Sex and Sensibility

Sexuality is a topic that can feel daunting, if not downright overwhelming. And yet it’s a topic that we cannot afford to evade or ignore in today’s world. I have been teaching human sexuality education to parents, teachers, and schoolchildren for three decades. I believe it is possible to understand the universal needs of children and adolescents - from infancy through the teen years - and to master the parenting and teaching skills needed to meet these needs in the most helpful ways. I hope you will find this site and my book helpful resources and that you will come away enlightened and empowered to become better parents and teachers.
- Debbie Roffman

"Abstain, Yes. But With Your Eyes Wide Open."
Debbie Roffman in The Washington Post, Sunday, September 2, 2001: "Pitching comprehensive sex education as the opposite, in fact the enemy, of abstinence is false, misleading and counterproductive, and that as long as we in the United States continue to polarize this issue, we'rekidding ourselves if we think we're doing well by our kids."

A Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior. Report of the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher. "The most important thing that has happened in 30 years." [Debbie Roffman, in the Los Angeles Times, 7/3/01]

Deborah Roffman's second book, But How Did I Get In There: Talking to Your Young Child About Sex was published by Perseus Books in April 2002! More...

Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex, was published in January, 2001, by Perseus Books Group.

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Sex and Sensibility is a Barnes & Noble.Com "Recommended Book," and a Number One Amazon.Com "Featured Selection" in Parenting and Families.

Sex & Sensibility attempts to help us reshape the ways in which we deal with our children, from toddlers to 20-year-olds, with respect to sex and sexuality. It offers ways to see, ways to listen, and ways to talk and behave so that our children learn how to make wise and happy choices about all things sexual.