A growing body of research is investigating the effectiveness of abstinence only sexual education. There remains a dearth of research on the relevant sexual health information available to young men who have sex with men YMSM. Kirby et al. According to Strouse and Fabes , the purpose of sexual education has been to promote healthy sexual relationships, encourage responsible decision-making, and reduce the incidence of unintended teenage pregnancies and STIs. This paper explores the formal sexual education experiences of a sample of YMSM and the more informal sexual education sources they used to fill in their gaps in knowledge.
For me, as a gay man, watching the documentary was traumatic. The interviewed parents defend themselves against accusations they are abusing their children by encouraging them to dress up in drag. But to do so, the parents must purport to separate drag from sex and sexuality, which is simply ahistorical. The kids themselves are very much on message. That last remark actually brought tears to my eyes—though not for the reasons you might think. I cried not because of the homophobia directed against that little boy for dressing in drag.
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We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. In the US, thousands of young homosexuals find themselves stuck in practices aimed at "curing" them of being gay. Mathew Shurka survived the experience, but spent years trying to shake thoughts of suicide. Mathew remembers tears streaming down his face.
S am Khalaf and his son Riyadh used to call themselves the two musketeers. When Riyadh was growing up in Bray, south of Dublin, they were inseparable. Like twins or best friends, they say.