The Bulletin is a free resource for you to use with with young people. It’s a newsletter from my website for young people BISH: ‘a guide to sex, love, and you for over 14s’. As you can see it’s a combination of articles, activities, images, and games. Just do a back to back print and[…]
It can be difficult for practitioners to engage with young men around RSE (relationships and sex/sexuality education). This article considers why that might be and what we can do about it.
I was chatting with my sex educator mate Alice Hoyle about showing videos in RSE and here’s a summary of our thoughts on this. As you can see, we’re not huge fans of this approach, but we do have some top tips at the end.
We should stop exaggerating pregnancy risks in RSE. It has many unintended outcomes and it isn’t accurate. Just as it’s counter-productive to hype up the risks of STIs it’s also counter-productive to hype up the risks of pregnancy.
One area where RSE really sits in the context of the broader PSHE curriculum is in doing anti-oppression work. Inclusive RSE is a really important aspect of this, making sure that everyone feels visible in our materials and resources. It’s also important that we aren’t reproducing a one size fits all version of sex and[…]
RSE practitioners might be tempted to show graphic pictures of STIs. Here I’ll argue why this is a bad and counterproductive teaching method in relationships and sex education.
Here are my responses to the RSE Consultation which I did yesterday (I know I know, I’ve had weeks to do it, but it’s just me here). It’s a big consultation and it’s unwieldy, but if you wanted to have your say about the content of the RSE guidelines for secondary schools then that would[…]
Here’s a quick blog of my top tips for teaching about consent and to give you an idea of what good practice looks like. No, don’t watch the Tea and Consent video.
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