Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Working with young men and women with an intellectual disability

I have recently been using a resource that I think is great when working with young men and women with an intellectual disability. But is also a great resource to use with any young audience that needs accurate information in a realistic but non threatening way. The resource is a DVD called 'The New Guide To Relationships and Sex' produced by Life Support Productions in the UK.

This is a dvd using avatars to explore 5 main areas:




  • Growing Up


  • Looking after yourself


  • Sex


  • Pregnancy


  • Help and Advice


ShineSA has a copy in their library and resource centre if you want to give it a try.



In addition you can see a preview of this resource by emailing them. They will send you a password so that you can view the preview

Females more likely to sext?

An article in medical news today talks about a study done that indicates women are more likely to send ( via mobile phone) sexually explissit photographs of themselves than men. Below you can see some quotes from the article.

Females are more likely to send sexually explicit text messages, often containing nude photographs of themselves than men, researchers from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Washburn University reported in the journal Sexuality and Culture. Approximately two-thirds of women surveyed sent such text messages compared to less than half of men (those surveyed were already a very selected list).


Experts believe that when sexting, males tend to go straight for the hard stuff, while females are more descriptive and prefer carrying out a kind of foreplay in their correspondence. A male is more visually stimulated, while females are driven more by creative fantasy, they added. However, both sexes are stimulated visually.


What I dont see explored in this research is ideas of gender roles, oppression and exploitation of women as ingrained in culture which enables this difference.

To read more of this article ( which also goes onto fidelty and 'is sexting cheating') etc etc go here