education for teenagers and preteens. A trailblazing gay man and AASECT conference organizer. A husband-wife sex therapy team that helped couples in South Carolina and Georgia. The author of a ...
From the Executive Director
Jul 01, 2008; ... This is our second digitized issue of CS! We hope you have already moved to the utilitarian new digital online version of Contemporary Sexuality. You can always print a copy on your desk printer and still save funds for your membership guild association. To choose to "Go Green," send a note to ...
Member Spotlight
Jul 01, 2008; ... Charley Ferrer, MA, DHS (Staten Island, N.Y.) Member Spotlight is a monthly column offering an opportunity for AASECT members to get to know more about each other. Each month, a different member's story will be introduced. If you would like to recommend someone to be interviewed for this ...
AASECT Winter Institute
Jul 01, 2008; ... Thanks to Bill Finger for his work on recruiting two of our stellar faculty for a special new AASECT endeavor. Sallie Foley and Barry McCarthy have agreed to co-lead our first Winter Institute for advanced/intermediate sex therapists. This training, entitled "An Integrative, ...
HPV may cause cancer in men
Jul 01, 2008; ... The sexually transmitted infection known as HPV - human papillomavirus - can lead to cervical cancer in women. Now there's evidence HPV may cause cancer of the tongue and tonsils in men. "Patients who have HPV infections are at higher risk for these cancers," said Francis Worden, MD, ...
Supreme Court upholds PROTECT Act
Jul 01, 2008; ... Is it constitutional to prosecute a person claiming to have sexually explicit photos of children, but actually doesn't? By a vote of 7-2, the U.S. Supreme Court answered "yes." In upholding the PROTECT Act - also known as the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation ...
California assemblyman proposes porn tax
Jul 01, 2008; ... A California assemblyman wants to impose a 25 percent tax on the production and distribution of erotic films and other forms of adult entertainment, including strip clubs. The proposed tax would affect sales from websites, cable television and stores. "This isn't about morality," says ...
Gay Iranian allowed to stay in U.K.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Mehdi Kazemi moved from Iran to the U.K. in 2004 to study English. While attending university in London, Kazemi's former lover was convicted of sodomy, a crime punishable by death in the conservative nation. Kazemi, 19, asked the British government for permission to stay in the U.K ....
Abstinence-only forces unleash video
Jul 01, 2008; ... The National Abstinence Education Association has produced a three-minute video (bttp://neav.inovaone.com] that alleges that comprehensive sex education teaches children how to have sex. After arriving home, Mom greets her 13-yearold daughter (who is dutifully doing her homework at the ...
Take the Guttmacher Institute quiz
Jul 01, 2008; ... What percentage of Americans are not virgins when they get married? Possible answers: 50 percent, 75 percent or 95 percent. OK, that one is pretty easy for readers of this publication. (The answer: 95 percent.) But how well do you fare on the other nine questions in the ...
News of Members
Jul 01, 2008; ... Thomas Wood (Wilmington, Del.) was awarded the Student Poster Award at the AASECT conference award luncheon. The title of his poster was An Identity Crisis: Differentiating the Gay Man's Experience of Proactive Prostate Cancer Treatments. On May 21, Mitch Tepper (Atlanta, Ga.), Chris ...
Educational Opportunities
Jul 01, 2008; ... Couple and Sex Therapy Training Year long, starting July 3, UCLA Extension Division, Westwood, California More info: Berta Davis at (818) 784-3959 or bertadavis@betadavis.com Register for course, contact UCLA (310) 825 9971 or ...