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In this issue:
• Please Join Us!
• Register in OPTIONS' Immigrant Father's Project
• Being Bullied Has Effect on Sexual Behaviour
• Doctors Say: Unplanned Pregnancies Rooted in
False Beliefs
• Condoms Wanted
• Sex Doesn't Have to Get Old for Elderly
• New Female Condom Approved in U.S.A.
• New York Plans to Make Gender a Personal Choice
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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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Register in
OPTIONS' Immigrant Father's Project
Parenting Between Two Cultures
Each session offers an
opportunity for fathers to enjoy fun free activities to strengthen
relationships with their families. Locations include: Royal
Alberta Museum,
Fort Edmonton
Park, Valley Zoo, Rundle Park
Topics include:
Balancing Family and Work
Helping Children Deal with
Racism
Parent - Child Communication
Discipline
Problem Solving in Family
Relationships
Sessions on offered on
Saturdays 2 - 4 pm starting April 25th
REGISTER NOW
Call Dereje/DJ at (780)
423-3737 ext 205
dereje@optionssexualhealth.ca
SPACE IS LIMITED Register by
April 17th.
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Being Bullied Has
Effect on Sexual Behaviour
By Shannon
Proudfoot, Canwest News Service Being
teased or ostracized in middle and high school shapes the sexual behaviour
of young adults years later, according to the results of a study which
suggest it also affects boys and girls in opposite ways.
>> Click
here for article.
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Doctors Say:
Unplanned Pregnancies Rooted in False Beliefs
Canwest News
Service, National Post Dr. Wilf Steinberg calls it the unicorn theory. He
is talking about some of the beliefs held by teens about contraception. For
example, you can only get pregnant if you have an orgasm. Or, you can't get
pregnant the first time you have sex. The gynecologist and assistant
professor, department of obstetric and gynaecology at the University of Toronto,
has heard it all. But this fantasy thinking is not limited to teens. In
fact, many women aged 40 and beyond believe their age is contraception
enough.
>> Click
here for article.
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Condoms Wanted
ZOSIA
BIELSKI From Wednesday's Globe and Mail March 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM EDT Calling
all Windsor
men: The university needs your used rubbers. University
of Windsor in Ontario is looking for 100 of the city's
men to amass their used condoms for three months and drop them off at
campus labs - for $50. The curious project is testing "failure
rates." Nursing professors are looking for microscopic holes in
condoms exposed to "bedroom pressures." They also need unused
domes - say, ones that have been carried around in a wallet for three
months.
>> Click
here for article.
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Sex Doesn't Have
to Get Old for Elderly
Andrew Stern,
Reuters Getting old does not mean
saying so long to sex, U.S.
researchers said on Wednesday. More than three-quarters of American men
aged 75 to 85 and half of women that age are still interested in sex, a
survey of the elderly by University
of Chicago
researchers found.
>> Click
here for article.
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New Female Condom
Approved in U.S.A.
Kaiser Daily
HIV/AIDS Report The Female Health
Company on Wednesday announced that FDA has approved its FC2 Female Condom
to help prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections such as HIV,
the AP/Forbes reports. With the approval, the lower-cost, new version of
the female condom now will be available in the U.S.
>> Click
here for article.
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New York Plans to Make Gender a Personal Choice
Damien Cave,
The New York Times Separating anatomy
from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a
plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have
not had sex-change surgery.
>> Click
here for article.
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Connecting
Northern Women: Northern Women's Conference
Hosted
by the Quesnel Women's Resource Centre
April
17-19, 2009 Quesnel, BC
Click
here for conference details.
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Take Back the
Night!
7:00
pm, March 27, 2009 Edmonton
Alberta Avenue Community Centre (9210-118 Ave.)
Click
for event details.
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Body Literacy
and Fertility Awareness
Building
Community & Envisioning the Future
(A
Serious Conference & Academic Pyjama Party)
May 14
to May 17, 2009 Edmonton
Click
here for conference details.
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Alberta Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health
Register
for our Online Workshops!
Our
next workshop starts on March 30, 2009.
Click
here for list of workshops.
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Body Image
& Self-Esteem: Shades of Grey Conference
Presented
by the National Eating Disorder Information Centre
May 11
- 12, 2009 Toronto
Click
here for conference details.
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What it takes!
Sex, Passion, Romance, Adventure...Do you have what it
takes?
A Canadian safer sex campaign for gay/bisexual men.
Click
here for campaign webpage.
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Hope,
Resilience & Psychological Trauma
Presented
by Community Voices Against Sexual Violence
May
11-12, 2009, Edmonton
Click
here for conference details.
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