SEX RESOURCES

See also the topics Contraception, Pregnancy, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment and STD's in the Encyclopedia.

ORGANIZATIONS

Advocates for Youth
Champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.  This site features section for teens and other information, plus links to sites about HIV prevention, healthy sexuality, peer education, teen pregnancy prevention and more!

Gravityteens.com - Abstinence

A site geared for teens with helpful and inspiring information and testimonies about abstinence and secondary viginity.

Healthy Futures
Promoting sexual health through abstinence. Be sure to check out their teen website: http://www.doinitright.org/

 

 

 

 

SIECUS
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. See especially their publications page under Media. 

 

 

 

Sunburst Visual Media
Provides secular supplemental learning products to help educators engage and inspire students of all ages and abilities. See their Sex Education curriculum.

 

 

 

True Love Waits
Christian abstinence movement for teens.

 

 

ARTICLES

 

 

 

Heins, M. (1996, October). "A birth control crusader." The Atlantic Monthly. Describes its historical development in the US.

 

Norris, Kathleen (1996) “Learning to Love: Benedictine Women on Celibacy and Relationship,” The Cloister Walk, Riverhead Press, 384 pp.

 

 

 

Winner, F. Lauren, “Sex in the Body of Christ,” Christianity Today, May05 [see EYS Review].
Lauren Winner here becomes vulnerable in sharing her own sexual history.

 

BOOKS

 

Chen, C.M. (1996). The Sex side of life: Mary Ware Dennett’s Pioneering battle for birth control and sex education. The New Press. This book offers interesting historical insights into changing attitudes on birth control and sex education.

 

Harrison, P.F. & Rosenfield, A. (eds.). (1998). Contraceptive research: Introduction and use: Lessons from Norplant.

 

Lookadoo, Justin, et al. (2004) The Dateable Rules: A Guide to the Sexes. Fleming Revell Company, 144pp.

 

__________________ (2003) Dateable: Are You? Are They? Fleming Revell Company, 224pp.

 

McDowell, J. (1987). Why Wait: What you need to know about the Teen Sexuality Crisis. When this book was written, there was an ongoing national campaign entitled, "Why wait?", encouraging premarital sexual abstinence. McDowell articulately describes the sexual crisis among teens and offers good advice for abstaining from sex before marriage.

 

Nofziger, M. (1992). A Cooperative method of natural birth control. (4th ed.). Book Publishing Co. Describes a safe, non evasive and effective method of birth control based on recording and interpretation of signs and signals from a woman’s own body. Has received recommendation from family planning centers.

 

Speck, Greg (1989) Sex: It’s Worth Waiting For, Moody Press, 221 pp.  This book for teenagers is well spoken of.  It gets right to the point; it is biblical and Christocentric; it invites discussion.

 

Speroff, L. & Darney, P.D. (1997). A Clinical guide for Contraception.

Winner, F. Lauren (2005) Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, Brazos

, 175 pp.  This book is refreshingly different from most books on this subject. It is highly recommended. Its author writes with stunning candor, dealing with sexual issues in a clear and uncompromising way without becoming judgmental. She is also vulnerable and candid about her own sexual history.