This as a response to a comment I recently received on another post. I decided to make it into a post so that more people would see my response (just in case they had a similar question). Here is the comment I’m answering:
“Its need a private place to get information about teens health, growth, and emotions. Where I can get doctor-approved info I need to understand? WBR LeoP”
I am not sure what you mean by “its,” but I do know of a couple of excellent sex-ed websites:
(I also link to these two sites on my Links page.)
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This is a research brief that I wrote for school last semester.
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On the Dehumanization of Sex Workers
by Katie Armistead
Dehumanization is happening in the world today. An example of this is the dehumanization of sex workers.
“Whore” is often used as a derogatory term; this is common knowledge. This seems just as dehumanizing to sex workers as using “gay” as a derogatory term is to homosexual people. This is also proof that sex workers are often considered lowly creatures in many cultures today.
Many people seem to think that a person who is a sex worker cannot be raped. Because of this unfortunate, but commonly held belief, sex workers are very rarely able to prosecute rapists (Karen 145-146, Lockett 39-40, Gardener). An example of this from 2003 is a case mentioned in a publication by the Human Rights Watch. According to their publication, “one police officer suggested that because a woman who had been abducted was a prostitute, her case was not rape, despite the fact that the woman reported it as rape and there was evidence of significant bruising and other injuries.” Not only do many police officers not protect sex workers, but sometimes they are the people who rape or otherwise harm the sex workers (Lockett 39-40).
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