#756

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:24:57 -0500
From: Colleen Mahoney <cmahoney@WADSNET.COM>
Subject: It's Your (Sex) Life

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Hi Everyone!

I recently became aware that Kaiser has joined with MTV to develop a booklet, It's Your (Sex) Life: Your Guide to Safe and Responsible Sex which targets teens. The booklet can be uploaded at http://www.kff.org/youthhivstds/upload/MTV_Think_IYSL_Booklet.pdf. The word about this campaign has been spreading through our community and there are many appalled. Personally/professionally I am not appalled.

I recommend that you check it out if you are not familiar with it. I am interested in hearing your reactions and whether or not others have dealt with the frantic reactions of a community.

Thanks! Colleen Mahoney
Colleen Mahoney, Ph.D.
Health Promotion/Positive Youth Development Consultant, Mahoney Consulting Group
Coordinator, Assets in Motion (AIM) www.wadsworthaim.com
Wadsworth OH

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#757

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:51 -0600
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB" <kittle@SIU.EDU>
Subject: Re: It's Your (Sex) Life

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Colleen,

This is a very well written booklet. I am still amazed that in the 21st century we still have people who believe that knowledge is harmful. I remember when Bob Gold was AAHE Scholar back in the late 80s...he had an excellent presentation called "Knowledge is Power" (or something like that)...seems counter to some of the today's beliefs by the fanatical minority who believe that knowledge is harmful.


Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB
Professor, Health Education
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Health Education & Recreation Southern Illinois University
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Subject: It's Your (Sex) Life

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Hi Everyone!

I recently became aware that Kaiser has joined with MTV to develop a booklet, It's Your (Sex) Life: Your Guide to Safe and Responsible Sex which targets teens. The booklet can be uploaded at http://www.kff.org/youthhivstds/upload/MTV_Think_IYSL_Booklet.pdf. The word about this campaign has been spreading through our community and there are many appalled. Personally/professionally I am not appalled.

I recommend that you check it out if you are not familiar with it. I am interested in hearing your reactions and whether or not others have dealt with the frantic reactions of a community.

Thanks! Colleen Mahoney
Colleen Mahoney, Ph.D.
Health Promotion/Positive Youth Development Consultant, Mahoney Consulting Group
Coordinator, Assets in Motion (AIM) www.wadsworthaim.com
Wadsworth OH

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#758

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:22:47 +0200
From: Ansa Ojanlatva <ansoja@UTU.FI>
Subject: Re: It's Your (Sex) Life

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Hi,
the booklet seems unusually clear at first glance. A couple of issues to mention otherwise...

There has been a movement to call std by a new name (sti). In this country, they have also been called infections alone without the unnecessary assumed moral load. Second, "HPV or Genital Warts" does not show the whole picture.

A dissertation was published on parental issues here a few weeks ago. The studies involved with it indicated that intimate contact is not always necessary for the spread of HPV (more than 100 kinds mentioned in the booklet, which is good) especially in mother infant communication... and that some infections eventually heal by themselves.

Some clinically interesting features came up as well. It was mentioned e.g. that seroconversion in infancy/early childhood might be helpful in building antibodies and protect later when it might result in more serious outomes. Seroconversion with HPV 16 or 18 was cited rare and weak; these have been noted as the serious kinds of HPV associated with cervical cancer in the past. So protection is needed as transmission is likely to take place in intimare genital contact.

For 20 years, I have been asking clinicians and researchers about what inactivates the HPV virus and I have not been given a conclusive response as yet. This study did not offer insight in that respect.

So, some of the information is not complete but then we never get to there anyway. There'll always be something to talk about.


Ansa Ojanlatva
University of Turku, Finland




Hi Everyone!

I recently became aware that Kaiser has joined with MTV to develop a booklet, It's Your (Sex) Life: Your Guide to Safe and Responsible Sex which targets teens. The booklet can be uploaded at http://www.kff.org/youthhivstds/upload/MTV_Think_IYSL_Booklet.pdf. The word about this campaign has been spreading through our community and there are many appalled. Personally/professionally I am not appalled.

I recommend that you check it out if you are not familiar with it. I am interested in hearing your reactions and whether or not others have dealt with the frantic reactions of a community.

Thanks! Colleen Mahoney
Colleen Mahoney, Ph.D.
Health Promotion/Positive Youth Development Consultant, Mahoney Consulting Group
Coordinator, Assets in Motion (AIM) www.wadsworthaim.com
Wadsworth OH

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