Sex education has been an important part of my life. I can still remember the first time a teacher taught me about it in 5th grade. I remember in 10th grade, kids would hand me their questions that they were too embarrassed to ask in class. When I was in college, I handed out on condoms in the breezeway and gave demonstrations on safer sex. In my adult life, I spent a few years working for a nonprofit that assisted Hollywood with sexual health issues. I know it is important, but others think if we sweep it under the rug it will go away. Sex has been around since the Adam & Eve, and it ain’t going away as much as people want it to. Yet, many parents can’t talk to their kids about it. To make matters worse, they don’t want schools to talk about it either. So where are they are going to learn to protect themselves?
Yesterday, John Oliver took on that issue on his HBO show Last Week Tonight and he elaborated about it better than I ever can. The way he talks about it makes sense, the way I express it comes out with anger. How can states tell kids, it is not OK to be gay? Or tell them that abstinence is the only way. It is the best way, not the only way. We need to protect the next generation. Because let’s be honest how many of you waited until your wedding night? How many of you were prepared for your first time? Don’t you want your loved ones to know how to use a condom, so that their risk of an STD and/or pregnancy is greatly reduced. What happens if you don’t talk to your kids about sex? I don’t maybe something like what allegedly happened to The Duggars.
I am not saying that kids should have sex, I am saying they should be aware of their options. Talking to kids about sex doesn’t mean that they are going to run to do it. It just means they will be prepared when they do.
Are you sick of waiting for the kids to go to sleep before you can watch Game of Thrones? Well George RR Martin came up with a cartoon version of his hit drama that you can watch with your kids and he debuted the trailer via Conan. That’s right, now there is Lil Thrones! So instead of staying up late on Sunday nights for all your blood and t!ts, you can wake up early and watch it on Saturday mornings. It’s not like your kids let you sleep anyways! Life is good again!
Just two days after the season premiere of Game of Thrones was the most watched show on HBO since The Sopranos’ finale, the network announced that they picked up the much buzzed show for 2 more seasons. Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming, said, “Game of Thrones is a phenomenon like no other.†That is putting it midly. How many people were seeing red after The Red Wedding?
Wonder if the Dragons had something to do with the two season renewal? I wouldn’t mess with them.
BTW now that the show will be around for a fifth and sixth season, I think I will finally binge watch it on HBO Go. That is if I can get on the App that seems to crash a lot.
Everyone bow your heads down for a moment of silence because Variety is reporting that Cinemax is cleaning up its act.
Most horny teenagers, lonely people and frustrated married couples who can’t sleep in the middle of the night, find themselves tuning to Cinemax for the soft core p0rn movies. It is a right of passage for teens and the only reason to subscribe the movie channel. But cum 2014 that is all going to change.
Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president of programming, told the trade, “The hope is that I don’t hear ‘Skinemax’ any time after our original programming — what I’ll call the primetime originals — start to really take over the (lineup).â€
Nooooooooooooooooooooo. WTF is he thinking? That is Cinemax’s staple. It has been there since the network was just a baby. It is what the people want. I mean how many times have you been lying in bed, too lazy to get up and go to the computer, and put on Skinemax to help you have sweet dreams. And now this guy is taking that away from us. Why? Did he not get to experience all that the network has to offer him. Does he thinks Girls turns on anyone sexually besides the less that the million people that watch that overrated show every week.
We want our soft core p0rn! We deserve our Skinemax! What do we want? Sexless sex! When do we want it? After midnight! What are going to do if we don’t get it? Unsubscribe! And boycott those programs he thinks will turn the network around.
So tonight and every night for the rest of the year, grab your tissues and toys, put on Skinemax and let him know we want it, we want it real bad.
Save our Skinemax!!!
Tonight at 6:30p HBO debuts the documentary Don’t Divorce Me! Kids’ Rules for Parents on Divorce and every parent needs to watch it. Whether you are already divorced, thinking about getting one or you are happily married, you need to watch this because the doc let’s the kids tell their stories what it is like to be the children of divorce. It is their perspective on the issue and only theirs.
We all know someone who has gotten divorced and how the kids have suffered from it, but since we are the adults we don’t concentrate on their needs. This documentary is the kids’ experiences in their own words. How it hurts them that their parents are no longer together. That they feel it is their fault their parents broke up. How they hate to travel long distances to be with the other parent. How they hate when their parents put them in the middle of the fight. How they don’t feel that they are loved as much as after their parents divorce. But isn’t only their words that show what they go through, it is their sad faces that tell the true story.
I am single with no kids, but I have seen some of my friends really f*ck up their kids with their divorce. So much so that I called all of them and said you have to watch this. Divorce is not easy on the adult, and sometime they forget how hard it is on their kids. This special will make them stop and think how they are handling it. It will also show them that kids know more than the you think when it comes to the situation.
Kudos to Rosie O’Donnell and Amy Schatz for coming up with this poignant documentary and HBO for airing it. In a society where most marriages end in divorce, it is about time we heard from the kids and how it effects them. And it’s about time the parents got schooled by the kids on how divorce impacts them.
Since this is an HBO special, it will re-air several times in case you miss the premiere. Below are the other times for when this important documentary will air and on what network you can see it on. So mark down the times and let every parent you know that they have to watch this special. It really is one of the most important 30 minutes that any parent can ever watch.
Other HBO playdates: Sept. 26 (7:30 a.m.) and 30 (1:30 p.m.), and Oct. 13 (8:00 a.m.), 19 (8:00 a.m.) and 25 (6:00 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Sept. 25 (6:00 a.m.) and Oct. 9 (7:30 a.m.), 18 (7:00 a.m.) and 27 (6:00 a.m.)
HBO Family playdates: Sept. 23 (6:30 p.m., 3:25 a.m.), 26 (3:30 p.m.) and 29 (noon) and Oct. 4 (2:45 p.m.), 9 (9:00 p.m.), 14 (1:40 a.m.), 17 (3:30 p.m.), 20 (6:30 p.m.) and 29 (1:35 p.m., 5:25 a.m.)
