Contemporary Sexuality - December 2008 - (Page 1)

American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists sexuality The international resource for educators, researchers and therapists contemporary December 2008 Vol. 42, No. 12 In this issue HIV infections rise, young males hit hardest ike many American teenagers, Max Siegel didn’t learn much about sex in school. In junior high school, Siegel says a gym teacher told boys in his class that sex is dangerous and it’s better to wait until they “grow up and marry.” “Unfortunately, this abstinence-only lecture was the only education I received on the subject,” Siegel says. At 17, he began seeing a 23-year-old man. “The first time we had sex, I took out a condom, but he ignored it,” Siegel says. As a result, Siegel says he “contracted HIV from the first person with whom I consented to having unprotected sex.” In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data showing that young gay men like Siegel are being infected at startingly high rates. Among males age 13-24, L ‘Epidemic out of control’ for black male teens Member Profile . . .3 Meet Linda Weiner, MSW from St. Louis, Mo. Book Reviews . . . .7 Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician and more HIV diagnoses increased 12 percent annually between 20012006. “We’re worried,” says David Ernesto Munar, vice president of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. “The trend data has confirmed our worst fears.” Other distressing news soon followed. In August, the CDC announced that it was wrong about the number of new infections in the U.S. There were actually about 56,000 people infected with HIV in 2006 — not 40,000 as previously estimated. Who’s getting hit the hardest? The CDC notes that the most affected groups were young black men who have sex with men (MSMs), white MSMs in their 30s and 40s and Hispanic MSMs. (Overall, MSMs account for 53 percent continued on page 4 News of Members . . . . . . .11 Rosenzweig hired as interim ED at SSSS Quick Hits: Sex in the News . . . . . . .12 Infidelity rates increase Educational Opportunities . . .15 AASECT Winter Institute scheduled for Jan. 9–11 Chart courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Contemporary Sexuality - December 2008 Contents Member Profile Book Reviews News of Members Quck Hits: Sex in the News Educational Opportunities

Contemporary Sexuality - December 2008

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