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re: gender specific health promotion

“Health promotion policies in particular need to be gender sensitive if their messages are to be heard. Too many campaigns are addressed to women in their role as the carers of others while ignoring their own well-being. Men too often feel that health is women’s business and that health promotion messages are not addressed to them. HIV/AIDS campaigns have simultaneously exhorted women and men to “use a condom” without recognizing the very real differences in power and status that structure most sexual encounters  If this is to change, campaigns need to be designs in ways that encourage both women and men to look after themselves and each other.” - Doyal, L. Sex, gender, and health: the need for a new approach

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14 Mar 2013

State-by-state sex fun

mphlauren:

Fun to click around and see how your state adds up

Massachusetts:

  • MA does not require STD & HIV/AIDS education, although the MA Board of Education “urges local school districts to create programs which make instruction about AIDS/HIV available to every MA student at every grade level”
  • Local school boards decide whether or not to teach sexual education, which subjects this education must cover and the grade level in which topics are introduced
  • There is a statewide anti-harassment / nondiscrimination law that includes sexual orientation but NOT gender identity; furthermore, there are no statewide anti-bullying laws to protect students based on orientation / identity

Click this link to see more information about sexual health in every state! 

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14 Mar 2013
feminishblog: fuckyeahsexeducation: bittersilver: kawaiiflowerchild: This is why I don’t believe guys who tell me that the condom is too small. When I was in middle school, we had a woman come teach us about contraception, and literally the first thing she told us was ‘Ladies, if a guy ever tells you he can’t wear condoms because they’re too small, he’s lying’ and then proceeded to open a condom and stretch it up her forearm up to her elbow. This is not relative to this blog but I didn’t know it was possible. I’d just like to say that things like hands and feet are of course going to stretch out condoms as they have bones. Penises are a lot softer and more sensitive so it is important to find condoms that do fit. You may be able to do the above with regular condoms but it may cut off circulation or be uncomfortable for certain penises. You DEFINITELY can find a condom that fits, go up in sizes or try different brands as sizing is different, or try different styles or if all else fails use an internal condom. However, this is kind of spreading some misinformation. It can be difficult to hold an erection if you aren’t wearing the right size of condom, you may have pain or discomfort or cause circulation problems.  IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ ^^ ABOVE ^^ COMMENTARY (don’t want people leaving with misinformation). You can find a condom that fits. The one you have on hand may not fit though. Be correctly prepared.

feminishblog:

fuckyeahsexeducation:

bittersilver:

kawaiiflowerchild:

This is why I don’t believe guys who tell me that the condom is too small.

When I was in middle school, we had a woman come teach us about contraception, and literally the first thing she told us was ‘Ladies, if a guy ever tells you he can’t wear condoms because they’re too small, he’s lying’ and then proceeded to open a condom and stretch it up her forearm up to her elbow.

This is not relative to this blog but I didn’t know it was possible.

I’d just like to say that things like hands and feet are of course going to stretch out condoms as they have bones. Penises are a lot softer and more sensitive so it is important to find condoms that do fit. You may be able to do the above with regular condoms but it may cut off circulation or be uncomfortable for certain penises. You DEFINITELY can find a condom that fits, go up in sizes or try different brands as sizing is different, or try different styles or if all else fails use an internal condom. However, this is kind of spreading some misinformation. It can be difficult to hold an erection if you aren’t wearing the right size of condom, you may have pain or discomfort or cause circulation problems. 

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ ^^ ABOVE ^^ COMMENTARY (don’t want people leaving with misinformation). You can find a condom that fits. The one you have on hand may not fit though. Be correctly prepared.

(Source: jonnovstheinternet, via fortunatelight)

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6 Jan 2013
pubhealth: Mortality: H.I.V.-Positive Smokers Lose More Years to Tobacco Than to the Virus, a Study Says H.I.V. patients who obtain good treatment but who smoke lose more years of life to tobacco than to the virus, a new Danish study has found. The study, which looked at nearly 3,000 Danish H.I.V. patients from 1995 — the year antiretroviral triple therapy became standard — to 2010, was published online last month by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. A 35-year-old H.I.V. patient who did not smoke was likely to live to age 78, while one who smoked was likely to die before age 63, the report found. (From The New York Times)

pubhealth:

Mortality: H.I.V.-Positive Smokers Lose More Years to Tobacco Than to the Virus, a Study Says

H.I.V. patients who obtain good treatment but who smoke lose more years of life to tobacco than to the virus, a new Danish study has found.

The study, which looked at nearly 3,000 Danish H.I.V. patients from 1995 — the year antiretroviral triple therapy became standard — to 2010, was published online last month by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

A 35-year-old H.I.V. patient who did not smoke was likely to live to age 78, while one who smoked was likely to die before age 63, the report found.

(From The New York Times)

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