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A simple clear encouragement to both sides of beliefs on homosexuality to work together, and help each other understand acceptance is o.k. Hummmmm.
This could not be farther from the truth. Ofcourse in society you will find extreme opinions against homosexuals, but many, many religions/church bodies today embrace, pray and are very loving towards homosexuals, even though they do not agree with their choice of lifestyle.
Homosexuality for a christian young person who does not share the beliefs of this book will find it's very one sided, and at one point acutally states that God hates homosexuals. to say God or Christians "hate", but if someone says I hate homosexuals, people of color, different race ect, thats called "hate speech".
Christians, nor God practice "hate". Intersting that it's o.k.
Double standards here. No one on either side has to hate.
In addition to a number of colleagues recommending this book over the years, recently at a symposium this resource was deemed as the "turning point in US sexuality education." Quite a claim, so naturally, I couldn't put off picking up a copy at that point. After performing a meta-analysis of resources from 1990 to 2008, I found it quite remarkable how many books and resources have cited and stemmed from this resource, in written, web, curriculum and training formats, and deservedly so. The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality is factual, direct, comprehensive and interweaves many of the critical issues that impact sexual health and decision-making that are usually absent from most other resources. This book seems to have served as the juncture from the "birds and the bees" to open and balanced discussion of sexual health.As a stand-alone read for most teens, or as a teaching resource for physicians, parents, or teachers, I found this book to promote the values of honesty, responsibility, and ethics, and purposely, so it seemed, omit any moral perspective, thus allowing wide use, adoption, and utility among adults from diverse religious perspectives who are interested in infusing their personal moral beliefs within a sexual health framework - this is truly a masterful design.As many of the other reviewers have echoed, I too have found the Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality to be an outstanding, landmark resource.
This is where the parent steps in, to read the book with your child and talk to them about responsible decision making about their body and about sex and to instill your values and morals along with the "how to" book. The book is much a "how to" book. Though this book is VERY informative, I hesitate to encourage people to hand it over to their teen, especially teens younger than 15. I bought it for my 13 year old and hesitated before handing it over to her. How to have sex, what an organism feels like, and how to put on a condom. Yes, it talks about pregnancy, abortion and STD's but it lacks moral decision making. I think I'll read it along with her. I do like that it is up front and answers questions directly.
ITs not that hard to get pregnant. I have only scanned through it but my Wife has read it from cover to cover. My Wife and I ordered this book for our teenage daughter. That does not mean more did not reach the ovum, but only one is used. Our only real concern is that on page 99 the author emplies that there is only a 1 in 600 million chance of being born since only 1 of the 600 million sperm is used to fertilize the ovum. The authors discussion makes it seem that it is hard to get pregnant. Also the 600 million number does not match what I find as a "normal sperm count" , which I find to be 40 and 100 million (20 million per milliliter of semen with 2 to 5 ml as a normal volume) Search the web on the quoted text above.That is just not a reasonable statistical analysis. And in the easy reading format of the book I believe that a teenager could be mislead into believing it is hard to get pregnent.If half stars were available I would have given it a 4 1/2 out of 5.
I've reviewed about a dozen teen sexuality education books for my practice and while there are a few good ones, this one by far leads the pack. - Pertinent topics of interest to teens and parents; easy-to-read format; an abundance of good illustrations; accurate information combined with realistic advice - just a great resource for teens, parents and practitioners like myself.
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