Our Next Meeting

The next meeting of West Dorset Humanists will be held on Thursday, July 28th 7.30 at the Wessex Royale Hotel, 32 High St. West, Dorchester DT1 1UP.

A talk by Jo Adams former Chair of the National Sex Education Forum and member of the Labour Government's Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV. Almost all world religions make rigid rules about what is and is not acceptable in terms of our experience and expression of sex. At the moment, for example, there is an active lobby pressing for Abstinence Education with young people despite the lack of evidence of the success of such approaches. This talk will explore what a more positive, holistic and person-centred model of sex and sexuality might look like.

Jo developed the non-abstinence based “Let’s Leave it Till Later” programme of national training supporting young people to delay early sex now used throughout the UK and also in Ireland. She worked as a consultant for the Department of Health on strategies to reduce teenage pregnancy, to prevent HIV and STIs and to promote positive sexual health. Jo is the author of a number of books related to self-esteem and to the promotion of positive sexual health and ten years ago was awarded an MBE for her services to sexual health work nationally.

Free entry (£2 donation suggested).