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Teaching Young Women about Sexuality

My son will turn twelve next week. Last Saturday he held a girl’s hand as he escorted her to the center of the gym in a Stockton Stake Center to learn the Waltz. “Were you nervous?”  I asked. He wasn’t.  “But she was. I could tell.”  And then I remembered being a twelve-year-old girl, wearing [...]

Trying to Cure the Seven Year Itch? Scratch It. Often.

 Today’s Up Close post comes from Nan, a cheery and clever woman who delights in her expedition. In her words: “I spent the first 18 years of my life in the same house and ward in Northern Utah. In the decade and a half since, I’ve had 30 different addresses in places as remote as [...]

Filling My Senses

It’s getting warmer here in Australia, Spring slowly rolling into Summer. The rosellas are flirty, all coy glances and side shimmies towards each other, working out who they’re going to fly away with. More skin is being bared in town as bikinis and boardies reappear after winter’s chill. Sand sugars calves, bellies and shoulders, enticing me [...]

Let me tell you about the birds & the bees…

I started my lecture that Thursday morning by polling the students in the upper division family science course I was teaching at BYU. “How many of you had ‘the talk’ with your parents?” 25% of my students in my raised their hands. “How many had homes where sexuality was discussed openly and on repeated occasions?” Again 25% of my class [...]

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