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We've researched and found a number of sites that we find to be valuable
resources. Please click on a category below to find what you need.
General Sexual Health:
There are many excellent resources out there on the web, but we'd be remiss
if we didn't start with our own Sexperts Blog site. It serves
as an anonymous outlet for the Dartmouth College community, catering to all
facets of their healthy sexuality needs! You are welcome to browse the
information, or ask us a question!
The Guttmacher Institute advances
sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social
science research, policy analysis and public education designed to generate new
ideas, encourage enlightened public debate, promote sound policy and program
development and, ultimately, inform individual decision making. Includes
extensive state-by-state information regarding policies and laws around sexual
and reproductive health.
Sexuality Information and Education
Council of the US (SIECUS). This organization provides sexuality
information for teens, parents, schools, religious institutions and policy
makers.
The Sexual Health Network is dedicated
to providing easy access to sexuality information, education, support, and
other resources. It includes sections on Men’s & Women’s Sexual Health,
Love and Relationships, Sexuality Education, Disability & Chronic
Conditions, STIs, Sexual Health Resources and Shopping.
The Coalition for Positive Sexuality
(CPS) is a grassroots direct-action volunteer group formed by high school
students and members of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), Queer
Nation (QN), Emergency Clinic Defense Coalition (ECDC), and No More Nice Girls.
The site’s purpose is twofold: first, to give teens the information they need
to take care of themselves and in so doing affirm their decisions about sex,
sexuality, and reproductive control; second, to facilitate dialogue in and out
of the public schools on condom availability and sex education.
GenteJoven is a program dedicated to
Spanish-speaking youth to promote reproductive and sexual health.
Smarter Sex promotes itself as the
"premier site on sexual health for college students". It’s everything you
wanted to know about sex- so don’t be afraid to ask! (This site is part of the
BACCHUS Network.)
It’s Your (Sex) Life: The content for this online Sexual Education/Health
booklet was provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation as part of an
ongoing public education partnership with MTV.
Just Say Yes is about having a
positive attitude towards sexuality -- gay, straight,bisexual or whatever. It's
about saying "yes" to sex you do want, and "no" to sex you don't. It says
there's nothing wrong with you if you decide to have sex, and nothing wrong
with you if you decide not to. Website also available en español
Website developed by UK’s
Department of Health to provide essential sexual health information.
NFPRHA is a non-profit membership
organization whose mission is to assure access to voluntary, confidential,
comprehensive, culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health
care services and to support reproductive freedom for all.
Planned Parenthood believes in
the fundamental right of each individual to manage his or her fertility,
regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, age, national origin, or residence. They have more than 860 health
centers nationwide and have a fairly extensive website which assists someone in
locating their nearest facility.
The Kinsey Institute is a
reputable source for up-to-date information on human sexuality.
This sexology website is a
rich resource for both historical and contemporary sexual information. Includes
free online course in Human Sexuality, WHO Reports, behavior surveys, history
of sexology and an extensive list of other special interest web pages.
EngenderHealth works to improve
the health and well-being of people in the poorest communities of the world.
They do this by sharing expertise in sexual and reproductive health. They
promote gender equity, advocate for sound practices and policies, and inspire
people to assert their rights to better, healthier lives.
Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions
efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about
their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the
field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to
adolescent sexual health.
Women's Sexual Health:
Founded in April of 2003, The Women's Sexual
Health Foundation (TWSHF) is a nonprofit corporation that supports a
multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of sexual health issues and serves
as an educational resource for both the lay public and healthcare
professionals.
To achieve reproductive freedom for women, the Feminist Women's Health Center provides
woman-centered healthcare and education, and advocates all options for all
women. Their health services and education expand women's choices and empower
women's decisions.
The mission of the Reproductive Health
Technologies Project (RHTP) is to advance the ability of every woman to
achieve full reproductive freedom with access to the safest, most effective,
and preferred methods for controlling her fertility and protecting her
health.
My Sistahs is a site by and for young women
of color to provide information and offer support on sexual and reproductive
health issues through education and advocacy.
Men's Sexual Health:
The Man Phone is a sexual health
website for men 19-24 years old.
Men's Sex Health: Trusted and
timely health information for men. Learn about erectile dysfunction, prostate
conditions, AIDS and HIV, penile implants, hair loss and more.
GLBTQ:
Youth Resource is a website that
offers support and resources for GLBTQ Youth.
The Federal Government’s source
for Women’s Health Information. Lesbians face unique challenges within the
health care system that can cause poorer mental and physical health. Many
doctors, nurses, and other health care providers have not had sufficient
training to understand the specific health experiences of lesbians, or that
women who are lesbians, like heterosexual women, can be healthy normal
females.
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is a
not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed
to national leadership in the fight against AIDS. In fulfilling this mission,
we will remain true to our heritage by fighting homophobia and affirming the
individual dignity of all gay men and lesbians.
Gay Health is the first health and
wellness site dedicated to LGBTQ men and women. Staffed by professionals within
the LGBTQ community, the site provides easy access to accurate, current and
vital health information.
IFGE advocates for freedom of gender
expression. They promote the understanding and acceptance of
All People: Transgender, Transsexual, Crossdresser, Agender, Gender Queer,
Intersex, Two Spirit, Drag King, Drag Queen, Queer, Straight, Butch,
Femme, Homosexual, Bisexual, Heterosexual, and of course - You!
Ambientejoven is a spanish-language
site for Latino/a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth,
featuring sexual and reproductive health and other Latino GLBTQ issues.
BiResource is an international
organization providing education about and support for bisexual and progressive
issues. Includes sections on Bisexual Resources, Pamphlets about bisexuality,
Bisexual Health and Bisexual Groups Listing Online.
The mission of American Institute of
Bisexulaity is to encourage, support and assist research, education and
public knowledge and awareness about bisexuality through programs likely to
make a material difference.
Transsexual.org is a site about Gender
Dysphoria and all of the complexities surrounding it. Discusses the questions
of “What it is. How it exists. What to do about it, and even some thoughts
about the Why of it too.”
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is
devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital
surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard
for male or female.
Sexual Pleasure
& Erotica:
SexInfo 101 is a site that strives to
be the “one stop spot” for sex tips and dating advice! Includes the following
sections: Sex Tips (alternative sex, foreplay, improving sex, new to sex,
pleasing wo/men, sex toys), Sex Positions, Sexual Health, Message Boards and
Sex Polls. The site is pleasure focused, but only discusses hetero sex.
Good Vibrations is a diverse, woman-focused
retailer providing access to sex-positive products and accurate sex information
in order to enhance our customers' sex lives and to promote healthy attitudes
about sex.My Pleasure
Babeland is a store that opened in 1993
in response to the lack of women-friendly sex shops. The store offers top
quality products and most of all information and encouragement to women who
want to explore their sexuality.
My Pleasure has an online store
which sells sex toys for men and women. The site has a wonderful educational
component to it as well.
The Better Sex website by the Sinclair
Institute is the leading source of sexual health products for adults who want
to improve the quality of intimacy and sex in their relationships.
Eve’s Garden was created to empower women
to celebrate their sexuality as a positive, nourishing and creative force in
their lives. An outgrowth of the Women’s Rights Movement, Eve’s Garden seeks to
erase the sense of shame and guilt experienced by countless women as a result
of a society that historically condemns the sexual nature of women as sinful.
Our version of “Eve” is a transformation from a fallen, shamed woman to a
strong, powerful woman proud of her strength, sensitivity, and sexuality.
The Erotica Readers & Writers
Association, dedicated to readers and writers of erotica since 1996, is an
international community of women and men interested in the provocative world of
erotica and sexuality. We host an active e-mail discussion list for readers and
authors, a monthly newsletter, and a Blog. Their website serves as a resource
site for original erotic fiction, articles and commentaries, calls for
submissions, and publishing opportunities. For sensualists, they list a wide
variety of adult movies, offer sex toy information, and provide an adult forum
focusing on sexual issues, activities and relationships.
Clean Sheets is a weekly magazine
devoted to encouraging and publishing quality erotic fiction, poetry, and art,
providing honest information and thoughtful commentary on sexuality to the
public, and fostering an ongoing discussion of sexuality in the lives of
individuals and in a global society.
STI's:
The American Social Health Association
is a non-profit organization that has advocated on behalf of patients to help
improve public health outcomes since 1914. They have extensive sexually
transmitted disease information. You will find the facts, the support, and the
resources to answer your questions, find referrals, join support groups, and
get access to in-depth information about sexually transmitted diseases.
The CDC National Prevention
Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference, referral, and
distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases
(STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes,
stocks, and disseminates materials and information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB.
All NPIN services are designed to facilitate sharing of information and
resources on education and prevention services, published materials, research
findings, and trends among users
The CDC offers
current STD information, fact sheets, statistics and more on the latest
trends of a variety of health issues in the US. This page discusses
specifically SITs.
HIV/AIDS:
The AIDS Education Global information
System (AEGiS.org) is a nonprofit organization that was established in
response to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic. They seek to facilitate access to
current patient/clinician information, specific to HIV/AIDS and preserve for
future generations a global history of the pandemic with our historical news
and treatment database.
US National Library of Medicine:
HIV/AIDS Information.
Kaisernetwork.org
provides four daily online reports regarding AIDS/HIV-- summaries of news
stories with links to the original articles and a fully searchable
archive.
Formed in 1971, Family Health
International is a leader among nonprofit international public health
organizations, managing research and field activities in more than 70 countries
to meet the public health needs of some of the world's most vulnerable
people.
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS, brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN
system organizations to the global AIDS response.
HPV Vaccine:
In-depth product information by the
designers and distributors of the HPV Vaccine.
The CDC’s
sponsored website for HPV Vaccine questions and answers.
Contraception:
Helpful chart for birth
control comparisons.
Updated descriptions
of 29 contraceptives and other reproductive choices for women. These
descriptions are brief, presenting the most important educational
messages.
There are many birth control options available today. Oral contraceptives (the
Pill) is one of those options, proven to be over 99% effective when used
correctly. This is an online guide
about “the pill.”
Guided by a National Advisory Panel that includes experts in the fields of
contraception, family planning, and reproductive health, Contraception Online offers many
educational resources including a Slide library (power point presentations),
The Contraception Report newsletter and patient information educational
handouts.
BirthControl.com maintains a current
health library that covers topics such as the contraceptive patch, birth
control side effects, options on choices for birth control pills, and
discussions on the use of condoms.
Emergency Contraception:
Plan B's
company website that explains what it is, how to get it, and how to take
it.
Basic information on the “morning after
pill.”
Learn how with widespread awareness and accessibility Emergency Birth Control Pills
could prevent as 1.7 million unintended pregnancies and 800,000 abortions each
year in the US.
Princeton’s Emergency Contraception
website.
Abortion:
Abortion Clinics OnLine (ACOL) is a
directory service comprised of websites of over 400 providers of abortion
services and other reproductive healthcare.
The Center for Reproductive
Rights is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting
and defending women’ reproductive rights, worldwide.
For more than 30 years, NARAL Pro-Choice
America has been the nation's leading advocate for privacy and a woman's right
to choose by fighting to protect the pro-choice values of freedom and
privacy.
The National Abortion Federation (NAF)
is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and
Canada. They believe that women should be trusted to make private medical
decisions in consultation with their health care providers. NAF currently
offers quality training and services to abortion providers and unbiased
information and referral services to women.
Exhale was created by and for women who
have abortions. Exhale offers a free, After-Abortion Talkline that
provides emotional support, resources and information. The talkline is
available to women and girls who have had abortions and to their partners,
friends, allies and family members. All calls are completely confidential and
counselors are non-judgmental.
Abstinence:
Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth
champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions
about their reproductive and sexual health. This link focuses on one of those
decisions: abstinence.
The SmarterSex.org
website is maintained by the BACCHUS Network. It is designed specifically
for college students! Their abstinence section contains useful information for
students who make the choice to remain abstinent. Other sections of this
website contain "everything you want to know about sex" - for when you are
ready.
Sexual Assault:
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National
Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. Among its
programs, RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at
1.800.656.HOPE.
DaneNet Offers
general Sexual Assault information and links.
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