Web Links

Women's Sexuality Resource Center
	Finding accurate and sex-positive information about sexuality can be a challenge to people of all ages and sexual identities. Two women in Madison, Wisconsin, one a social worker and the other a physician, have teamed up to create A Woman's Touch Sexuality Resource Center. In addition to selling products related to sexual pleasure and health, the women create seminars for constituencies ranging from senior citizens to medical students to sorority members. They provide information through two on-line columns," Ask Dr. Myrtle" and "Ask Aphrodite." Both are accessible through this link. ( http://www.a-womans-touch.com/cgi-bin/awt/awt_customer_service.html )

Sexuality Information and Education Council
	The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States is one of the country's oldest non-profit organizations dedicated to affirming that sexuality is a "healthy and natural part of living." Read about sexuality across the lifespan at this informative site. ( http://www.siecus.org/ )

Declaration of Sexual Rights
	The World Association of Sexuality has drafted a Declaration of Sexual Rights. You can examine it at this website. ( http://www.siecus.org/inter/inte0006.html )

Planned Parenthood
	Planned Parenthood has served generations of people by providing reproductive health care and information. The organization's website features the latest public policy news related to sexuality. Find out how your life may be affected by laws regulating sexual behavior. ( http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ )

Forced Sterilization
	Forced sterilization of minority women occurs in a number of places around the world. One research report, "Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom," based on 230 in-depth interviews with Roma women in eastern Slovakia, documented this atrocity in Eastern Europe. According to the two human rights organizations that conducted the research, there has been a backlash against its authors and their interviewees following the publication of that report. ( http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1243 )

The Eugenics Movement
	The eugenics movement in the United States resulted in the forced sterilization of both women and men identified by physicians or social workers as "mentally defective," insane, or constitutionally undesirable. Go to the ABC News website to read about this troubling history-and think about its relationship to current public policy and sentiment. ( http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000322_eugenics_feature.html )