STDs

Culture Clash: STD App’s Naming Gaffe Goes Viral

April 3, 2014 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

July 19, 2014 Update: Mahalo and 'Ho'omaika'i 'ana (thank you and congratulations) for the corporate social responsibility exhibited by the Hula app founders and developers who have officially renamed … [Read more...]

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Youth Aids Day: First Gen Who’ve Never Known a World Without HIV

April 10, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Nov. 25, 2015 Update World Aids Day is coming up Dec. 1st, and Durex is promoting the creation of a "condom emoji" to be used via social media to shorthand safety messages for public health. April … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, AIDS, AIDS Awareness, AIDS-free generation, Campaign to End AIDS, comprehensive sex ed, First National Youth HIV AIDS Awareness Day, Get Yourself Tested, GYT, HIV, HIV positive, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Kaiser educational theater, Kaiser Permanente sex ed, LGBTQ, NYHAAD, Red Pump Project, reproductive rights, Secrets, Sex education, sex-education-teens, sexual assault, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, STDs, STDS/HIV-exposure, Victim blaming, youth, Youth Aids Day, Youth HIV testing, Youth public health, YTH.org

Glee Teen Sex: Facts & Opportunities Using CDC vs. Hollywood TV

November 21, 2011 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Nov. 20, 2011 Truth is, Hollywood is lying about teen sex. Big time. New CDC research points to numbers that might as well frame Hollywood shows as a public health statistical version of ‘The Lying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abstinence, Advocates-for-youth, APA sexualization study, birth rates down, CDC October 2011, CDC Teen Sexual Health, compassion boom, comprehensive sex ed, First Times, Glee, Glee on Fox, Glee Season 3, health literacy, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Hollywood Health & Society, hyper-sexualizing, Kids health, Kids Prime Time TV, Kurt and Blaine, LGBTQ, media-literacy, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, Rachel and Finn, sex sells, sex-education-teens, sexed, SexTech, Sexual Teens, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, So Sexy So Soon, socio emotional health, STD-prevention, STDs, suspension of disbelief, teen dating violence, teen moms, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teenagers having sex now in minority, The First Time, the talk, Tips for talking about virginity and sex in teen dramas, virginity, youth sexual health

Sexy Broccoli, Saucy 6 Year Olds & Why SexEd is a Must: SexTech Pt.3

February 21, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Feb 21, 2010 Last night I snapped this lousy iPhone shot from Draeger’s deli as I scanned the takeout selections to treat myself to a quiet Sat. night feast. I did a double-take when I saw “sexy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, AIDS, Amplify, Anatasia Goodstein, Birds and bees, Bom411, Boss of Me, broccoli, dating abuse, Deb-Levine, Diane Levin, domestic violence, Gender, HIV, Isis, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, Kids health, kids-fitness, Margaret Lucas, Media, Media Project, media-literacy, National teen dating abuse, objectification, prevention, Safe World for Women, Scarleteen, sexed, sexperts, sexploitation, SexTech, sexual health, sexuality, Sexy, So Sexy So Soon, STDs, teen moms, Teen talk, teen voices, The National Campaign, totally wired, Twitter, Women2Follow, YPulse

Say What? Top Queries From Teens About Sex + Adult Responses Pt.2

February 20, 2010 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Feb. 20, 2010 Remember the old adage ‘There’s no such thing as a stupid question?’ Wish I could say the same for some of these answers, muttered by adults groping for verbiage to handle tense … [Read more...]

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26 Nov

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says his network’s friendly interview with Trump, “put in doubt the independence of our news department.”

"We cannot... offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

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16 Nov

Out today! A driver's manual for staying sane on the internet. @holden

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16 Nov

As @jayrosen_nyu so clearly states, it's "not the odds, but the stakes"...Media and #journo can convey context without partisan pandering, clearly citing facts on autocracy objectively...@Sulliview is right, the public deserves to be informed. #NewsLiteracy #democracy

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16 Nov

Dangerous 🆘📢to see this, given they've once AGAIN just enabled their platform to post lies claiming a rigged election when it was not! This is how democracies are overthrown with #misinformation Have media learned nothing? #Journo pay attention! WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-allows-ads-claiming-rigged-2020-election-on-facebook-instagram-309b678d?mod=e2tw

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