{"id":36826,"date":"2010-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/07\/16\/havin-the-talk-with-public-healths-dr-fisher\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T05:00:00","slug":"havin-the-talk-with-public-healths-dr-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/07\/16\/havin-the-talk-with-public-healths-dr-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Havin’ ‘The Talk’ with public health’s Dr. Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/TABLE>Christopher Fisher, Ph.D., talks about sex in a matter-of-fact, non-judgmental way. It wasn’t always easy until he learned to teach and counsel youth about sex 20 years ago while in college.<\/p>\n

“Once you get beyond the snickers, giggles and embarrassment, sex is really quite fascinating,” he said.<\/p>\n

Assistant professor of health promotion, social and behavioral health in UNMC’s College of Public Health, Dr. Fisher is trained in community-based participatory research (CBPR), sexuality education, sexual health, gender and human sexuality.<\/p>\n

He came to UNMC last year by way of San Francisco and Bloomington, Ind., where he began his education at Indiana University in business and marketing. Later, he returned to the Midwestern city — home of the famous Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction — to complete his studies in sexuality and public health.<\/p>\n

The subject of sex, he’s finding, is a double-edged sword. There’s a lot of interest, but an enormous amount of ignorance, as illustrated by questions he’s been asked:
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