You're Teaching My Child What? (34 page)

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SIECUS,
http://www.siecus.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=502&grandparentID=472&parentID=494
.

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Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman,
Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1996), 13.Recommended by
gURL.com
, Planned Parenthood, and SIECUS.

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But at
outproud.com
(recommended on teenwire), it's like being short or tall (
www.outproud.org/brochure_be_yourself.html
), and at PFLAG (SIECUS link) it's like being left- or right-handed (community.
pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=290
)—rather insignificant.

15
Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., Lauren R. Noyes, and Shannan Martin, “The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women: A Book of Charts”; available online at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/upload/44695_2.pdf
.

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“Why do nice guys always finish last?” GoAskAlice!,
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1698.html
.

17
This is based on the famous Kinsey scale.

18
Planned Parenthood, “Sexual Orientation & Gender,”
http://www.planned-parenthood.org/health-topics/sexual-orientation-gender-4329.htm
.

19
“Be Yourself: Questions and Answers for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth,”
http://www.outproud.org/brochure_be_yourself.html
.

20
“Fantasizing in the wrong direction?” GoAskAlice!,
www.goaskalicecms.org/scripts/printerfriendly.cfm?questionid=5919
.

21
“Sexual orientation: continuum,”
http://www.gURL.com/react/think/pages/0,,672040,00.html
.

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Very hazardous, when it comes to sexual behavior!

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“Is it natural to be confused or question your sexuality at a young age?”
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/teen-talk/ask/lesbian-gay-bisexual-trans/questioning/Is-it-natural-be-confused-question-sexuality-at-young-age-25737.htm
.

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Coalition for Positive Sexuality,
http://www.positive.org
.

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Recommended to teens by SIECUS.

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Advocates for Youth,
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/safe-space/faq.htm
.

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GoAskAlice!,
www.goaskalice.com
.

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“Should I explore my sexuality?” GoAskAlice!,
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1093.html
.

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“I'm 15 and bisexual, but how do I know for sure?”
http://www.scarleteen.com/article/advice/im_15_and_bisexual_but_how_do_i_know_for_sure
.

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Before it became “Teen Talk.”

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“In fact, ‘normal' may not exist... ‘sexually normal' is a subjective term, and defined by a certain culture at a certain time.”
www.goaskalicecms.org/scripts/printerfriendly.cfm?questionid=5919
.

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“You can say to yourself every day, ‘I'm a lesbian and I'm okay.' ” (In Advocates for Youth's “I Think I Might Be Lesbian, Now What Do I Do?: A Brochure by and for Young Women,” 9.)

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“Your e-mail will also be read by the peer education supervisor.” This individual is not identified.

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“Peer Support,”
http://www.youthresource.com/peer/index.htm
.

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“Peer Educator: Devin,”
http://www.youthresource.com/peer/devin.htm
.

36
Theodora writes in a later installment of her diagnosis with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Due to this potentially serious condition, she has an excess of male hormones. The treatment, however, will make her body more female. That's the last thing she wants, since she feels that she is male. Theodora's situation is a mess. Can't Advocates for Youth do a better job finding help for confused teens?

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Site recommended to teens by SIECUS.

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“A Girl Kisses a Girl . . . Is She Lesbian? Straight? Bi?”
http://www.sexetc.org/story/glbtq/2163
.

39
This organization also recommends
gURL.com
's
Deal With It!
—containing explicit and vulgar material—to teens ages 14 and above, and to parents, Planned Parenthood's
All About Sex
(mentioned earlier).

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“Congratulations to Elizabeth Schroeder,”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LFL/is_2006_Summer-Fall/ai_n17215455
.

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“A Girl Kisses a Girl . . . Is She Lesbian? Straight? Bi?”
http://www.sexetc.org/story/glbtq/2163
.

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Come to think of it, Pomeroy was also chairman of SIECUS's board of directors; is urging teens to explore sexuality a requirement of that position?

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Since 1998. See
www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/slides/adolescents/slides/adolescents_4.pdf
.

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Especially racial/ethnic minority young people.

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And many health providers.

46
Again, this indicates the reliance on condoms, which—as has been discussed—do not provide adequate “protection.”

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“HIV infection and AIDS in adolescents: An update of the position of the Society for Adolescent Medicine” (position paper),
Journal of Adolescent Health
38 (2006): 88; National Office of AIDS Policy.
Youth and HIV/AIDS 2000: A New American Agenda.

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A majority in young people of color.

49
“Communities at Risk: Youth,”
www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/population/youth.asp
.

50
GLB youth are more likely to have been sexually abused or victimized; this partially explains their higher risk behaviors.

51
Robert Garofalo, R. Cameron Wolf, Shari Kessel, Judith Palfrey, and Robert H. DuRant, “The Association between Health Risk Behaviors and Sexual Orientation among a School-Based Sample of Adolescents,”
Pediatrics
101 (1998): 895–902; Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Linda H. Bearinger, Robert Wm. Blum, and Michael D. Resnick, “Sexual Intercourse, Abuse and Pregnancy among Adolescent Women: Does Sexual Orientation Make a Difference?”
Family Planning Perspectives
31, no. 3 (May/June 1999): 127–31; Goodenow C., Netherland ], Szalacha L. “Aids related risk among adolescent males who have sex with males, females, or both: evidence from a statewide survey
American Journal of Public Health
, 92 (2002): 203–10; Bryan N. Cochran, MS, Angela J. Stewart, BA, Joshua A. Ginzler, Ph.D., and Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D., “Challenges faced by homeless sexual minorities: comparison of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender homeless adolescents with their heterosexual counterparts,”
American Journal of Public Health
92 (2002): 773–77; S. M. Blake, R. Ledsky, T. Lehman, C. Goodenow, R. Sawyer, and T. Hack, “Preventing sexual risk behaviors among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents: the benefits of gay-sensitive HIV instruction in schools,”
American Journal of Public Health
91 (2001): 940–46; E. M. Saewyce, C. L. Skay, L. H. Bearinger, R. W. M. Blum, and M. D. Resnick, “Sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and pregnancy among American Indian adolescents,”
Journal of Adolescent Health
23, no. 4 (1998): 238–47.

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Robert Garofalo, R. Cameron Wolf, Shari Kessel, Judith Palfrey, and Robert H. DuRant, “The Association between Health Risk Behaviors and Sexual Orientation among a School-Based Sample of Adolescents”; Bryan N. Cochran, MS, Angela J. Stewart, BA, Joshua A. Ginzler, Ph.D., and Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D., “Challenges faced by homeless sexual minorities: comparison of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender homeless adolescents with their heterosexual counterparts”; and S. M. Blake, R. Ledsky, T. Lehman, G. Goodnew, R. Sawyer, and T. Hack, “Preventing sexual risk behaviors among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents: the benefits of gay-sensitive HIV instruction in schools.”

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Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Linda H. Bearinger, Robert Wm. Blum, and Michael D. Resnick, “Sexual Intercourse, Abuse and Pregnancy among Adolescent Women: Does Sexual Orientation Make a Difference?”; Goodenow C., Netherland, Szalacha L. “Aids related risk among adolescent males who have sex with males, females, or both: evidence from a statewide survey”; Bryan N. Cochran, MS, Angela J. Stewart, BA, Joshua A. Ginzler, Ph.D., and Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D., “Challenges faced by homeless sexual minorities: comparison of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender homeless adolescents with their heterosexual counterparts”; Rotheram-Borus MJ, Marelich WD, Srinivasan S. HIV risk among homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual male and female youths,”
Arch Sex Behavior
28 (1999):159–77.

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Robert Garofalo, R. Cameron Wolf, Shari Kessel, Judith Palfrey, and Robert H. DuRant, “The Association between Health Risk Behaviors and Sexual Orientation among a School-Based Sample of Adolescents”; Goodenow C., and Netherland, Szalacha L. “Aids related risk among adolescent males who have sex with males, females, or both: evidence from a statewide survey.” Note also that GLBTQ youth are twice as likely to use alcohol, three times more likely to use marijuana, and eight times more likely to use crack/cocaine;
http://youthresource.com/health/lives/mental.htm
.

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Duncan MacKellar et al, “Unrecognized HIV infection, Risk Behaviors, and Perceptions of Risk Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: Opportunities for Advancing HIV Prevention in the Third Decade of HIV/AIDS,”
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
38 no.5 (2005).

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Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Linda H. Bearinger, Robert Wm. Blum, and Michael D. Resnick, “Sexual Intercourse, Abuse and Pregnancy among Adolescent Women: Does Sexual Orientation Make a Difference?”; Robin L, Brener ND, Donahue SF, Hack T, Hale K, and Goodenow C, “Associations between health risk behaviors and opposite-, same-, and both-sex sexual partners in representative samples of Vermont and Massachusetts high school students,”
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
156, no. 4 (2002): 349–55; Rotheram-Borus MJ, Marelich WD, and Srinivasan S., “HIV risk among homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual male and female youths.”

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Katherine Fethers, Caron Marks, Adrian Mindel, and Claudia S Estcourt, (2000) “Sexually Transmitted Infections and risk behaviors in women who have sex with women,”
Sexually Transmitted Infections
76 (2000): 345–49.

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“Lesbians are twice as likely as their heterosexual peers to experience unwanted pregnancy,”
http://youthresource.com/health/women/index.htm
.

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Teresa M. Darragh, “Anal Cytology for Anal Cancer Screening: Is it Time Yet?”
Diagnostic Cytopathology
30, no. 6 (2004).

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“Anal Cytology for Anal Cancer Screening,” 2004.

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“Syphilis and MSM (Men Who Have Sex with Men)—CDC Fact Sheet,”
www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/STDFact-MSM&Syphilis.htm#concern
.

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Michele G. Sullivan, “Bisexual College Women at Greatest Risk for STDs,”
Clinical Psychiatry News
, May 2008, 55.

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Interesting that with sex education teaching kids how common SSA and SS behavior are, only 3 percent in this large sample of women are self-described as bisexual, 1 percent as lesbian, and 1 percent as unsure.

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Surveys of almost 40,000 people in Massachusetts on overall health status indicated poorer health was observed most often for bisexuals. Regarding mental health alone, 21 percent of straight/heterosexual, 25 percent of gay/lesbian/homosexual, and 45 percent of bisexual adults reported feeling tense or worried for more than 14 of the last 30 days. 16 percent of straight/heterosexual and gay/lesbian/homosexual and 29 percent of bisexual adults reported feeling sad or blue for more than 14 of the last 30 days. 3 percent of straight/heterosexual, 4 percent of gay/lesbian/homosexual, and 29 percent of bisexual adults reported that they seriously considered suicide in the prior 12 months. 8 percent of straight/heterosexual, 17 percent of gay/lesbian/homosexual, and 34 percent of bisexual adults reported illicit Drug use at some point in the last 30 days. See Anthony F. Jorm et al, “Sexual Orientation and Mental Health: results from a community survey of young and middle-aged adults”
, British Journal of Psychiatry
180 (2002): 423–27, and
http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dph/health_equity/sexual_orientation_disparities_report.pdf
.

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“Gay Marriage Goes Dutch,” CBS News Online,
http://www.cbsnewscom/stories/2001/04/01/world/main283071.shtml
.

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Eric D. Widmer, Judith Treas, and Robert Newcomb, “Attitudes Toward Nonmarital Sex in 24 Countries,”
The Journal of Sex Research
35, no. 4 (1998): 349–58.

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G. Stolte, N. H. Dukers, J. B. de Wit, H. Fennema, R. A. Coutinho, “A summary report from Amsterdam: increase in sexually transmitted diseases and risky sexual behavior among homosexual men in relation to the introduction of new anti-HIV Drugs,”
European Surveillance
7, no.2 (February 2002):19–22; A. K. Van der Bij, I. G. Stolte, R. A. Coutinho, N. H. Dukers, “Increase of sexually transmitted infections, but not HIV, among young homosexual men in Amsterdam: are STIs still reliable markers for HIV transmission?”
Sex Transm Infect
81, no.1 (February 2005):34–37; J. S. Fennema, I. Cairo, and R. A. Coutinho, “Substantial increase in gonorrhea and syphilis among clients of Amsterdam Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic,”
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
144, no.13 (March 2000): 602–3; Ineke G. Stolte et al, “Low HIV-testing rates among younger high-risk homosexual men in Amsterdam,”
Sex Transm Infect
83 (2007): 387–91; E. M. van der Snoek et al, “Prevalence of STD and HIV infections among attendees of the Erasmus MC STD clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, during the years 1996 to 2000,”
International Journal of STD&AIDS
14 (2003): 119–24.