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Amy is available to write books, columns, articles, reports, and other publications.  Interested in finding out more?  Have a product you want Amy to help you develop?  If so, email amy@sexedsolutions.com.

Highlights include

Birthing Tips from the Experts, 2008

Top 5 Pregnancy Sex Questions Answered, 2008

Article published on www.pregnancyandbaby.com.

The Scoop on Sex: Teen Peer Educators Tell All, 2008

Don't Believe the Hype: How the Media Distort Sexuality, 2007

Developed lesson plans as part of a toolkit for Frontline: The Age of AIDS, a PBS documentary, 2007

The HPV Vaccine: A Sexual Health Breakthrough, 2006

Article published by Planned Parenthood Federation of America at www.teenwire.com.

10 Things to Know Before You Get in Bed, 2006

Article published in Sex Week at Yale: The Magazine.

Ask Amy: Expert Advice on Parents' Pressing Questions about Sexuality, 2005

Article published in Tweens & Teens News: The PARENTGUIDE for 10 years & up, October issue.

 Ask Amy, 2005—Present

Q & A column to help parents raise sexually healthy children.

Dating & Love: Helping Tweens Define a Healthy Relationship, 2004

Article published in Tweens News: The PARENTGUIDE for 8 to 12-year-olds, December issue.

On the Tube: Talking with Kids About What They See on TV, 2004

Co-authored article published in PARENTGUIDE for 8 to 12-year-olds, May issue. 

Sex Class: Talking With Your Tween About Sexuality Can Help, Not Hurt, 2004

Article published in Tweens News: The PARENTGUIDE for 8 to 12-year-olds, May issue. 

Let’s Talk About Sex: Speaking with your Tween about Sexuality and Puberty, 2003

Article published in Tweens News, The PARENTGUIDE for 8 to 12-year-olds, September issue. 

Innovative Approaches to Increase Parent-Child Communication about Sexuality: Their Impact and Examples from the Field, 2002

SIECUS publication for educators, policymakers, parents/caregivers, and others; compiled Part II.

Providing Information on Sexuality: Librarians Can Help Youth Become Sexually Healthy Adults, 2002

Article in Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, Volume 15, Number 2.

Cosmopolitan Magazine's Online Sex Columnist, 2002-2006

Known as Cosmo's Carnal Counselor, wrote weekly sex Q & A column for iVillage/Cosmopolitan.com, answering over 125 questions from women.

Families Are Talking/La familia habla, 2001-2005

Eleven newsletters that help parents talk with their children about sexuality issues.  Topics include: media; family diversity; puberty; sexuality education; HIV/AIDS; abstinence; body image and self-esteem; friendship, dating, and love; sexual orientation; abuse, harassment, and assault; and childhood sexual development.

Go Ask Alice, Columbia University's Q & A Internet Service, 2000-2002

Wrote over 75 answers to sexuality-related questions.

Filling the Gaps: Hard-to-Teach Topics in Sexuality Education, 1998

SIECUS manual that provides lesson plans for eight hard-to-teach topics in sexuality education--abstinence; condom use; diversity; pregnancy options; safer sex; sexual behavior; sexual identity and orientation; and sexuality and society.

The Source: The Bimonthly Newsletter of SIECUS' Mary S. Calderone Library, 1998-2006

Numerous SIECUS Annotated Bibliographies and Fact Sheets, 1996-2004

Recent publication acknowledgements include:

A Piece of Cake: Recipes for Female Sexual Pleasure

Melinda Gallagher, M.A. and Emily Scarlet Kramer

 

Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent’s Guide to

Raising Sexually Healthy Teens

Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H.

 

But How’d I Get There in the First Place?

Deborah M. Roffman

 

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives:

A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships, 3rd Edition

Ruth Bell

 

From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to

Raising Sexually Healthy Children

Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H.

 

Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality

Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, and Debra W. Haffner

 

Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Kindergarten through 12th Grade, 3rd Edition

SIECUS

 

Pleasure: A Woman’s Guide to Getting the Sex

You Want, Need, and Deserve

Hilda Hutcherson, M.D.

 

Sex Ed 101: A Collection of Sex Education Lessons

Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey

 

Streetwise to Sex-Wise: Sexuality Education for

High-Risk Youth

Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey

 

Talk About Sex

SIECUS

 

The Book of the Penis

Maggie Paley

 

The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips

Rebecca Chalker

 

Wet Dreams and False Images: A Documentary Film

Study Guide

Jesse Epstein

 

What Your Mother Never Told You about Sex

Hilda Hutcherson, M.D.