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In this issue:
• Please join us!
• New Prenatal Blood Test Leads to Complex
Questions
• Man Alive: Teens and Gender Roles
• No Need to Whisper: Talking and Treating
Erectile Dysfunction
• Women Spend Five Minutes on Contraception
• Young Canadians' Views on Virginity Vary
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Please join us!
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
OPTIONS Sexual Health Association
invites you to our AGM
11:00 AM, Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Room 30, 9912 106 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
RSVP to Lance at (780) 423-3737 or
lance@optionssexualhealth.ca
A light lunch will be served following the AGM
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New Prenatal
Blood Test Leads to Complex Questions
CAROLYN ABRAHAM From
Saturday's Globe and Mail February 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM
EST Learning about the genetic
health of an unborn child could soon be as simple as giving blood. Yet
as with most advances in reproductive medicine, the new technology is
raising tricky social questions.
>> Click
here for article.
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Man Alive: Teens
and Gender Roles
Man Alive, CBC
Digital Archives, Broadcast date: January 15, 1973 Take
a look back at how gender roles were beginning to change in this 1973
video in which sex educator Mary Calderone talks to six teenagers
about their views on marriage, gender roles and sexual relationships in the
1970s.
>> Click
here to see the video.
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No Need to
Whisper: Talking and Treating Erectile Dysfunction
Medical News Today,
5 February 2009 The conversation about
male sexual dysfunction has grown from a whisper to a roar. From Bob Dole
to Mike Ditka, erectile dysfunction, or ED, is no longer hush-hush as more
men are talking more openly.
>> Click
here for article.
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Women Spend Five
Minutes on Contraception
Medical News Today,
9 February 2009 According to new figures
launched today by fpa (Family Planning Association) almost one in
three UK
women aged 18-49 typically spends up to just five minutes selecting a
suitable contraceptive method to use.
>> Click
here for article.
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Young Canadians'
Views on Virginity Vary
By Shannon
Proudfoot, Canwest News Service Is
virginity a precious gift, a pit-stop on the road to sexual adulthood or an
embarrassing stigma to be shed as soon as possible? New Canadian research
reveals how many teens buy into each notion and how that affects who they
have sex with for the first time and how much they enjoy it.
>> Click
here for article.
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