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The Sexualitree: A Model

June 23, 2026 Dr. Karen Rayne

The Sexualitree is a conceptual model of sexuality that is designed to be interactive and personalizable. The ways that you can use it in classroom and clinical settings are extensive, and depend on your participants/patients (their age, existing knowledge of the range of ways that people are sexual, openness to…

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December 13, 2024 Nyk Rayne

The political climate around inclusive, medically accurate sexuality education at school is changing and will probably continue to get worse at the federal level over the next four years. (This aim is specifically spelled out in Project 2025 (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise, notable pages include 4, 62, and 226.) And while there are…

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Explaining Corona Virus to Kids

March 27, 2020 Nyk Rayne

Times are crazy, weird, hard, all of the above! Here at UN|HUSHED we write curriculum on hard topics the easy way, sex ed done right. The thing is, sex ed is more than just “sex”. It’s about relationships, communication, and so much more. That’s why we’re all about medically accurate…

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2019 A year in review

December 9, 2019 Nyk Rayne

Here at UN|HUSHED we’ve had a very busy 2019. So busy we didn’t have time to write much in our blog to tell you all about it. Funny how that works isn’t it? So let’s dive in to what we’ve done and what we’re doing… JANUARY We kicked off the…

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Talking Together: Get a Foot in the Door, Not a Door in the Face

January 28, 2017 Ryan Dillon

As humans we communicate in many different ways and as technology changes our communication pathways will expand and become easier but complicated at the same time. What do I mean by that? With the rise of texting and social media it lessens the need for a key component to communication:…

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The holidays have arrived!

December 3, 2016 Dr. Karen Rayne

The warm yummmies that come with the holiday season are so many, unless they aren’t. I love the holidays, for many reasons. The most prominent for me is the realization that the days are going to start getting longer again and the warm spring is something to look forward to. For…

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First Moon Parties, humiliation, and humor

June 21, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

This ad has been circulating recently, and many people are highly amused. There are are also many outraged people. I get both sides on this one, because I think there’s both really good and really bad here. So let’s watch and then break it down a little bit: The good:…

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What are they doing now?

May 29, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

One of the various issues with the Disney Princess line – and, in fact, with many stories and movies and television shows for children – is that they reach this point of “and then they all lived Happily Ever After!” It’s such a nice and tidy ending. It’s so dramatically…

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When we sexualize the young…

February 18, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

Parents: Your messages to your children about clothes, sexiness, etc, needs to be consistent across their childhoods. There’s not one (more permissive) message that’s right for babies and another (less permissive) message that’s right for preteens and teenagers. I took this picture at the local Walgreens this morning. I’m going…

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Why comprehensive sex ed? Here's why.

October 9, 2013 Dr. Karen Rayne

Comprehensive sexuality education is not limited to reproductive or risk-management approaches. Nor is it a crazy free-for-all of sexual information. It is a considered, developmentally appropriate approach to adult-moderated peer conversations about issues of sex and sexuality. It is life changing in ways that are often unexpected and beautiful. I’ve…

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