Sex is different from drugs; we can't tell them just to say no and leave it at that. Sexuality isn't something they can opt out of."

Ariel Levy– Female Chauvinist Pigs and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Sexual Health Awareness Week; EVENT

Choices in Contraception Hypothetical: This will be a great event to attend.

15 year old Bella faces a panel with her questions on contraception:
The panel members are:

• parents
• peers
• school counsellor
• doctor
• pharmacist

For more information go here or call 83005317 to book a place

In support of young men

I just thought I'd share an experience I recently had with 7 young men.

Not long ago myself and another worker were asked to work with some young men that had been identified by a rural school as being able to benifit from some work around racism, mysogeny, homophobia ( as they were considered perpetrators of these isms, eny's and ias). As it turns out these young men were awesome. They understood the issues of oppression that were all around them. They understood that school is a difficult place to survive in. They WANTED to be given space to explore these issues. They wanted to be able to speak out about SO MANY THINGS.

As it turns out these young men reinforced the belief that it is up to US as workers to find a way to reach the young people we work with. If we can do work together, be creative and be flexible - so much is possible. Thanks so much to the highschool for providing the flexibility and opportunity for this to occur.

Here is a picture that these young men put together. Can you figure it out?

Petals: great resource for young women

This is a fantastic resource for young women. Petals is a picture book and dvd showing lots of different vuvlas. If you work with young women they often have serious esteem issues around thier vulvas and thier own self imagry. This resource enables you to show them the incredible diversity around vulvas and helps them normalise thier own bodies. Go to this website to have a look. SHineSA has a copy of the book and dvd in its library if you want to see them.

Sexual Health Courses for 2011

SHineSA FRESH course dates are set for 2011. This course is for people who work with young people and want to find out how to address the sexual health needs of thier client group. In this course you will cover such topics as:

• realtionships


• gender


• stis


• contraception choices


• sexual health and values


• homophobia


• unplanned pregnancy


• violence and abuse

• the sexual response cycle


• adolescent anatomy and physiology


• and more

On completion of the FRESH course, you will have: an increased level of confidence working with clients in this area of sexual health a language that enables effective communication skills to address clients’ sexual health needs through assessment, program development, delivery and evaluation developed a toolkit of resources that can be used with clients a better understanding of your own biases in this area of work and how they can be minimised in order to provide quality services.

If you want to find out more, or enroll go HERE for all the information you may need. But places are filling very quickly for the first course starting in march.