Sex In The Public Square - sex education - Comments

Age bracketing

Elizabeth — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:21:28 -0800

That's an interesting issue, Charles. What kinds of age brackets would seem proper?

As Looong as...

Charles Masterson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:51:05 -0800

Provided the ages are bracketed properly, sex workshops should work out OK. I'm not for cross aging.

And the winners are.......

Elizabeth — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:05:13 -0800

1st place: Kylee Darcy, for "Talking to the hand"

2nd place: Robert Valls for "101 Movie Trailer"

3rd place: Jeremy Fisher for "Sketching out a better sex ed program"

Click here to see the winners. And congratulations to each of them!

Good for them

Random Visitor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:16:12 -0800

I'm wondering how and when the whole abstinence-only thing got started anyway. Maybe the area I grew up in was unusual, but my middle-school sex education was definitely not abstinence-only, and even included having the students practice putting a condom on a banana.

Virgin's "Everlasting love" campaign

Elizabeth — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:37:19 -0800

TracyA, that's amazing. I don't think Virgin Money has a presence in the US, so I don't think we'll be seeing the ads here (and I'm not sure they'd fly here anyway ... a different question). But how cool to see sexy ads that show older folks.

Here's a link to a different news story about the campaign that shows another ad from the same series:

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,22359972-12531,00.html

great pic

tracya — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:39:37 -0800

i totally agree that womens sexual "problems" and of those that accompany the natural aging process...meaning they happen to all of us....impotence is the featured dysfunction but female incontinence, dryness, lack of libido, lack of or loss of partner, even social conditioning which stigmatizes masturbation...can all effect coping with aging.

depression is so rampant in the elderly and yet an active intimate relationship (however it is defined by an individual) is probably the highest indicator of happiness in old age.

i was looking for a pic of a billboard that was all over england earlier this year, it featured a naked elderly couple from behind and i believe it was related to the the 5 a day campaign...but i found this pic instead and i have to say i love it even more!!!

believe it or not it's an advert for Virgin...big congrats to richard branson...i take back all the awful things i've said about him before!

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/virgin_on_love/

Oh, I'm not opposed

Elizabeth — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:31:30 -0800

to the US providing penis pumps as long as they do some good for the people who receive them (though I'd prefer if the Medicare administrators did some shopping around for reasonable prices). It's just very important to me that women's sexuality is taken as seriously and sex education for older folks is also covered.

sometimes a man needs help...

tracya — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:01:57 -0800

by the nature of sexual activity, it can be assumed that all responsibility lies with the man and his erect penis and the woman just lies there in submission.

i would argue that libido and yes, lubrication matters!!!! a woman needs to feel desire, needs to feel that she is participating/facilitating the act. hence, the need for lube...

as a woman on the verge of 50 with a 53 year old lover, i can say we do run into occasional difficulties...nothing that can't be resolved with imaginative D/s...

aging requires an open mind and ability to communicate desires

sorry, missed the original point

tracya — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:28:32 -0800

just went back this morning and read elizabeth's original post...i'm not so sure i would support medicare funding this kind of pump...

also, want to mention that my mom told me that my stepfather gets treatment at the VA and they hand out viagra like candy!!!

types of pumps?

Elizabeth — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:33:51 -0800

That doesn't seem to be the kind of thing the article is talking about, though it sounds like a pretty intense solution! The article is talking about a product that can be purchased on the Internet, so I'm guessing not a surgically implanted thing.

Your mention of diabetes made me thing of another issue: The packaging on one of the pumps written about by Corey Silverberg apparently warns users to avoid the product if they have diabetes or problems with blood clotting, both things that older men are likely to have to worry about! Maybe that's why the US only purchased about 47,000 pumps last year ($21 million/$450 per pump) even though there were about 16 million men over the age of 65...

Good point about the lube....

Slutty McWhore — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:16:35 -0800

No, Medicare is never likely to pay for lube for women because female sexuality (which doesn't include a penis to stick out for all the world to see) is less "visible" than male sexuality - or that's how men see it at least. Speaking of penis pumps, I'm an erotic masseuse (oh, don't judge me - I've got to make a living somehow) and I've actually seen one in action. It was fitted inside the penis of an older man who'd become impotent because of diabetes. He seemed happy with it, but it was a very odd device. The pump was situated in the testicles, so he'd squeeze the testicles to pump it up.

What's really pissin' me off

JanieBelle — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:07:42 -0800

Is their pussyfooting around. They got a clear mandate last year that this kind of crap should end.

The people spoke, and they said "enough".

Yet the Democrats seem to be playing this game of "we don't want to push too hard, too fast, and overstep". It's like they're afraid their popularity in the polls is so low because they've done too much fighting against the White House and His Holiness The Glorified Houseplant Who Would Be Caesar, when in fact their numbers are in the toilet because they're not doing enough!

Somebody beat them with the frakkin' cluestick, so we can get on with the criminal trials!

I would have inserted an "n" in "dam-ocrats"...

Elizabeth — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:18:23 -0700

...because of how infuriating their actions are. They aren't just stopping up importantt things, they're increasing the flow of abhorrent things.

Call 'em "Dam-ocrats"...

will — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:39:39 -0700

...for all their stopping up the flow of things!

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Elizabeth — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:58:41 -0700

Sumarlidr, I think that's a great book too. In fact, we reviewed it on this site. Check out the review here and feel free to add your own comments beneath it!