Podcast series
will focus on comprehensive sex education

Jackstreet Media and Aldagon Resources on Tuesday announced a new on-demand radio series that aims to address ineffective sex education programs in schools by providing information about condom use and contraception to high school and college students returning to classes this fall. The series, currently airing on the Internet radio program "HIV and Me Talk Radio," available online at www.hivradio.com, features interviews with teens and young adults talking about their sexual education, practices, attitudes, and experiences with safer and not-so-safe sex.

The program, created and hosted by Kozby Kritzer, includes a wide spectrum of guests between the ages of 18 and 27, including sexually active college students, youths practicing abstinence, peer-to-peer sex education activists, and HIV-positive young men and women, as well as HIV-negative people who date them.

Nearly every guest in this series sounds the same note--that their high school sex education programs contained very little reference to sex itself and virtually no information about how to have sex safely to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, says Kritzer. This interview series serves to highlight how the conservative viewpoints of educators and administrators have eliminated safer-sex education in our schools, putting our young people more at risk of getting HIV and AIDS than ever before, Kritzer continues.

Recognizing the increased reach of new technologies among teens and young adults, this radio series is available on-demand for free at www.hivradio.com as either streaming audio or through XML for podcasting and RSS feeds. Two episodes of the series were launched Tuesday, and a new episode will be added weekly. (Advocate.com)