Dr. Schroeder is frequently asked to write about and comment on sexuality-related issues in the media. In each of the following categories are a few examples of these interviews and commentaries:
Boys & Sex Ed
Parenting Issues
Porn: Impacts and Implications
STD & HIV/AIDS Prevention
Sexuality Education
Sex Ed and Technology
Sexuality and Society
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Teens and Sexuality
Boys and Sex Ed
“How We Can Improve Sex Ed for Boys.” The Good Men Project. Interview about how sexuality education can better resonate with and serve boys.
“Could Sex Ed Prevent Another Steubenville?” Answer. Blog post about how sexuality education programming can help reduce the incidence of rape and sexual assault, if it is comprehensive in scope and combats gender role stereotypes.
Parenting Issues
“Teaching Kids about Consent,” The Lisa Show. In this episode, Dr. Schroeder discusses why it is so important for parents to discuss sexuality and consent with their kids at home, and how to have these talks openly and comfortably.
“How to Talk with Your Kids about Online Porn,” The Sexology Podcast. Dr. Nazanin Moali and Dr. Schroeder discuss what the potential concerns of children viewing porn, and what parents and caregivers can do to provide guidance and keep the lines of communication open.
“Parenting 101: You Want Me to Say WHAT? Talking About Sex With Your Kids,” MOMeoMagazine.com. Blog post providing tips to parents on how they can most effectively and appropriately talk to their kids about sexuality.
“How to Talk to Your Kids About Pornography,” The New York Times. Offers advice on how parents can talk with their children about sexually explicit content online through five different scenarios where parents are speaking with their children about encountering porn online.
“Can Your Child Find Porn on Your Phone?” The New York Times. How families can manage children’s access to sexually explicit content online.
“So How Do We Talk About This?” The New York Times. Article about how parents handle speaking with their children who have viewed porn.
Porn: Impacts and Implications
“How to Talk with Your Kids about Online Porn,” The Sexology Podcast. Dr. Nazanin Moali and Dr. Schroeder discuss what the potential concerns of children viewing porn, and what parents and caregivers can do to provide guidance and keep the lines of communication open.
“Help! My Teen’s Watching Online Porn!” CNN. Interview with Kelly Wallace about what parents can do when they find their children have viewed porn online.
“Porn’s Impact on Modern Sexuality.” Air Talk with Larry Mantle. Interview about the impact that viewing porn has on adult relationships and marriages.
“How to Talk to Your Kids About Pornography,” The New York Times. Offers advice on how parents can talk with their children about sexually explicit content online through five different scenarios where parents are speaking with their children about encountering porn online.
“Can Your Child Find Porn on Your Phone?” The New York Times. How families can manage children’s access to sexually explicit content online.
“So How Do We Talk About This?” The New York Times. Article about how parents handle speaking with their children who have viewed porn.
STD & HIV/AIDS Prevention
“What Happens When We Make HPV (Or Any STI) The Punchline Of A Joke,” HuffPost. In this piece, Dr. Schroeder emphasizes the important role of parent-child communication in reducing stigma about STDs.
“What You Need to Know about STDs,” TeenVogue. Highlights the importance of educating teens about STDs, safer sex and communicating with partners about these issues.
“Republican Debate Reignites Controversy Over HPV Vaccine,” Education Week. Commentary on the debate over whether girls should be required to get vaccinated against HPV, an STD that can lead to cervical cancer.
Sexuality Education
“How the Bad Sex Ed You Got in High School Is Still Hurting You,” Cosmopolitan. In this in-depth piece, Dr. Schroeder joins other sexuality experts in highlight how harmful abstinence-only-until-heterosexual-marriage programs are, and highlights how they are still being taught in schools across the United States.
“What are the Goals of Sexuality Education? Probably Not What You Think,” ETR. In this blog post, Dr. Schroeder and her Sexuality Education: Theory and Practice co-author, Dr. Clint Bruess, discuss how sexuality education should be about far more than preventing pregnancy and/or infections.
“When Should Kids Start Learning About Sex and Consent?” The Atlantic. Dr. Schroeder discusses when sexuality education should begin, and what it should include from the earliest ages.
“Believing in Young People,” ETR’s Smart Solutions School Health. Dr. Schroeder writes about parents and well-trained educators partnering to provide age-appropriate and medically accurate sexuality education that supports young people in making healthy, well-thought-out decisions about sexuality.
“Teen Birth Rates Plummet.” The Kathleen Dunn Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. Dr. Schroeder speaks with John Munson about the expansion of comprehensive sexuality education programs in California and the drop in teen birth rates.
“Sex Ed to the Rescue.” HuffPost Live. Dr. Schroeder joins a panel of guests to discuss how educating young people about sexuality can help prevent sexual assault.
“Making the Grade: How Should Nevada Teach Sex Ed?” Nevada Public Radio. Panel discussion about a Nevada bill that would require that age-appropriate and medically accurate sexuality education be taught in schools.
“Ab-Ed Moves Ahead,” Salon.com. Draws attention to the inclusion of an abstinence-only program in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-endorsed list of evidence-based programs, though the abstinence-only program provides no information on puberty, anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases or sexual behaviors and was found to be ineffective, according to a Congressionally mandated study of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
“New National Standards Address Sexuality Education for All Grades,” Education Week. Article on the National Sexuality Education Standards—created by Advocates for Youth, Answer and SIECUS— details the standards, which include suggestions for age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education beginning in elementary school.
“Spewing Misinformation and Ideology, A New York Times Op-Ed Spreads Unfounded Fears About Sex Ed,” RHRealityCheck.org. Response to an op-ed piece in The New York Times that counters some of the claims it makes about the sexuality education plans by the New York City Department of Education.
“It Takes More Than a Month: Incorporating LGBTQ Issues Into Sex Ed,” answer.rutgers.edu. Blog post offering some suggestions about how educators can incorporate more information about LGBTQ themes into their curricula, including both sexual orientation and gender identity.
“Beyond a Public Health Model of Sexuality Education,” answer.rutgers.edu. Blog post responding to an article by former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders addressing the importance of comprehensive sexuality education for grades K-12, including what age-appropriate lessons mean and how they can encourage overall health.
“How Do We Solve a Problem Like the P-Word? Should School-Based Sex Education Address Pleasure?” answer.rutgers.edu. Blog post discussing the debate around whether pleasure should be included in sexuality education.
“And the Debate Over Abstinence Education Continues.” Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY radio. Dr. Schroeder joins University of Pennsylvania professor and researcher, John Jemmott, Ph.D., to discuss the data he published describing some positive outcomes from a community-based abstinence education program conducted with 6th and 7th graders.
“Could Sex Ed Prevent Another Steubenville?” Answer. Blog post about how sexuality education programming can help reduce the incidence of rape and sexual assault, if it is comprehensive in scope and combats gender role stereotypes.
Sex Ed and Technology
“YouTube Sex Ed Videos Make ‘The Talk’ More Accessible, But Here’s What Experts Want You To Know,” Bustle. Acknowledging there are many benefits to providing online resources related to sexuality and relationships, Dr. Schroeder shares some concerns about the accuracy of the information shared, and whether the people providing the information are trained to do so.
“Text in the City: Medical Professionals Use Social Media to Reach Teens on Sexual Health,” RHRealityCheck.org. Story about how medical professionals and educators are using the power of technology to reach teens.
“Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text,” The New York Times. Article higlighting several resources for teens to access information about sexuality and relationships via the Internet and texting.
“Social Media Can Help Effectively Communicate With Teens About Sexual Health,” ThinkProgress.org. How social media can be used to reach teens where they are and to remain relevant to teens.
Sexuality and Society
“The Why Factor: Age of Consent Laws,” BBC. Dr. Schroeder discusses the history of age of consent laws around the world, and their impact on the young people they are intended to protect.
“Affirmative Consent Becomes Law.” Air Talk with Larry Mantle. Dr. Schroeder is a guest on this show that examines the potential impacts of CA’s new Affirmative Consent law, requiring students at federally funded colleges and universities to obtain active consent from a partner before having a sexual relationship with them.
“Punish First, Educate Later: South Carolina Lawmakers’ Approach to Teen Sexting is Backwards at Best,” RHRealityCheck.org. Commentary on proposed bills by South Carolina legislators that would make sexting a crime for minors (ages 12 to 17). Dr. Schroeder discusses the potential consequences of punishing a teen and then educating them, instead of ensuring that teens are educated about sexting and the law.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
“Chicago’s ‘Pregnant Men’ Ads: Flipping the Dialogue on Men and Teen Pregnancy Prevention,” RH RealityCheck. Addresses how teen pregnancy prevention campaigns, featuring pregnant teen guys, are well intentioned, but miss the mark in their attempt to involve and engage young men in teen pregnancy prevention.
“‘Act Like a Man’: Challenging Young Men’s Notions of Masculinity to Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy,” National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth. Commentary on reaching male learners more effectively with sexuality education and teen pregnancy prevention programming.
“Study: More Teenage Girls Using the Rhythm Method,” Religion News Service. Links a study’s findings to the need for more comprehensive sexuality education.
Teens and Sexuality
“The Importance of Having the Sex Talk with Teens.” HuffPost Live. In this segment, Dr. Schroeder participates in a panel conversation about the easy accessibility of porn online and the importance of parents speaking with their children about sexuality.
“New Research Blames Low-Income African American Women for Couples’ Contraceptive Choices,” RHRealityCheck.org. Dissection of a study that perpetuates myths about sexual behavior among low-income, African-American teenage girls.
“U.S. Teens, Young Adults ‘Doing It’ Less, Study Says,” The Associated Press. Commentary on a study released by the CDC showing that fewer young people are having sexual intercourse.
“Summer’s Eve ‘Hail to the V’ Ad Campaign: It Stinks,” answer.rutgers.edu. Reactions to a Summer’s Eve advertising campaign that appears to be clever but when further investigated, presents heterosexist and racist messages, in addition to the incorrect idea that douching is necessary for women to be “clean.”