Comments on: For a Broken Condom, Press 1

By: Flavored condoms

Flavored condoms — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:20:50 +0000

I profess the use text messaging for spreading the awareness of “CONDOMS” among young people.
The same campaign was launched by DiscountCondomKing.com last month, we were thrilled by the response to the campaign.
Different types of information messages were sent to thousands of youths in TEXAS.
The content of the messages was devised around :
1) What are Condoms?
2) Why to use “Condoms”?
3) The emergence of “Female Condoms”.

By: janny

janny — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:48:09 +0000

Great job,,,,,,,,,

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:59:19 +0000

MK, Woohoo! You go girl. Thanks for plugging sexinfo. We are GIANT public library fans. Besides being regular users, public libraries are one of the only places in the U.S. where young people can get free, confidential sexual health information (no Internet filters, no charge for books). Thank you.

Oh, and the Oakland, CA public libraries do make available lists of sex education websites for youth. All the good ones are there — Teenwire, TeenSource, Sex, Etc., ScarletTeen, and some other great sites.
cheers,
Deb

By: MK Eagle

MK Eagle — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:42 +0000

Alas, I’m still a library student, so I’ll have to defer to YALSA folks working in libraries to really answer your question. My hunch from the school libraries I’ve been in recently is that libraries are certainly under-resourced–sometimes woefully so–and that in schools where abstinence-only or otherwise non-comprehensive sex ed is the norm, librarians may be afraid to “cross the party line” in terms of what kind of sexual health information to provide. But hopefully we’re precisely the kind of bold librarians willing to take a risk and give young adults the information they need.

(It’s entirely possible. Did you play rugby, by any chance?)

By: Emily Douglas

Emily Douglas — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:25:12 +0000

MK, thanks for picking up on this story. I think you’re completely right that libraries are an obvious partner in publicizing SexInfo and other new media-based sexual health programs to teens. It’s exciting to see librarians supporting the many innovative ways to bring critical sexual health information to teens who are getting none of it at school. In the absence of factual, informative school sexuality education programs, do you notice teens leaning more heavily on libraries’ resources? Or are libraries just as under-resourced?

Also, did we go to college together?!

–Emily, RH Reality Check